Collodial Silver Question

[FredGarvin]

I am considering using CS to create some auto seeds of strains we like. I have a couple of questions, need some edification before I make the leap;

Is it possible to use CS on a portion of a plant and pollinate the flowers of the same plant? Or does timing prevent that.

If it does require two plnts, should the plant you are spraying be planted a couple of weeks ahead of the plant you plan to seed? Just for timings sake.

Appreciate your feedback,

Fred

 

[Olderfart]

You can do it either way.

I chose separate plants for several reasons. First, I was not interested in bud from a CS treated plant, so there was no point in doing a partial treatment to preserve bud. I think CS treatment may be more reliable if you soak the entire pollen plant down rather than just treating part of it. Doing self pollenation is higher risk for recessive mischief in the offspring. And last, doing self pollenation can work, but the timing is not optimum, and it is impossible to control pollenation to only a couple branches.

In order to soak down an entire plant, you need to make your own CS. The small bottles sold on line are not likely sufficient even if the solution is good which it sometimes is not.

I started my reversed plant ~2 weeks early. 2-3 weeks works because you will collect pollen when you need it or a bit earlier. Grow your pollen plant in a small pot to speed it up.

Unless you are selling seeds, pollenating only a couple lower branches will give you more seeds than you can use, and the rest of the plant can grow nice bud. If you want to pollenate only a couple branches, you need to isolate the pollen plant from your mother(s) and apply pollen very carefully. It can be done, I had zero seeds on any branch other than the two I applied pollen to.

All just my take on the issue of course, lots of peeps do self pollenation and get seeds from it.

Good luck with it.