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Issue #351 - Sunday, January 6, 2019
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- A fantastic grower - and fan of GrowWeedEasy.com - has written up a amazing guide on how to pick male cannabis plants to get started breeding. You don't want to miss this one!
- Doesn't it seem cool to make your own seeds? I'm sure the answer for almost everyone is a resounding "yes!". But if breeding seeds doesn't sound fun to you, there's always the easy way...
- The grower of this weeks trophy pics has the right idea: efficiency! They just left plants under 24 hours of light and good stuff happened. Check it out below!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Let our New Year's resolution be this:
We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."
~Goran Persson
How to Pick Male Plants and
Make Cannabis Seeds
by Star Pupil (edited by Nebula Haze)
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Why Every Home Grower Should Make Seeds
(At Least Once)
I encourage every single grower to make seeds for themselves. A lot of people have been asking how, so I put together these basic tips. Hopefully, it helps a lot of people and is fairly straightforward. This isn’t meant to make you a breeder or share all my techniques or secrets, this is to familiarize you with the process of creating seeds.
It’s easy to make your own cannabis seeds at home!
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It’s a shame that many grow books tell you only to throw away your males. New growers may not know, but anyone who’s grown for even just a few years gets to the point where they wish they still had something they grew in the past, which is
no longer available in seed or clone for whatever reason. The older you get the more it happens. Seed lines disappear entirely once they run out, and due to people not making their own. It’s good to be self-sufficient.
While it’s always fun to check out the hard work of your favorite breeders and their strains, it’s equally as important to pollinate a branch or two for yourself here and there and see what magic you can create or preserve. Please share this article if it helps or inspires you. Big agriculture is coming to the cannabis growing world and has the ability to change the plant forever once contamination happens, just like in the veggie world. We are losing genetic
diversity fast as thousands of unique strains are lost. Please do your part if you are passionate!
(Wait, what’s the difference between male and female plants?)
Make your own seeds to save special or unique genetics
How to Make Your Own Cannabis Seeds at Home
These are basic starting points for the home grower. I believe every person who grows cannabis needs to have this skill. Every strain goes away over time when people don’t make more seeds. Growers should know how to make their own seeds for preservation and sustainability. These skills can go a long way. The precursor to serious breeding is the basic technique of creating the seed.
1.) Grow Male Plants
Male plants can be grown in very basic conditions in an isolated space, then flowered for pollen. Males can be started flowering next to females with a close watch for the first week or two, but be careful and remove them before pollen sacks form, bursting open and pollinating everything.
Branches can be cut off and put into a cup of water on a windowsill or under a CFL bulb, even under veg light cycle once they are in bloom. Pollen can be collected within a week from these branches, saving lots of space. Males can also be cloned or flowered very small based on your needs.
Best, however, is flowering the males in their own tent or space. With a carbon filter and negative pressure, and careful practices, you can avoid spreading pollen to unwanted spaces. The longer you flower a male out past its initial beginning release of pollen, the more of its flowering traits you will see! (More on best male plant selection below)
A beautiful male cannabis plant
2.) Collect Pollen
Pollen can be collected by tapping a budding branch gently over a piece of paper. Pollen will spread easily in the air, so make sure to turn off all fans. Visit males only after tending to female plants so you don’t accidentally bring any stray pollen on your clothes or hair!
A male plant right as pollen sacs start opening
3.) Pollinate Buds
Take out your female to be pollinated or shut off all circulation fans. Gently apply pollen to a labeled branch. The pollen must meet the white flowering hairs to create seeds. Week 3-5 is best to pollinate, and you can do a single bud or branch per plant and keep the rest seedless.
Every pollinated branch should be labeled properly, your memory will not last as you think it will. A proper branch label includes dates, strain names, breeder/sources, and has the female listed first and male listed second. An example label looks like this: 4/20/2015 – Star Pupil (Mass Medical Strains) x Prayer Tower Sativa 9 (Bodhi Seeds) and the label should be kept with the seeds when they are finished. As years go by, you will be thankful for the dates and
breeder information, which can escape our memory on occasion.
Overhead shot of a seeded cannabis plant. Strain is “Star Pupil”
Breeding Your Own Seeds is Fun!
But There's A Shortcut...
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Breeding your own cannabis seeds is like it's own separate hobby.
No matter how much you get into it, there's more to learn and do. Plus, the results are fun to test, so that's a huge bonus!
But if you're grower who's more into...well, growing rather than breeding, you can skip the hard work and start with an awesome strain someone else had to do the work of making!
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"I am so glad i was introduced to your website. You have been a tremendous help in my attempts to grow."
Thank You,
Richard
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Trophy Pictures of the Week! |
"Royal Queen Seeds Creamatic Auto. I just left her in my veg room under 24 hours light she took 8 weeks from seed to Bud"
~Dankerbudzz
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Nebula Haze:
I'll be honest with you, when I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my
mission to make it easier for new growers to get started as well as help advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We are updating and adding articles every single week and our goal is to eventually build a comprehensive growing resource so anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! If we all share the knowledge there's more buds in the world for everyone :) |
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Sirius Fourside:
Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics).
"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water
doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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