I’m running a strain that has no fem seeds called Zambian or Zambian Copper which is a Southern African sativa. The seeds are regular so they could be fem or male but I wont know for months and months.
My question is if we get into the later months and I find out that its a male are there ways to harvest the pollin to use down the line outside of the normal way?
Also for those that do breed what goes into selecting the right plant to cross?
Thanks.
Plants grown from regular seeds typically reveal their sex around 6 weeks or so. If you have a separate grow space away from any females plants, I would recommend collecting the pollen from the male and store it in the freezer, I cut the pollen with 25% corn starch to help reduce the moisture. Collect several vials because once you pull it from the freezer that vial is done. Breeders generally grow several females and choose the female for structure, size, pheno expression etc… taking cuttings from that select female will also allow you self that plant for femized pollen to produce feminized seeds. I’ve been on this journey for over a year. I took 2 F1 land race strains and crossed them and will cross those plants back to the original male. Back crossing stabilizes the the next generation. Biggest advice I recommend is starting with stable genetics that have some solid history 
Panama Red pollen. I collected 7 vials
Kona Gold crossed with the Panama Red pollen
awsome man love this!
Appreciate that Grow Bro, a lot of adventures growing cannabis
If I can find a solid strain to cross with the Zambian I have the perfect name for it.
Lazy Bones (Named after the song of the same name by the Zambian band Witch)
Growing a plant that demonstrates good desirable traits.
Rot resistant helps in the PNW
I sacrificed my first grow crop for home grown seed acquisition.
Seeds are important, but in hindsight, good seeds are cheaper than growing weed for seeds. Personal seed recovery takes time and destroys each hosting bud.
Then, all buds must be ravaged for the seeds. Sharing becomes available, when you are not seed starved.
I found a rot resistant plant, from my seeds and another that clones dependably well.
Well said, OG, for sure.
@OGIncognito. Wow, havent heard Kona bud mentioned since my navy travels through Hawaii starting 1980. Have smoked Maui and Kona, wasnt cheap then.
Panama Red was a staple in Texas mid 70s.
Nice blasts from the past, so, how did these crosses turn out?
Right Brother, I’ve dropped a ton of regular seeds on the Kona Gold, Panama Red and Columbian Gold looking for candidates to cross. The 1st batch were the Kona’s crossed with Panama Red and got a zip lock baggie of seeds to drop down the road, I had these harvested and had to leave town for a few months. The Columbian Gold and Panama Red are being crossed naturally in the same tent and hopefully going well…I’ll find out when I get home this weekend 
I have 4 Order of the Ditch certificates for going through the canal in the early 80s, ship commissioned Pascagoula ms.
A brown paper bag, softball size, full of bud could be had for 25.00 of Panama Red. Even the canal workers tried to sell openly to sailors while going thru. Big no no then, chief said few years earlier, and you coukd have bought it and bobody cared.
The plane crashes on the Kitty Hawk and drugs in their systems prompted the navys first drug tests after i entered.
Nice crosses.
CVN-65, USS Enterprise, “Did the Ditch 1986” First USA Nuclear Carrier transiting the Suez Canal. We got ribbons for riding while working the cruise.
Fun Fact, My little sister is doing the Tiger Cruise from Hawaii CVN70, currently.
Her daughter, my Neice fly’s (back seater of E2D-14 years now).
I have the Safari to the Suez certificate. The year the USS Stark was hit. We were already in the canal when that happened, was given green light to continue world cruise. Hit Palma Mallorca Spain for a week. We gathered a few certificates for world cruise. Bunger texting, later.
Did you get shell back initiated
@OGIncognito. No polywogs in my family.
Curious, no ladies on warships during my time.
Wonder what the traditions are currently used.
Only women can whip women? Curious.
Right on Brother, you squids loved torturing us Marines during shell back initiation and hope that tradition is still alive 
The one jarhead in the family didnt retire military. Turned out to be smarter than older and younger brother, usn. He took his c130 prop specialist mos to Lockheed, and went to Saudi for about 10 yrs as flight engineer, inshort retired to fish the Rio Grande for big cats at 45. Yep, smarter.
Me and three (for sure) and possibly a fourth family member (just Married in).
100 years USN service between us.
Plus the V.V. / E-1 Grunt who retired USN at O6 with 44yrs.
I crossed the line 8 times, CVN/CV style in 35 years.
Amazingly, I even had one 40-hour Birthday.
I did the dateline, lost my birthday going. All birthdays of that month get steak and lobster and cake. I did not. Coming back, got my birthday two months later.
15 dateline crossing, two “short” “around” the world cruises (Pacific, IO, DGar-BIOT, Suez, Med, Atlantic and back to the Pacific. One Zero/Zero and one Zero/180 crossing.
No Blue Nose.
My oldest was the bublehead. The bluenose of the family.
Got a family members with E2D back-seater and another TWO with FA-18 pilot years. My claim to fame,
I was the family first, since WW2 to join the Navy.
Never needed my “one free” Courts Martial Defense, as offered upon entering the Navy