First pollen chuck seeds not ripe

[Phate008]

I did my first couple crosses using a spare tent. I used colloidal silver to force a very nice strain I grew to throw pollen. I have it in the center of 3 small plants in 2 gallon pots. Once it started to make pollen I consistently shook the plant to pollinate the other 3. It worked and they all started to produce seeds. The mother's of these clones finished at week 9 (indica dom) and the others finished at week 11 (sativa dom). I am currently at week 10. I have pulled off a couple pods to check the seeds. About half are green and unripe and the other half look good.

My question is will all the seeds ripen if I wait longer? Is there a 'perfect' time to harvest for seeds? I know with hermies in the past I have just harvested when the trichomes looked good and found a lot of good seeds deep in the buds where you couldn't see from the outside.

 

[Madmax]

@Trustfall your area of expertise.

 

[mysticepipedon]

Yes, they will ripen if you wait longer. Forget how long it takes for the strain to finish. Creating seeds is different and it takes additional time.

 

[Trustfall]

@Trustfall your area of expertise.

Been all over the place for me. Some strains have nothing but ripe seeds some half ripe half unripe. I have noticed if you get any root problems mid flower the % of ripe goes way down.

 

[Phate008]

Thanks for the comments. The root problems may exist. As a test i kept one clone in a solo cup. I was mistaken and the other 3 are in 1 gallon hard pots (soil). I transplanted a couple days before flip to the 1 gallon pots. I'm sure they are probably all root bound, but they all seem pretty healthy. They all have nice fades. A couple of the seeds I pulled out have the nice stripes and color, but there is also a good amount of green ones. I think I'm just going to run them all another 2-4 weeks.

For those that have done this...what is the longest you have waited for seeds to mature? I'm wondering if I'm looking at 12 week flower,18 week flower, etc

 

[growsince79]

I wait 6 weeks after pollination and 95% are ripe.