Bob's Journey into Hybridisation and Genetics - For Dummies

Sounds interesting. Creating polyhybrids opens up the entire spectrum of genealogy in the F1 & F2 generations. Backcrossing to an original parent will bring that parent's genes out more.
I'm trying to get lucky and template back to something I can't tell from the original.
Just smoking the first quick dried buds from the plant I harvested yesterday, which is a Bx to Mephisto's Wedding and boy-o-boy...Even badly dried this is already amazing bud!! wooopwooop.

So, while down there, watering the ladies I thought to myself, why not take a couple of pictures for my AFN friends...
First couple with the lights out, these girls look frosty huh?
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They are so close you guys...Senecense is setting in looking at the different leaf colors.
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And the amount of frost accumulating is just ridiculous!
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In the left corner the larger pheno seed mother...Checked every crusty leaf for that tell tale sign of mold. Toptip you guys; lightly pull on that said leaf and if it comes loose after a small tugg, take a look at the stem. If it's grey, you've got mold. If the stem is a nice straight cut, you are good and that's just the plants way of getting rid of them leaves.
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Nice clayx-to-leaf ratio. And if I ca, find some cheap ass trim tray I feel there's loads of trichomes to be harvested from this cultivar. My grinder has a sepperation screen and only after one bud with a load of dried leaf it left a pile of trichomes good enough for vape test...:baked:
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Even the runt of the litter is looking mighty fine here... :thumbsup:
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Just before watering the lot. I find it easier to remove two pots so I have free reign with my watering hoze. Yup, each plant is hand watered from start to finish. This gives me the opportunity to check each plant from top to bottom while doing so.
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A couple of bud shots for you pr0n lovers...
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This large pheno seed mother is looking very scrumptious, if I may say so...
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Now It's just waiting patiently for the ripening of the trichomes
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What do you guys think? Is this cultivar good enough to be crossed with the Widow of my dreams?

Regards,

Bob :toke:
Those ladies are looking fantastic! I think if you liked it so much the first time you had to grow it bigger and better the next time, then it's good enough to breed with. ...That sounded profound in my vacationing mind but a little moronic on the page. Anyhoo.... I think if you're asking the question, the answer is going to be yes eventually anyway. :rofl: I've never not said yes to that question and I'm just making a blanket assumption here. :frog:
 
@R Wayne & @Antonio_DutchPassion, thanks for the rep and the kind words.

Those ladies are looking fantastic! I think if you liked it so much the first time you had to grow it bigger and better the next time, then it's good enough to breed with. ...That sounded profound in my vacationing mind but a little moronic on the page. Anyhoo.... I think if you're asking the question, the answer is going to be yes eventually anyway. :rofl: I've never not said yes to that question and I'm just making a blanket assumption here. :frog:
No, I like your answer mate!! My mind was already made up, but it's always nice to hear from your peers... :toke:
The F1's will show more variety then these Bx seeds did, but that's ok. First I have to find that Widow male & female to start from. This will be a run on it's own. I'll have to take clones from each selectee and keep them separate, then flower the original plants and harvest, cure and test, weigh and compare. It's after this selection and only after doing this I can continue with the clones. The clones from the plants that didn't make the cut will be destroyed aka fed to the chickens. And the others will be potted into the 3.5L pots. By then it should be spring time and everything can go into the greenhouse.
But if I time it well I could sow the F1 seeds about 28 days before I flip the photo's so they both flower simultaneously and I can skip a run by doing that. But It does mean I'll have to do some serious selecting aka culling to get both auto's and photo's inside the tent...sigh...
 
Day 64 - Junk Dealer's Wedding
Oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy....We're getting close my friends!! :woohoo1::woohoo::woohoo1:
Many of the leaves are showing senescence and are turning colors...Pistils are shriveling up and turning color. Beautiful times ahead boys and girls. 👌

This is the first seed mother...I'll have to keep her a while longer until the seeds are ripe or until she gives up...
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Trichome wise she still can have a couple more days...
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Second seed mother... Looking so yummy, oh my gosh!!!
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The same for this one...If I had to choose based on the trichomes, this one would also come down in a day or two...
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This one is as ready as she's gonna be...
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A nice mix of milky and amber. And although only one picture, the whole plant is looking this way.
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Another one thats completely ready...
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There's always an exception and in this case it's this lady. She's not quite ready yet so I'll keep her as long as I'm keeping the seed mothers.
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Ok, probably the last time lapse for this project so enjoy!! Speed = 120fps, duration = 64 hours.






Regards,

Bob :toke:
 
Project Swamp Wine - Germination
Hey breeders and wannabreeders :smokeout:
We are three days on and it was time to check the cotton pads...All but one (Double Grape x Toof Decay) x Sooty Bride hatched and produced a nice tail.
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I mixed up some lightmix/seedmix with perlite added to it, with some extra perlite. The bag contains 10% perlite and I added 1/4th of the volume perlite.
This got mixed up good and while doing that rough and large pieces were removed.
Then the trays for my propagators got filled with the mix, four in all. Then the bottom tray got filled with three cups of water per prop, after which the soil trays got inserted. As soon as the soil on top got dark I removed the soil trays and emptied the bottom trays. All that was needed was a pencil to make the holes and a set of tweezers to carefully pick up the sprouts.
The (DGxTD)xSB got it's own prop and so did the SkywalkerOG x UK Cheese and the Slaughtered Lamb. Double Grape x 3BOG and Cheese XXL are sharing a tray.

So in all, 40 sprouts were sowed...This hard work deserved a treat... I added the kief from the bottom catcher of my grinder to my normal joint.
This is from grinding three joints worth of bud...LoL...She is frosty you guys!!
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Oh, yeah...I harvested the three ladies that were ready. I cut them as a whole from the pot and trimmed all the fan leaves away, then trimmed the leaves or leave parts that didn't have any trichomes on it. All are drying in the lung room. To accommodate my missus and keep myself to the agreement she (or anyone for that part) can smell it in the house. So, the extraction fan is running at 30%, which lowered the temperature to about 22°C, but with a VPD of 1.38-1.42kPa, so nice and dry environment. Tomorrow I'll be harvesting one or two more and then it's waiting time until the seed mothers and that lazy plant are ready.


Regards,

Bob :toke:
 
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So...Today I harvested two more girls. Which totals the harvest at five beautiful ladies with cola's thicker then a jar of Bactrex. What's left over now are the two seed mothers and that one lady that didn't wanna finish...
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Oh and today was delivery day... :woohoo1:
My Bokashi kit arrived, as did the root riot cubes and clonex gel. An hour later DPD delivered the P9 pots and the N, P, K organic nutes. And this afternoon another delivery guy came by with the replacement for the orgatrex as this was as good as gone...Adding some form of carbs to feed the bennies in the soil is key to keeping your soil healthy and productive.
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These rooting cubes will be used in the project after this one...Where I'll be dipping my tow in...photo's...AHH, IEEEEUW....He said the dirty word...LOL
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These P9 pots will do nicely inside my tent. 36 pieces should be able to fit inside my tray.
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I even found an organic slow release nutrient with the same NPK ratio as the tabs have. It's also got "beneficial bacteria added for a healthy soil", hehe, but is formulated for lawns. We'll see if it gives me the same results... :shrug: Out of respect to Karel, I'm not sharing which brand it is in this thread, but if you are short on cash and wanna know, send me a dm and I'll reply... Nutrient wise I spent about 78€ for all the products...which means I have the equivalent of 500 tabs, 10L of molasses with added minerals and alfalfa meal added. And enough N, P & K organic nutrients to brew up that +1000L of soil I have laying around in the greenhouse for years to come...

To get a massive benny and myco colony, I've used all the bennies and myco I had stocked up in my closet and mixed it in a soup of worm castings (without the worms this time), 1L of the molasses and 500ml of lukewarm dechlorinated water, this got bubbled (don't use a stone as this creates loads of foam, but rather the airtube alone) for day and then poured over the pee drenched biochar. This will now sit for some time until I can't smell any ammonia being emitted from the bag, which means the organics have been feeding and doing their job colonizing the biochar.
For this season I've got about two buckets worth (approx. 20L / 5gallon) of pellet sized pieced of biochar. By volume this amount will not come close to the amounts used in terra preta, but then again it's a start and like the years before I reuse all my soil, rebuild it in the fall and use it the next season. If I keep making the biochar, which is a filthy and messy occupation, I can get that biochar at a acceptable level as the carbon doesn't decompose and will actually remove carbon from the atmosphere. Just read up on the whole "Terra Preta" idea. And, please don't use plain charcoal as this isn't the same as biochar...It's got to do with the way how the charcoal is cooled down. With biochar you use water, as when this comes into contact with the red hot coals, creates massive amounts of steam that blow out the microscopic pores inside the charcoal even more, removing leftover tar and other pollutants.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... :stir:

To end this post in a positive manner...I present you the first seedlings that came up. To protect them from the dry arid environment inside the tent, I chose to keep the lids on, even for taking pictures. Humidity is at 50-51% right now and this would be to great a shock for those who surfaced...I won't take any chances you guys :thumbsup:
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Regards,

Bob :toke:
 
Project Swamp Wine - Day 1
Hey guys,

this morning while watering I took a peep inside the propagators...Not quite want to call it Day 1 yet. Calling it Day 1.
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But most of them have already surfaced
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Ahha, five potential poly hybrid male's 👌
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Hey @Sawney_bean, All look healthy mate!! :woohoo1::woohoo::woohoo1:
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Regards,

Bob :toke:
 
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