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MiHale

(13,053 posts)
Sat Apr 4, 2026, 02:24 PM Yesterday

Cannabis experiment going well...

It’s legal to grow in Michigan.
Rain, ice storms, cold weather is delaying growing outside. So indoor cannabis grow is for fun.
Got a male plant…strain, Pure Michigan bred to auto. Have an auto female growing under it ready to catch all the pollen with enough to share with the others in the tent…a fully feminized auto Pure Michigan and a couple Northern Lights/ Double Grape feminized autos. All have been anointed with the pollen. This is an attempt to get autoflower seeds. I have done this before on a very small trial a few years ago. It worked well…I got about 60 seeds from one isolated branch that I tested on.

A plant most cannabis growers do not want to see..male flowering.



You can see the pollen load dropping




Applying the pollen to the female bud. Pollen does not stay viable for too long so I cut off the branch that’s ready and use it like a paintbrush, stroking the pollen across the buds and letting it drift throughout the female plant.



The little female is peeking out.. after I’m done with the male plant ..it will get cut down allowing the female to take over in the pot…



Sharing this tent with my hot peppers (Big Thai, Jalapeño, Habanero) and sweet potato slips. Maybe I’ll get hot peppers that give a little ‘different’ kind of kick…🤣😂



Here is an almost ready to be harvested female from my previous attempt at seeding. I know it works just as with all growing…we will see.




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Cannabis experiment going well... (Original Post) MiHale Yesterday OP
Give a nice name for the stain. Like multigraincracker Yesterday #1
I like it! MiHale Yesterday #2
It is going pretty well for me personally as well jfz9580m Yesterday #3
👍😂 MiHale Yesterday #4
And if you pull... 2naSalit Yesterday #5
A hermaphrodite... MiHale 7 hrs ago #8
Ha! 2naSalit 6 hrs ago #10
been making my own seed for 40 years ShepKat 23 hrs ago #6
Many years ago, I had one of those ideas that I never investigated further EYESORE 9001 8 hrs ago #7
Canna beer... MiHale 7 hrs ago #9
MiHale? True Dough 1 hr ago #11
Mi...Hale...explained below... MiHale 1 hr ago #12
OMG.. I'm dense today...finally got it...good one! MiHale 1 hr ago #13
No worries, my friend True Dough 1 hr ago #14
Yeah thats the ticket! MiHale 55 min ago #15

2naSalit

(102,903 posts)
5. And if you pull...
Sat Apr 4, 2026, 02:57 PM
Yesterday

All the males, the females with do it themselves, here's proof:




Took this after a week of pulling all the makes from 7 acres only to come out every day and find more males throwing pollen around! And when I went out to inspect, this is what I found. A clearly marked female plant had grown her own pollen pods right over the buds.

Tellin' ya... the girls get it done!

MiHale

(13,053 posts)
8. A hermaphrodite...
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 07:44 AM
7 hrs ago

Kinda common in the earlier days of autoflower. They can get viable seeds. I kinda think that little plant under the male is a hermie seed. It was very little…I mean very little. Had it in my found seed collection.

I forgot how messy males are…damn pollen everywhere….thinking to rename the tent to…The Epstein tent.


2naSalit

(102,903 posts)
10. Ha!
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 09:09 AM
6 hrs ago

No joke about the pollen spread, that stuff gates everywhere. I like the new name for the tent!

The hermi buds were all small, the good stuff was amazing, and it wasn't even marijuana. That was from them hemp crop, some high end CBD stuff, the turpenes were too much for the deer. All I can say about that adventure is... glad I only did that once. It was so much work.

ShepKat

(537 posts)
6. been making my own seed for 40 years
Sat Apr 4, 2026, 03:36 PM
23 hrs ago

I have a consummation tent and only grow outside under umbrella type protection

EYESORE 9001

(29,743 posts)
7. Many years ago, I had one of those ideas that I never investigated further
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 06:39 AM
8 hrs ago

That idea is summarized by this Wikipedia entry:

Research has shown that Humulus lupulus (the plant that makes hops) and Cannabis sativa (also called hemp and marijuana) are closely related,[1][a] and it may be possible to create novel cultivars of hops that express valuable chemicals similar to commercial hemp. Both hops and cannabis contain terpenes and terpenoids; tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is a terpenoid.[3][4] Hops lack the enzyme that could convert cannabigerolic acid into THC or CBD,[5] but it could be inserted using genetic engineering as was done in 2019 for yeast.[6][7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops_and_cannabinoids

MiHale

(13,053 posts)
9. Canna beer...
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 07:49 AM
7 hrs ago

I’ve heard of it but don’t think they use hybrid hops/canna. That would be a game changer…

MiHale

(13,053 posts)
12. Mi...Hale...explained below...
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 02:18 PM
1 hr ago

Mi…abbreviation for Michigan…state where I live.
Hale…a small town in the above state…again further denoting where I live
Again…Mi…in this case denoting possession…expressing the love for my town…
All together… MiHale…pronounced MyHale.

In Michigan there’s a ton of Mi, this Mi, that so just followed a proven theme.
Quite a bit in a little name.

Used to be N_E_1 for Tennis …a play on a Cream song….and the sport I used to play. Changed at the last approved name change.

True Dough

(26,740 posts)
14. No worries, my friend
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 02:23 PM
1 hr ago

You can always go the Bill Clinton route: "I didn't inhale and never tried it again."

You're just growing those plants for the sheer beauty!


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