EverythingsHazy's Breeding Thread

[EverythingsHazy]

That plant didn't get anything other than a sprinkle of bone meal early on in its life. It wasn't in the best of conditions, so it's not so bad, just a bit of a waste of time. However the bud looks fine aside from having HUGE calyxes. There are a lot of cloudy trichs still lol. It also smells fantastic. It wasn't jarred up for a couple weeks so it got pretty dry, but a boveda pack should fix that and allow the some curing to happen for a few weeks.*

*Some people say that once bud is fully dried, you can't cure it... Is that true, in your experience? If so, why is that? I could see if the curing had to do with keeping them alive, like a cutting, in water, but that's not the case. Anyone know how a whole plant would be considered "alive" after you cut it down at the base? lmao

 

[Magic]

Its not about the plant being alive more about water content. When you have 55-65% its the perfect water content for the curing process to occur. Once a bud has been completely dried I'd say 40% and below there isn't enough water for the buds to continue to cure. That's why you see the humidity packs in jars because the longer you can hold that moisture the longer the buds can cure but once they are dried you got what you got. :Sharing One:

 

[EverythingsHazy]

Its not about the plant being alive more about water content. When you have 55-65% its the perfect water content for the curing process to occur. Once a bud has been completely dried I'd say 40% and below there isn't enough water for the buds to continue to cure. That's why you see the humidity packs in jars because the longer you can hold that moisture the longer the buds can cure but once they are dried you got what you got. :Sharing One:

"Its not about the plant being alive more about water content." That's what I figured, but then bumping up some super dry bud back to 62% with a Boveda pack should be able to restart those chemical processes. Chemicals don't know that they were once too dry or too hot/cold to react. They just react in the right environment. So unless over-drying the buds changes the chemicals to make them unable to continue reacting (curing), they should be able to start up again no?

 

[EverythingsHazy]

That "pollinated" Think Different was left flowering for a little over 3 months, and at the end, it was extremely frosty, full of trichs that were still cloudy, and very potent. It also had almost no leaves to trim. After letting it dry out completely before putting it in a jar with a humidity pack (should've jarred it up before it dropped past 60% humidity). I'm curious if the differences in bud structure (calyxes were very swollen) were due to the extra time in flowering, the attempted pollination, or both.

 

[Anthropolis]

Hey bro, late for this lol, but was recently rereading the Cannabis Breeder's Bible and it mentioned that sometimes a stressed or selfed plant can sometimes just freak out and abort a bunch of seeds. Did ya end up scoring any good beans from it?

 

[evol]

The swollen calyx are probably from the extra time before chop. Unless you had some seeds growing in the plant, then it may also be due to partial pollination

 

[EverythingsHazy]

Hey bro, late for this lol, but was recently rereading the Cannabis Breeder's Bible and it mentioned that sometimes a stressed or selfed plant can sometimes just freak out and abort a bunch of seeds. Did ya end up scoring any good beans from it?

The swollen calyx are probably from the extra time before chop. Unless you had some seeds growing in the plant, then it may also be due to partial pollination

Unfortunately, no seeds properly developed, but watching the bud mature far longer than normal, was pretty cool.

Edit* Those two pics stacked on top of each other just happened to match almost perfectly. Didn't notice until the post was made lmao. Unintentional, vertical panorama.