when is the right time to pollinate an isolated bud?

j/w about how far into flower should i go before i pollinate a couple isolated buds with the pollen i harvested off my male. no pics sorry..

im trying to make a few more seeds since the deer ate my seeded buds.

As long as there are mostly white hairs, it should be cool to pollinate.

yeah man thats what i thought, i just wanted some reassurance, thanks

takes about 4 weeks for the seeds to ripen. so count backwards. the earlier the better. sometimes they don't take as good if you do it too early though.

thanks for the reply, i will put your advice to good use

fdd2blk said:

takes about 4 weeks for the seeds to ripen. so count backwards. the earlier the better. sometimes they don't take as good if you do it too early though.

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When you say they don't take as good what do you mean? What happens? Nothing right. LOL. The reason I ask is I collected some pollin. I pollinated a female with it. I noticed that some of the calyx's are now hugh. They look like they will burst anytime now. I can see the back end of the seed and it looks like it will rip out of the calyx anytime now. Thats ok. Now then I found some calyx's that look like they never took or so I thought. The pistil turned brown just like the others. I was wondering what was wrong so I cut one of the bad ones off and opened it up. It looked like a small brown seed inside. I mean very small seed. You would need about 50 of them to equal the size of a regular seed. Thats how small it was. It was fully brown and looked like a mature seed, just extremly small. The whole plant was pollinated at the sametime so I would have though all seeds would mature at about the same rate. What sucks is I dropped it and lost it. Once I seen it I was like I have to plant this thing to see if it grows. LOL. My dumb as dropped it on the ground though and couldn't find it cause it is so small. I should rip open another one and post a picture.

Do it when the buds cover the entire stem where their cola will be if you want the most seeds possible.. Before they swell out much.. Before 3 weeks you won't get much success, but failing to give them atleast 4 (maybe 5) weeks will hurt you more.. Actual timeline is obviously vastly strain specific..

I like to pollinate at 3weeks, this gives you a fair amount of flowers. Pik a branch about 2/3 way up, I put a piece of yellow plastic tape on branch so to be able to identify it later. Seeds that split the calix will be good seeds. At harvest , hang the marked branches to the side and let them dry so you can screen the seeds out and roll a big fattie for yourself. GYO