fistacuffs68
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i have a male autoflower and i wanted to keep it to pollenate my next grow. it has already started opening some of its pollen sacs so i guess what im asking is how long can i keep a male autoflower?
I really like the fact that you said "I think". Wow I wish there were more people like you around who mentioned things were their opinion before the said something.I am assuming you want to save the pollen so you can fertilize your next grow and have seeds so you dont have to keep buying them... If that is the case then your plan is flawed and here is why:
1. Breeders perform hybrid crosses to get you the seeds you receive. Pollinating back into the same genetics is considered ILB and you lose a lot of the hybrid vigor from the original parents. You also stand to have a greater variation which means some plants will be producers and others won't... at best you will have unreliable genetics. I would sooner take my chances with bag seed.
2. Pollen will keep 3 months give or take under ideal conditions; that means you will always have to have a male around and you certainly don't want to store him with your ladies (unless you like picking 1000's of seeds out of your bud). Which means you will need to maintain a separate room and lights just for him. If you were going to actually go through all that trouble for unreliable genetics you might as well have just bought reg or fem seeds, picked a mother plant, and then just clone the shit out of her. That way your crop will be much more predictable and you won't have to worry about males.
I personally think autos are B.S. breeders are introducing less potent, smaller yielding, genetics from the Ruderalis into well established Indica and Stativa genetics and setting those strains back 10 - 20 generations of selective breeding...why to get a plant a noob can grow and has to buy more seeds to grow again.
To each his own brother, but from a former photoperiod grower I really dig my autos. Some are shitty, some will be as potent as photos. If you were a breeder you'd want to have auto seeds to keep selling. Get that money, dollar dollar bill yall ... eh?I personally think autos are B.S. breeders are introducing less potent, smaller yielding, genetics from the Ruderalis into well established Indica and Stativa genetics and setting those strains back 10 - 20 generations of selective breeding...why to get a plant a noob can grow and has to buy more seeds to grow again.