Breeding projects: First up, Azure Duck!

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Forgot to say, she's a beauty! And she looks more like my ducksfoot than these crosses I'm seeing, like Frisan Duck. Mine and yours has the smoother edges to the leaves.

View attachment 674176 I had ducksfoot seeds a long time ago. I really Should of made more.

 

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UPDATE:

Azure Ducks in the tent will be going on 12/12 tomorrow! Momma duck will move to the other 4x4 tent along with the Blue Dragon currently sharing this tent. I'll begin to transplant the Azure duck seedlings into 1 gallon pots, decided not to grow them out in the solo cups, too much fussing to keep them alive and would like an inkling of what they could be.
Seedlings look good they are getting past the stretched stems causedf by the other light,

 

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Do any have the webbed leaf?

 

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I'll get some good leaf pics soon. These F1 Azure ducks looked a bit duck like at the first leafs, but not now. I didn't expect any obvious ducksfoot like plants in the first generation. I'll take a male and backcross to a momma duck clone, see if I can get a few auto ducks. It will take some time, this is a long term project, separate from reviving the ducksfoot strain.

Do any have the webbed leaf?

 

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Momma duck is out of the tent, along with the 3 Blue Dragons. flipped the light to 12/12 so now we'll have some action! Hope that big plant is female, but as long as one is, I'm good, as I got 18 more seedlings almost ready for transplant.

 

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Guess I may as well post the Ducksfoot cloning etc here also. The df clones in soil are about dead. reason unknown. The clones in the clone box however are looking very good! A couple are even standing right up nicely. Changing the water every day, ph'd to 6.3 Water has 90 ppm cal/mag only. Yesterday I transplanted 2 of the new Azure Duck seedlings into 1 gallon pots. I decided to do that with those that gain size the quickest, got 3-4 more to transplant, the others may go into 1/2 containers.

pics later

 

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Ducksfoot clones are doing better than expected, in fact, they mostly look ok to good! Had to yank on that was dying, one more looks shaky. The soil plants both died. However, after almost 2 months, the clones in the breeding tent are beginning to show new growth!
I've now got 9 Azure Ducks transplanted into 1 gallon pots. The other may stay in solo cups, I'm undecided, but the ones with the best growth are all transplanted.
All look very healthy

 

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Ducksfoot clones are doing better than expected, in fact, they mostly look ok to good! Had to yank on that was dying, one more looks shaky. The soil plants both died. However, after almost 2 months, the clones in the breeding tent are beginning to show new growth!
I've now got 9 Azure Ducks transplanted into 1 gallon pots. The other may stay in solo cups, I'm undecided, but the ones with the best growth are all transplanted.
All look very healthy

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Hi my friend
You plants looking good.
cu tobe

 

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Thanks Tobe!

 

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All the ducksfoot clones in the hydro cloner died. that makes 16 failures. Time to declare this type of cloning unusable for ducksfoot...

And again, 6-8 weeks later, when the clpones in soil were looking dead, Boom! New sprout pops up...lol! Weird plants!

here are some pics of ducksfoot and azure duck. The last pic is a re-vegged ducksfoot from a budded plant. Took about 2 months