Pollen life?

[qdavid]

I'm about to harvest a plant but I'm thinking I'll leave one of the buds on hoping it will hermi and give me some seeds before it dies completely. I'm thinking if that works then I'll have to wash the cab down good with bleach so I don't fertilize later grows. The major hang-up with my dumb idea is that cab is in my closet and there's a fairly good chance any pollen might hang out in there and it'd be pretty much impossible to clean the whole place. So my question is, how long would pollen last? I figure it's gotta be less than a year anyway otherwise outdoor grows wouldn't go right. Or is my idea just stupid?

qdavid Reviewed by qdavid on 10-31-2007. Pollen life? I'm about to harvest a plant but I'm thinking I'll leave one of the buds on hoping it will hermi and give me some seeds before it dies completely. I'm thinking if that works then I'll have to wash the cab down good with bleach so I don't fertilize later grows. The major hang-up with my dumb idea is that cab is in my closet and there's a fairly good chance any pollen might hang out in there and it'd be pretty much impossible to clean the whole place. So my question is, how long would pollen Rating: 5

[oldsanclem]

Hermie seeds produce
( ) left handed chickens
( ) right handed chickens
( ) hermie seeds
( ) a real unstable mess
(X) all the above except for chickens, thems need eggs, from a knocked up hen thats had a run in with a cock/rooster.

[pudder]

from what I have read pollen only lasts about a month or so. Could be longer could be less depending on environment. A good scrub down and a little wait should do the trick but a good scrub will be fine. By the time its flower time you should have no worries even if you didn't scrub anything unless you do a 3in grow. Ya know the 3 weeks veg and the flower thing. I just got this from what I have read. Still learning myself.

[qdavid]

Damn, I wanted some chickens. Especially left handed ones. If I plant an egg sideways, maybe? Maybe planting chicken feathers'd do it.

[pudder]

maybe who knows you should try it.

[Rusty Trichome]

I had been forcing male flowers on female plants for years, using either Gibrellic Acid spray, or aspirin treatments. ( Now-a-days, I use the GA for germinating seeds only)
Have not found either of these methods to 'cause' hermies in any of my later genetics at all.

IMHO, if a plant's genetics are already prone to hermie, (poor seed storage, over-breeding a strain, generations of poor growing/lighting conditions...) then it doesn't really make much difference. You'll possibly breed-in a certain number of hermie traits.

Is it not true that at the end of a unproductive season, the plant knows it has not been pollinated, so goes into emergency self-pollinating mode? Isn't this a genetically imprinted response, and shouldn't be seen as adversly altering the genetics of the seeds?

GL

[smokenss]

so if thats right then every crop left for a second haverst would go hermie?

[qdavid]

If you leave a bud or two and the lights are left 12/12, I think it's supposed to.

[Subjekt]

A few boy flowers wouldnt pollinate your next grow and if it did then it'll be just a few seeds, 4 mature boys can pollinate your next grow. The pollin from 4 boys will amaze you, you'd see a lot of pollin in the area...

[Rusty Trichome]

so if thats right then every crop left for a second haverst would go hermie?

No. Since you revert the light back to 18/6 and change back to the veg ferts, it tricks the plant into thinking it somehow made it thru the winter, and is time to rock-n-roll again.
Keeping a close eye on them is a good idea, tho. Some strains don't do well in re-veg.