I wish my "shortstuff#1" had the same germination rate.
None sprouted.
I allowed an experient grower to help me, he did all the job and it seemed pretty correct, as his pupil I payed atention to every detail.
The earth mix was very organic and good... but we got no result.
After a while... "weed" started growing on the pots. Unfortunatelly the weed wasnt "the good one" if you know what I'm saying.
This friend was all skeptical about the paper towel method and induced me doing it naturally.
I decided to trust him, cause he sure had experience with growing cannabis. I've seen his crops... He had those HUGE SATIVAS at his place.
Ahahhah one of those sativa trees was growing way above the fence, but he didnt want to put his top cola to waste, so he harvested the whole thing earlier.
Aparently he knows a lot of the art, but he hasnt got the patience taken to perform LST...
I've taught him some tricks... but you know how things are:
Oldschool don't believe newschool that easy.
I am pretty sure that the paper towel method would have poped some seeds...
Nowadays I understand that this strain I had picked back then hasnt got the popularity enough to sell fast. So the seeds probably were stored for a while.
I wont even mention the seedbank where I purchased from cause it is too simple to put the blame on them and the truth is that we germinate our seeds at our own risk.
But I just find it risky to shop tight for seeds... I just cant imagine myself shopping for less than 2 strains, 8~10 seeds of each.
But I say so cos I don't buy Feminized seeds... only regular.
I understand that feminized seeds are sort of easier to grow... but I enjoy selecting a male and growing it.
Most people out there will be whinning about sinsemilla crops but when you got no weed to smoke, trust me, getting a bud... and even finding seeds on it is just like a bless!
I dont find regular seeds much more complicated... as males take a while to mature their polem-sacks.
This gap ia more than enough to select which one has the most prolific "budding".
Some males even glisten in resine... I even believe that it can be a good trait!
Once I've readed an e-book called "marijuana chemistry", the pdf file was sort of corrupted, missing some pages. But it was still good to read.
At some point of the book, there were several tables... filled with the "awkward" cannabinoids tests from cannabis from all over the world.
In these charts you could easily spot samples like males with only traces of THC, but consistent CBD.
Some had both... THC and CBD.
Mostly they were oposite to females. But I remember about one, in which the male had more cannabinoids than the female itself.
Ofcourse these tests were made from "wild" camnabis.
The content of cannabinoids on them was mostly low. Way too low, if compared to what "we grow".
But it was a good lecture for me, cause it proves that males may be more important than people think.
They may induce a richer offspring, perhaps even containing higher concentrations of cannabinoids than the past generations.
With all of that assimilated, I got another reason to want a real breed, and not a self-polinated female.
I understand why thwy do that, to protect their work... but I just hate intersexing plants.
I had a hermie once... that started being a fine female... smelly(stinky!) And with great budding, but this little sucker pollinized my whole crop and ruined my other girls. :-/
The bad thing is that the hermie had GREAT shape, smell, taste.
No other female was "as good".
I had tons of his seeds... probably even "feminized", from the other females he polinized. But I see no reason into growing them cause not being able to PLAN your garden ia a terrible thing.
I have nothing against hermies... as I said, I smoked this little bastard I had. But I avoid them at all cost, specially genetically speaking.
:-/
