Since you’re reading these lines, I bet you already have some experience with growing autoflowering cannabis strains.
But even if it’s just out of curiosity, you can still learn how to make autoflowering feminized seeds to enjoy your own crops while saving some cash. And all of that while having tons of fun with breeding your autoflowering green beauties.
Check out the basics of making autoflower seeds and let the growing begin, bud buddies!
А Beginner-Friendly Guide: How to Make Autoflowering Feminized Seeds
Okay, so you’re into making your very personal autoflowering seeds. Actually, feminized ones.
For this purpose, you first need to grasp the essence of pollinating cannabis plants.
What You Need for Making Autoflower Seeds
You want to start by getting the highest quality autoflower seeds possible.
Choose a reputable seed bank.
After all, you are going to rely on the strong genetics of your parents’ marijuana plants for breeding your auto seeds.
So no compromise on that one!
How to Start Breeding your Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds
In order to get feminized seeds out of your autoflowering beauties, you don’t need a male marijuana plant.
You want nothing more but a few female autoflowering babes and colloidal silver.
Colloidal silver is an old folk remedy, although it sounds as if you get back to chemistry class in the middle of a test.
Colloidal silver is, in fact, a well-known ancient remedy for healing the body in numerous ways.
On the other hand, there are some very conflicting opinions, regarding the benefits of colloidal silver in terms of healing.
But what you need to remember is that you shouldn’t consume any part of your cannabis plant, which has been sprayed with colloidal silver.
Now, I know it sounds controversial.
On the one hand, colloidal silver is considered an old remedy, which is safe to even drink and spray on your skin.
But when it gets heated (and this will inevitably happen when you consume a bud), it gets dangerous for your health and is proven to be cancerogenic.
Now that you know the precaution measurements with colloidal silver use, here is what you have to do to make feminized autoflowering seeds.
Choose a Healthy Autoflowering Mother Plant
Since you are going to make feminized auto seeds, you first need to see a well-formed bud on your female mother cannabis plant.
That bud shouldn’t be mature, though yet still noticeable and not merely a few pistils sticking out.
Pick a juicy bud and spray it thoroughly with colloidal silver, poured in a common spray bottle.
Another option you have is to carefully cover the entire bud with colloidal silver by using a simple paint brush. An eye dropper can also work fine.
Apply colloidal silver a few times per day until you see pollen sacs forming.
When you can clearly see that the pollen sacs are mature, take the pollen and use it to pollinate another female autoflowering beauty.
How does Colloidal Silver Work?
When introduced to colloidal silver, your female marijuana will develop male organs (pollen sacs). But since these pollen sacs will grow on a female plant, they will carry female genetics.
Thus, when you pollinate another female auto, you finally get feminized seeds.
In order to pollinate your second female auto plant with the pollen you have collected, simply use a drawing brush.
More Tricks about Marijuana Pollen
If your autoflowering parent plants are showing different growth patterns, you may need to collect and preserve the pollen until the right moment for utilizing it kicks in.
For this purpose, place the pollen in a clean and dry container. You can use a resealable plastic bag or a miniature glass bottle.
The pollen sacs will appear as if they are very close to crack. If you are not sure if they are mature enough, when you see them full anyway, cut them carefully and place within a re-sealable bag. They should be ready within a week or so.
Place the container in the freezer. In fact, a well-stored pollen can be easily kept alive and ready for action for more than a full year in your freezer.
Just remember, the worst enemy for marijuana pollen is moisture.
In the case you are sure to store your pollen longer, you can even add a pinch of all-purpose flour (make sure to use one without raising agents, though).
Flour will help to absorb any unwanted moisture and thus, keep pollen fresh.
Might sound simpler than you thought? Or at least it sounded way too why-I-did-not-start-this-earlier to me.
Having to spend hard earned money on single auto seeds was sure not my favorite dish on the meal.
Not to mention the difficulties faced when choosing a reputable seed bank. Don’t know about you, bud buddies but having your seeds blocked at customs sucks.
But is really that easy to make your very own high-quality feminized auto seeds?
Well, you know what they say – practice makes perfect.
But after all, making autoflower seeds is not a complex sci-fi mission.
Now at the final, you already know how to make autoflowering feminized seeds, which only points out to the reliability of this process. Any experience you have and willing to share is highly appreciated.
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