How much longer on this male?

[Budda growing pot]

So I'm going to try my hand at harvesting some pollen and then making seeds with some of the smaller bottom buds on my 2 other plants.

Never grown a male to maturity before, was hoping for some outside opinions.

This is just a small cfl grow, I flipped the plants on to 12/12 while they were only 6" tall because they were stunted anyways. Got a male. Now instead of killing it i'm going to let it be a father

Let me know what you think.

The greener one is the male. The other is a top view of one of my other plants.
(both are from a 50/50 sativa/indica plant bought at a cannabis club in SanDiego.)

Having trouble with the camera hope you can see the pics alright.

 

[machnak]

I'd just keep an eye on him and have him in a different room then the females...but I'm sure you know that.

I'll flick a branch and put black paper underneath to check, but I'd say about another 1-2 weeks.

 

[Jovreef]

I chopped my male down at that stage and put the top in a clear plastic cup, stem in a cut out hole in the bottom into a cup of water. This way, A- I only have one branch of pollen. B- it stresses the plant to open the sacks sooner IMO. C- the pollen collects in the plastic cup making it easy and less messy.

For a few pics of my collecting method visit my grow journal.

 

[Robs]

He's got atleast 2 weeks. Keep him around 75 degrees too. Colder temps prolong pollen production

 

[mccumcumber]

4-6 weeks imo
Looks like the pods just started showing up? I like the tight inter nodal spacing, looks like you're gonna get a pretty good cross.

 

[mcrandle]

4-6 weeks imo
Looks like the pods just started showing up? I like the tight inter nodal spacing, looks like you're gonna get a pretty good cross.

Definitely NOT 4-6 weeks. I have a lot of experience with pollen collection. In two weeks you'll have pollen. Guaranteed. From experience I can tell you, 3 weeks from seeing the first football-shaped sac you'll have bananas dangling from those nodes. And judging by your pick, you got plenty sacs, and they take no time to swell up.

 

[mccumcumber]

He'll start getting pollen in 2 weeks, but it won't a full mature male until 4-6 weeks later. Why wouldn't you want to collect pollen from a fully mature male if you were getting pollen anyway?

 

[allSmilez]

He'll start getting pollen in 2 weeks, but it won't a full mature male until 4-6 weeks later. Why wouldn't you want to collect pollen from a fully mature male if you were getting pollen anyway?

Good call bro. So are you saying the pollen genetics change if it's not a full 8 weeks, etc.? I always figured once you got the pollen, those genetics are set in stone, no matter the age.

 

[mccumcumber]

No the genetics do not change, but your plant is just more mature. Maybe it plays some roll, I'm not quite sure, but there's a reason why we don't pick our buds when they first pop up. I've always figured the same goes for pollen. I could be horribly wrong, but I've never had any problems in the past.