[BITYmagicBeanz]

hello, does anyone know if this works. useing a mother female , and useing sevral different male strains of pollen , and pollenating seprate stems with a different male, does this work?

[happyherb]

if you have 100 buds you could use 100 different males....pollen drift would be your biggest problem.HH. =]-~

[Quicksilver]

Yep, what HH said. Make sure there is no air movement, use minimal amounts of pollen, and a clean transfer tool (brush, Q-tip, etc). Oh yeah, and label carefully as you go.

Biggest problem for me is finding the time and space to adequately evaluate all the crosses next go round.

[blackone]

If you had the means to grow several plants of each male then testing of the males could probably be done with some succes, even though a percentage of the seeds from a bud are from different males..
If a winner male is found then it's probably best to continue working the line using a new batch of seeds fathered exclusively by the winner just to be sure that the plants you decide working with aren't the results of stray pollen.

I would probably wait with male selection based on offspring testing until later in the breeding process though, since it takes a lot of effort no matter how you do it, and it's probably better to work with a wider genepool at first, and then only perform systematic testing when developing / finding production parents.

[BITYmagicBeanz]

Originally Posted by blackone

If you had the means to grow several plants of each male then testing of the males could probably be done with some succes, even though a percentage of the seeds from a bud are from different males..
If a winner male is found then it's probably best to continue working the line using a new batch of seeds fathered exclusively by the winner just to be sure that the plants you decide working with aren't the results of stray pollen.

I would probably wait with male selection based on offspring testing until later in the breeding process though, since it takes a lot of effort no matter how you do it, and it's probably better to work with a wider genepool at first, and then only perform systematic testing when developing / finding production parents.

thanks i appreciate your help. cheers man

[Dr CandyMan]

this is my main way of chucking i sometimes take 5 branches from one plant and use 5 separate males. i use shop towels to wrap a branch and pollenate with a q tip. i tape the shop towel around the branch to hold in lose pollen. spraying down the rest of the plant to avoid pollen.