Can you buy male pollen?

It's my first grow (Grape Ape) and I think I may have a female.....I don't have any more seeds so is it possible to buy some male pollen so i could pollinate my plant later on. Anyone have any Grape ape male pollen and is willing to sell? :-P
 

The Red

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Never heard of this but it seems like a somewhat legit idea. *starts male pollen business*
 

DeeTee

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I think that'd be hard to find, for one pollen is only potent for a shot period of time, I'm not sure of the storage time for pollen, I may be wrong.
 

Bootheel Grower

Active Member
I think that'd be hard to find, for one pollen is only potent for a shot period of time, I'm not sure of the storage time for pollen, I may be wrong.
You can store pollen for years as long as you keep it in a cool dry place and out of the sunlight
 

spek9

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Home made colloidal silver is how I force a plant to produce pollen. If you time it right, you can get the pollen, pollinate another female (or itself if you only spray a branch or two), and get seeds all within a single flowering run.

After you collect your pollen, mix it to three parts of flower. I store my pollen in film canisters, put them in a bag that has my seed collections, and throw the bag in a fireproof safe that rarely ever gets opened.

-spek
 

spek9

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You can also set up a tiny cloning area as well. Root a couple clones, let them grow, then repeat the process. While my flower tent is full, I do this process at least twice within the first month, then I select the best ones and veg them out for a month or so. These are my next flowering run plants.

I don't keep mothers anymore. I simply keep cloning the vegging plants before they go into flower.

-spek
 

Daniel Lawton

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I've been feminizing plants with colloidal silver lately, to save up pollen for 7 different varieties of auto-flower feminized seeds I bought. I've got nearly a gram of pollen for every one now. But what a bunch of work to keep it all separate!

I finally realized, there's NO REASON TO SAVE POLLEN!!!! It's just TOO EASY to make pollen from female plants, fresh when you need it.

When you want seeds, just grow one nice female seed you bought from a reputable seed seller, and spray one branch near the bottom (or 2 if you're paranoid) using colloidal silver methods. Mark the one with a ribbon, some people say you can't smoke that part (seems dubious to me). But the rest of the plant will not be sprayed, and you can smoke it after you extract seeds from it.

Alternately, spray the new growth on the top of the whole plant. Don't go down into the inbetweens and spray that, you want the inbetweens to grow flowers. Let the top grow male pods. The only drawback with this method is, all got sprayed a little, so none is smokable. But you'll get so much pollen, you won't have any doubts about it. Swat it with your hand, and it'll raise a yellow dust cloud that will make you cough.

You'll get male pods from the colloidal silver a little before, or about the same time the rest has female hairs. Then, just move it to a room where it can be alone with itself, maybe slightly enclosed but with light above, a mild fan to set the mood, and some Berry Manilow music.

You'll get a ton of seeds that are all presumably F1 clones of the original (barring gamma and cosmic ray DNA degradation).

You only need to spray until you see the beginnings of male pods. The biggest mistake I made was spraying 3 times a day, keeping it up until I saw some pollen. That stunted the growth of the male pods on my AK47 (which did in fact produce pollen a month later, after I stopped spraying it too much). Also, it's a little too late to spray if you already see flowers. It'll still work, but it's much cleaner if you spray just before it shows any tendencies. It's the spurts of fine new growth that you want. If you spray that, the new growth will be ALL male, without confusing flowers mixed in.
 
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