Entire plant every day for two weeks prior to 12/12 and two weeks into 12/12. Yes the plant will have a bunch of gray looking stuff all over the leaves but thats ok.. The plant needs to absorb the silver..
I take the pollen from that (donor) plant and put it on clones from her that are NOT sprayed and in a popcorn bud stage 3 to 4 weeks along.. I then throw away the plant I reversed.
This is why I mentioned about reversed plants taking an extra week or so to produce pollen. The extra week or so needs to be accounted for..
I put my reversed plant in flowering a week ahead of my clones. Hope that makes sense.
Another thing.. Girls don't spit their pollen the same way as guy's do (if you know what I mean).. It oozes out of girls but spits out of guy's.. So pollen from a reversed girl 9 time out of 10 needs to manually be put on the cloned girls and their popcorn buds..
You will physically have to PLUCK the male pollen sacks off the reversed plant. I like to pluck the pollen sack off with my index finger and thumb and then move them together (like i'm snapping my finger) and watch the pollen come out of the sack (it's fine yellow dust).. I do this finger and thumb technique over the tops of all the popcorn buds I can. Even multiple times if I can.
How can you tell when the pollen sacks are ready?
The male pollen sacks will open up. If you look on the leaves just below the pollen sacks after week 4 or so of being in 12/12 you will see that yellow fine dust i was talking about. As soon as you see this dust on the leaves you can then start to manually apply your pollen..
Yes you can use a fan to blow around this pollen and if it was a straight male, I would.. But these reversed moms IMO need to have their pollen manually applied.. I like to make sure all of my popcorn buds get pollinated.. Especially what's gonna become the colas.. I find those to be my best seeds from this process..
You will only find a few pollen sacks ready each day.. After about 5 days of finding a few pollen sacks per day to manually apply, you should have all your popcorn buds dusted and can now toss the reversed mom..
Thats how I do it anyway.. lol
