ever picked a plant off of a... plant?

[midnight toker 471]

I don't know about you all... but I enjoy harvesting seeds before a plant finishes. I find some seeds tend to finish faster than others and you can get more of a perpetual seed harvest this way. I also think it encourages more seed production to compensate for the ones that in nature the birds might have plucked off. But really, why bother? Isn't that just extra time and work for a BIG maybe I'll get a few more beans???? Probably. There is no harm in leaving a seed too long, right? So what's my problem???

 

A: I find seeds tend to want to pop immediately when fresh plucked, otherwise they begin to go into a dormant protective phase before sprouting.

 

B: I have tested this theory and found it to be true.

 

but

 

C: I had no idea how right I was until the other day when I was picking some seeds out of the buds, and found a full grown sprout!!! And then another... and then a few cracked beans with a root beginning to emerge.

 

WTF!!!! it's winter... it's dry... it's cold... there is every reason this shouldn't have worked.

 

The hilarious part: I had given them a nice little PH balanced mist the other day, just to keep things happy and keep the dust off so to speak. Well I guess it was just enough moisture to encourage these prime beans to hatch. They came out like hydrogenas, I mean bone dry, but they were sustaining themselves on air and what little moisture they could pull from the buds. Really demonstrated how little moisture a seedling can need, whereas too much is inevitable root rot. The second they hit medium they were thrilled! I've never seen plants happen so fast. I literally was pulling little plants off of... yes PLANTS! I found this all very odd and humorous and had to share. This ever happen to anyone else??? Nature is full of many pleasant surprises. So, little ones are on the way while the seed mama still buds and produces more seeds. That's my kind of awesome!

 

Peace out! Midnight

[FoolOnTheHill 3,040]

Why no pictures?

[midnight toker 471]

Good point FOTH! I thought about that after the fact. Got to get my game up a notch here. Poor reporting on my part. I wanted to get them in a medium as quickly as possible since they were hanging on by some strange miracle. I'll see if I can catch anymore in action though. I was looking over the buds and thinking, that's a pretty thick white hair... wait! Could that be a root? So I had to kind of excavate them out of the bud. The visual was not so great because they were hidden. Maybe a video of the excavation? lol Would have been hilarious if the little top was sticking out seeking the sun, but it came out ass backwards like a big white hair.

 

 

 

 

Why no pictures?

[FoolOnTheHill 3,040]

Thanks for describing it even more precise.

A camera is a great tool for growing in the first place.

And you might catch some oddities while you use it.

 

About plucking seeds before the plant is ripe:

Pollination of just the preflowers only, can be done without much risk, and results in 10-20 seeds that will be ripe way before the plant is, and can easily be monitored and plucked, as they are in the nodes of the plant, not hidden in the buds, that stay sinsemilla.

And all of them have plenty time to get 100% ripe.

 

I also pollinated the lowest young bud of Fem-plant.

My theory is that it might suppress any hermy-traits that it might have hidden.

The plant has felt there are pollen in the air, so hopefully will get on making lots of pistils.

But I have no proof of that at all.

 

But I never use seeds fresh, always stick hem in the fridge when dried.

The nice germ temp makes them wake up from their nap.