420SeedNinja
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- Oct 12, 2022
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After recently joining as a new member, I'm humbled by the collective growing experience and well rounded discussions/tips from the community. My hope is to add some experiential value as well.
Here is my first contribution, as titled: I'm working with feminized pollen so the buds in the images may look different from typical male plants.
Click here if you have an interest in how to make STS feminized pollen.
In my experience, collecting pollen when the sacks have turned a banana yellow to 24k gold color - the moment right before they open up - is the best time to harvest by lightly tickling the buds to cause the fully ripe blossoms/pollen sacks to fall into your container.
Once collected, I allow the blossoms to dry out in sunlight for a few days (with the least amount of humidity as possible, sometime adding rice to absorb any excess). Then, I use a grinder, not to grind them, for the kief screen. I place the screen over a stainless bowl, pour enough dried pollen sacks to cover the screen, and then I use a glass vial (from a previous pre-roll) to GENTLY press the sacks as I twist the glass into the screen. This causes the sacks to open and drop pollen through the screen. If you don't press the pollen into the screen gently, you will end up with a mixture of pollen and a light green hue of the sacks plant matter being shredded into it. (I learned the key is to use the twisting motion to give them enough pressure to open rather than just shredding the sacks through the screen.)
At this point, I used to pour the pollen into a small container (that is designed for holding paint for art painting) and would use a dollar store makeup brush to dip it into the pollen and lightly dust the white hairs, or use my thumb to flick the brush and allow it to make a small cloud of pollen for each branch. Sometimes I even tried just blowing the pollen off the end of the brush towards the buds. This method works excellent for smaller scale homegrows - keeping in mind all of the preventative steps of courtesy of not pollinating the neighborhood.
Ultimately, since this is a slightly medium scale of breeding (60 plants), I found the best rate of success with a pollinator from amazon.
Hope for others to share their methods, suggestions, criticism or feedback.
Here is my first contribution, as titled: I'm working with feminized pollen so the buds in the images may look different from typical male plants.
Click here if you have an interest in how to make STS feminized pollen.
In my experience, collecting pollen when the sacks have turned a banana yellow to 24k gold color - the moment right before they open up - is the best time to harvest by lightly tickling the buds to cause the fully ripe blossoms/pollen sacks to fall into your container.
Once collected, I allow the blossoms to dry out in sunlight for a few days (with the least amount of humidity as possible, sometime adding rice to absorb any excess). Then, I use a grinder, not to grind them, for the kief screen. I place the screen over a stainless bowl, pour enough dried pollen sacks to cover the screen, and then I use a glass vial (from a previous pre-roll) to GENTLY press the sacks as I twist the glass into the screen. This causes the sacks to open and drop pollen through the screen. If you don't press the pollen into the screen gently, you will end up with a mixture of pollen and a light green hue of the sacks plant matter being shredded into it. (I learned the key is to use the twisting motion to give them enough pressure to open rather than just shredding the sacks through the screen.)
At this point, I used to pour the pollen into a small container (that is designed for holding paint for art painting) and would use a dollar store makeup brush to dip it into the pollen and lightly dust the white hairs, or use my thumb to flick the brush and allow it to make a small cloud of pollen for each branch. Sometimes I even tried just blowing the pollen off the end of the brush towards the buds. This method works excellent for smaller scale homegrows - keeping in mind all of the preventative steps of courtesy of not pollinating the neighborhood.
Ultimately, since this is a slightly medium scale of breeding (60 plants), I found the best rate of success with a pollinator from amazon.Hope for others to share their methods, suggestions, criticism or feedback.
