Making Root Beer Float x Chronic Ryder

[FarmerJake]

Goal: Take Root Beer Float feminized seeds and work them into a Regular strain that accurately represents RBF
Plan: Use Chronic Ryder as a pollen donor for crossing with Root Beer Float s2’s to make my F1’s. Cross a male from the F1 generation back onto a feminized Root Beer Float. And keep backcrossing until I achieve my goal.

Here they were on the 28th of February Day 2

We are on Day 12 now and everything is on track for success, each of the Chronic Ryder’s was placed in a 1g grow bag and the RBF in an Earthbox Jr. The Males of the chronic Ryder will stay in the 1g pots as will a breeder female so I can make the next generation of Chronic Ryder to keep on hand for future projects. Hoping to grow out a female Chronic Ryder for smoke too as I’ve never grown this strain.
RBF day 12

Chronic Ryders day 12

@Doctor's Choice thanks for opportunity to showcase and breed your Chronic Ryders
@Jean-O I know I asked like a year ago but thank you for giving me the green light to make a cross with RBF it’s one of my favorite strains I’ve ever grown

 

[tobe]

Hi @FarmerJake
Good luck with you breeding project.


Have a nice day
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[Doctor's Choice]

That sounds like an exciting breeding project! Best of luck with your breeding efforts, and I hope you achieve your goals. Keep us updated on your progress!

 

[FarmerJake]

Day 22
5/5 Chronic Ryders are male. Kind of bummed because I wanted a female to pollinate and one to grow out for flower. I feel doing so would be helpful in knowing what traits to look for in offspring. I have some fast flowering males and some slower flowering.
Here is the 5 studs

And it gets questionable with the Root Beer Float s2 that I plan to pollenate. I have noticed that occasionally I’ll get an auto who will throw a few immature male parts early in life before showing more strongly as female sex, I have come to think of this as a side effect of feminized genetics and is a driving factor in me converting all genetics to regular format for personal use. This Root Beer Float has a few tiny balls, which brings to question if I even want to breed this specimen. For Shits and Giggles I may pollenate a single branch but certainly not the whole plant as I had intended. I may abandon the plan entirely though and just collect the pollen from the male Chronic Ryders and grow the RBF for flower only assuming it doesn’t throw more balls. Thoughts?
Root Beer Float

Male looking parts

First pistil barely showing

 

[FarmerJake]

Day 28
Male update
Fastest strongest at flower so far but not my favorite structure

Favorite structure, slower to flower, this is my stud I think

The next two in the plastic bags are the Runners up with slightly more upright growth structure but still a slower to flower time

Second fastest to flower and skimpy structure

Group shot, disregard the photoperiod that is directly sowed in the bed below, far left is my favorite male how about you?

 

[Doctor's Choice]

Hey there! It's a pity that all five out of five seeds turned out to be males, but we're very curious to see the outcome of your initial idea
By the way, I also love the left male Keep going, and I wish you good luck!

 

[tobe]

Hey @FarmerJake
What is the smell of the male? Can you make a close shot of the male flowers, I got interest to see how close the flowers are to each other.
Do you plan to test smoke the male?

 

[FarmerJake]

Hey @FarmerJake
What is the smell of the male? Can you make a close shot of the male flowers, I got interest to see how close the flowers are to each other.
Do you plan to test smoke the male?

They all smell very similar on a stem rub, slightly floral but no standouts. I may smoke some of the male flowers just as you mentioned as I never have. Here is some pictures of the male flowers closer up to show “flower density” honestly my favorite one is not so hot in that regard but I think it may be slower to flower and will catch up.
Favorite for structure

Fastest to flower with most pollen sacs

Second favorite structure but slow to flower

Decent flowers taller less desirable structure

Really hoping the one with preferable structure ends up making a nice load of pollen as it would be a no brainer choice but I have been wondering if I should store some pollen from the faster ones. Are you smoking the male flowers before they drop pollen?

 

[FarmerJake]

Here is the Root Beer Float we will be pollinating, her structure is similar to the best structured male and flowering hasn’t kicked in yet so a longer flower time for the female as well

 

[tobe]

Hi @FarmerJake
I smoke the dried male flowers after they released the pollen. I only do in a small pipe as the first smoke of the day because than I can notice the effect but I highly recommend not smoke to much you don't want to get a headache.
The flower structure looks nice the last pic with the closest flower structure would be my choice. More closer male flowers gives more compact female flowers in the offspring generation. I would use different males and mark the pollinated buds, separate the seeds and growing them side by side.