Today, we will talk about female plants converted into males
and other technical aspects related to the production of seeds.
We are in one of the production rooms of Blimburn Seeds,
in particular of the American seeds.
Today Jimmy will talk about
the plants the sex of which is going to be reverted
in order to convert them into males to pollinate the plants.
Jimmy, can you explain what you have here?
This is a tent made ready to pollinate
and right now we are growing the plants.
When we see it is the right moment
to treat and convert them, we will do it.
We stake them properly,
so that the male can grow strong and can ramify
and to avoid them from breaking during the pollination
and to treat the plant as gently as possible.
How many male plants do you use in the rooms?
This is one variety.
We work with one male
for the crossing varieties.
Then, in other tents and in other facilities, we have
more males for converting them,
creating other varieties and investigating.
I can see all the plants are staked.
What we do is using stakes
so that the plant has a consistency
and so that it holds the weight of the plant
avoiding it from bending
which could cause a problem of production loss
in the facility.
So we use this basically with the males
because in order to pollinate we have to shake them
and they are only stems.
This way if you tap it
you can extract the pollen causing as little damage as possible
making it possible for the plant to regenerate the pollen
in the right amount of time to make a good pollination
on the receiver plants.
We are now in one of the rooms where the receiver plants will be
in order to produce seeds.
Can you explain the technical aspect of the room?
Once the previous crop is finished,
we remove all substrates,
we clean, disinfect,
and prepare everything
for growing the plants.
We changed into tubular Can Filter extraction systems
they are more comfortable to work with,
they give us much more space,
the installation of the filters is easier
because they have different sizes for different volumes.
We also changed the tray securing board.
We also renewed the irrigation and drainage system
A little bit of everything.
They also sent us new reflectors
which we are testing right now,
and the results are very good so far.
And this is what we do.
We set it up again.
And we get rid of any insects or fungus
and make sure everything works.
On the next episode, we will talk about lightning, light reflectors,
ventilation systems
and other technical aspects used in professional seed production.
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