Quote Originally Posted by emilya
When I was new I was very scared of the males, thinking that one male in the house could somehow turn all my girls into breeders. Now I know better and see that it is actually difficult to pollinate plants not in the same room with the little bit of pollen that hits the air. When I want to work with a male I isolate him in another room, away from my fans in the flowering tent. Then I simply gather some of his pollen into an empty pill container and using a small artists paintbrush, I carefully apply this pollen to one bud on one branch of a 2 week old flowering plant. I put a colored twisty tie on that branch to label it, and then watch as the pistils on that pollinated bud turn brown and curl up over the next day or two, showing me that pollination has occurred. This allows the rest of the plant to develop as sensimilla and I only turn one bud into a seed factory.

Exactly what I wanted to know thank you. I was trying to figure out how I could do this using a sterile technique (which would be nearly impossible). This reply puts me at ease a little. But this info is about 32 steps ahead of where I'm at now. Right now I'm just trying to keep things alive. I would like to get my own seeds though because ordering seeds online is a significant expense. Thanks for the reply.