Seeds everywhere! What went wrong?

[trentrockport]

All of my buds are packed with seeds! While it's nice to have a five-year supply of seeds going forward, I was hoping this harvest would be seed-free.

I identified and removed all males within a week of transitioning to 12/12 photoperiod. The most mature males appeared to be fairly embryonic.

I have a vortex fan with a 6" can filter recirculating in the room itself, and a small 100 cfm fan feeds the room with fresh air from the rest of the house.

Best guesses as to where things went wrong? Things to fix for the next go-around?

TIA

trentrockport Reviewed by trentrockport on 09-27-2009. Seeds everywhere! What went wrong? All of my buds are packed with seeds! While it's nice to have a five-year supply of seeds going forward, I was hoping this harvest would be seed-free. I identified and removed all males within a week of transitioning to 12/12 photoperiod. The most mature males appeared to be fairly embryonic. I have a vortex fan with a 6" can filter recirculating in the room itself, and a small 100 cfm fan feeds the room with fresh air from the rest of the house. Best guesses as to where things went Rating: 5

[F1SEEDS]

its always very stressfull when this happens man ....

it will either be the genetics that ur useing or the meathod that u use to grow man.....if there was the odd male bud on ur female plants then some buds will be pollinated while others will be seed free.


but if there is loads of seeds then there was massive transfer!...u dont touch ur flowering plants buds do u during flowering? or do u move them allot?



peace and love

geeman

[trentrockport]

but if there is loads of seeds then there was massive transfer!...u dont touch ur flowering plants buds do u during flowering? or do u move them allot?

Apart from trimming dead leaves they don't get touched. Similarly, they haven't been moved more than a few centimetres here and there. I have to ask myself if there are other cultivators in the area who are either intentionally growing males for seed or have accidentally allowed males to emit pollen. Should this be a concern? If so, what steps can be taken to prevent such pollination?

[F1SEEDS]

well i really dont think some one apart from a breeder would be planting male plants outside man!


in the good old days (before me)they would grow fields of plants from seed and not pull the males and inturn they would get seeds for next year(open pollination)and some buds to smoke as well......but i really dont think thats ur problem man canabis pollin is very sensative to heat and wnd and water so if u go walk a 3m radias and find no male plants it is safe to say that it may be the genetics of the plant u are growing!


are u growing indoors or outside?

peace and love

geeman

[trentrockport]

Between the climate and the RCMP, here in the Great White North indoor growing is the only option.

[Rusty Trichome]

Apart from trimming dead leaves they don't get touched. Similarly, they haven't been moved more than a few centimetres here and there. I have to ask myself if there are other cultivators in the area who are either intentionally growing males for seed or have accidentally allowed males to emit pollen. Should this be a concern? If so, what steps can be taken to prevent such pollination?

Nice thought, but likely it's stemming from your growroom. A few of the strains I intentionally stress to fem seeds, throw-out the nanners in the middle of the buds. (the nanners don't always grow from the nodes of stressed females)

Also, the pollen can last for a couple of weeks. Did you grow-out a male in the recent past, and not clean-up afterwards? (residual pollen still infecting the ladies?)

[ditdotter]

I've had one strain that did that the first time I grew it out. The clones did the same thing. The ones that formed the seeds were in the same grow box with 2 other strains and the other strains didn't have a single seed amoung the lot. Needless to say that hermie she/male is on longer being grown by me. The only positive is it left me with maybe a 1000 seeds that are probally fems.

These plants would hide the nanners deep inside the buds with only a few showing on the nodes late in flower, which I removed with tweezers and a spritz of ph'd water. Definitely washed down the inside of the grow room after these grows.