nuggs 2016

ruby fruit

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Just dip a paint brush or q tip in it and rub it all over the sesired branch of a fenale then wait for seeds i need to jump on em am running my last of plants
If i paintbrush it on its not gonna make the whole plant seed then just the branch yeah ?
What week of flower is best im in week 4 on a couple and week 1 on another
 

Smidge34

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I use a q-tip, but yeah just paint it on the individual pistils you want to pollinate and I generally tie a ribbon around the branch I pollinated.

Good luck with your pollen being viable Ruby. I know people do store with success but I have never had any luck with keeping it viable for very long.
 

ruby fruit

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I use a q-tip, but yeah just paint it on the individual pistils you want to pollinate and I generally tie a ribbon around the branch I pollinated.

Good luck with your pollen being viable Ruby. I know people do store with success but I have never had any luck with keeping it viable for very long.
Its not mine a friend has it said i can use it so yeah if i do we will see if it works ..thanks smidge im at week 4 so may be to late will see the girls for the first time in a week soon
 

Vnsmkr

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I use a q-tip, but yeah just paint it on the individual pistils you want to pollinate and I generally tie a ribbon around the branch I pollinated.

Good luck with your pollen being viable Ruby. I know people do store with success but I have never had any luck with keeping it viable for very long.
I just tested a bunch yesterday @Smidge34 . I am not sure if what I have is viable either, though its been kept with rice in the fridge. Best way to keep it viable I would say is to mix it with flour and keep that in a bag with some rice. As long as it doesnt get moisture its fine. The moisture is what kills it. Also after the seeds start forming you can hose the rest of the area down to make any pollen unviable.....
 

Smidge34

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Another thing is to fill a plastic bag like a bread bag with pollen, carefully slide over branch, tie off gently and shake. Gently remove. I still like to paint it on. Pick a windless day and be careful. It's tougher to seed a whole plant than you would think. You'd have to work at it lol.
 

ruby fruit

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Another thing is to fill a plastic bag like a great bag with pollen, carefully slide over branch, tie off gently and shake. Gently remove. I still like to paint it on. Pick a windless day and be careful. It's tougher to seed a whole plant than you would think. You'd have to work at it lol.
The bag idea was actually suggested to me by the guy who can gift the pollen
 

papapayne

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Another thing is to fill a plastic bag like a bread bag with pollen, carefully slide over branch, tie off gently and shake. Gently remove. I still like to paint it on. Pick a windless day and be careful. It's tougher to seed a whole plant than you would think. You'd have to work at it lol.
that was a hard lesson I had to learn! Few plants I tried pollinating the whole plants barely yielded seeds, ones I actually painted with a brush work gave good numbers of seeds. I need to practice a few different flower times post pollination, as the majority of my seeds came out lighter/whiter then I had hoped for nice turtles!
 

Vnsmkr

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that was a hard lesson I had to learn! Few plants I tried pollinating the whole plants barely yielded seeds, ones I actually painted with a brush work gave good numbers of seeds. I need to practice a few different flower times post pollination, as the majority of my seeds came out lighter/whiter then I had hoped for nice turtles!
Did you let them go past your normal harvest time, so to ripen up? I mean those branches you painted them on.
 
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