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[Micron Creek]

What were the first genetics you cultivated? Personally, I tried several of kc brains varieties, I mean dude's gotta start somewhere. Inexpensive, and as I had been narry concerned with lineage and merely concerned with flowers, I took quite a ride with them. My first success was Mind Bender, a KC33 x Mango. As affordable as they were, the genetics had never been stabilised, which at the time I thought was a great novelty. Pull the rabbit out of a hat, she may be tropical or produce even-numbered leaves instead of odd. Several varieties sounded intriguing, so I tried 6 of their strains. Made my bones, every single rookie mistake, but I quickly understood that a person never stops learning. No matter what issues I experienced, I also experienced the satisfaction of self-sufficiency, quite priceless for all in the same situation. I met my first lil' 8 week Indica-Dominant in the Mind Bender. To see the flowers for the first time is a one-of-kind experience, being taken aback by the frosty nuggetry of the gods. The very first harvest, the first cure, that first bowl. Reminiscing and remembering her now, and seeing where I've come since then, makes me truly appreciate that I never gave up. Cheers

 

[G.Leave]

Ahh mine was serious seeds back in the mid 90's...a friend came home from 'dam with some very expensive seed White Widow, Silver Pearl and AK-47. Never looked back to local strains after picking the pick of the litter from those 3 strains. I still to this day compare bud strength to that cut of the WW.

Awesome thread bud!!

 

[Micron Creek]

Ahh mine was serious seeds back in the mid 90's...a friend came home from 'dam with some very expensive seed White Widow, Silver Pearl and AK-47. Never looked back to local strains after picking the pick of the litter from those 3 strains. I still to this day compare bud strength to that cut of the WW.

Awesome thread bud!!

The heyday of strains in my opinion, grew up hearing about the stashes of Snoop, Pac, KMK, Sublime. The Blue Dream, Super Silver Haze, and especially Serious Seeds Chronic. I believe the AK47 and Chronic were altered slightly by the company in 2000. Only had old school Chronic once, never had original AK47. An old school cultivator I know is certain his AK cut is the one though, sandalwood is how he described its profile.

 

[tobe]

Hi Castle Grown
Nice thread bro. The first seeds i grow out was some bag seeds from a close friend he told me it was ak47. After i grow them out outdoor and got a nice smoke i decided to buy some ak 47 seeds.
My friend ordered them for me and i grow them again in the next outdoor season.
Then i decided to start indoor growing and place my first order @Dutch passion. I ordered a mix pack of autoflower strains and found my love to autos. The first i grow indoor was star ryder as i know right. That was the start of my autoflower journey.
After several grows and learning what a plant need i start breeding.
I used my favorite strains ak47 orange bud and lowryder and creaye my own autoflower line i call OrangeAssault.
It was a hard way because i breed them like this way.
orange bud photo x lowryder 2 to a full auto orange ryder and cross in the ak47 as a auto version.i breed them to generation f4 and got my first stabil auto line. It takes around 4 years with some faild crosses but all the work makes much fun and i learned so much about genetics on my way.

Thats my way to autos and growing and now i do different crosses and projects.
At the moment i start to play with landraces to see if there are a good plant to cross in my line and make them better and better.
i hope i drift not to much away from the topic.
cu tobe

 

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The heyday of strains in my opinion, grew up hearing about the stashes of Snoop, Pac, KMK, Sublime. The Blue Dream, Super Silver Haze, and especially Serious Seeds Chronic. I believe the AK47 and Chronic were altered slightly by the company in 2000. Only had old school Chronic once, never had original AK47. An old school cultivator I know is certain his AK cut is the one though, sandalwood is how he described its profile.

Getting serious was one hell of a way to enter into high class dutch strains. Turns out they are still putting out some seriously awesome strains to this day. I recently read a "Best outdoor strains for 2016" on another site and Serious Six is firmly at the top of the list. I am going to get serious once again, I just know it!

 

[Micron Creek]

Hi Castle Grown
Nice thread bro. The first seeds i grow out was some bag seeds from a close friend he told me it was ak47. After i grow them out outdoor and got a nice smoke i decided to buy some ak 47 seeds.
My friend ordered them for me and i grow them again in the next outdoor season.
Then i decided to start indoor growing and place my first order @Dutch passion. I ordered a mix pack of autoflower strains and found my love to autos. The first i grow indoor was star ryder as i know right. That was the start of my autoflower journey.
After several grows and learning what a plant need i start breeding.
I used my favorite strains ak47 orange bud and lowryder and creaye my own autoflower line i call OrangeAssault.
It was a hard way because i breed them like this way.
orange bud photo x lowryder 2 to a full auto orange ryder and cross in the ak47 as a auto version.i breed them to generation f4 and got my first stabil auto line. It takes around 4 years with some faild crosses but all the work makes much fun and i learned so much about genetics on my way.

Thats my way to autos and growing and now i do different crosses and projects.
At the moment i start to play with landraces to see if there are a good plant to cross in my line and make them better and better.
i hope i drift not to much away from the topic.
cu tobe

Orange Assault, That's a nice sounding variety. How many generations would you say from initial LR#2 x Orange Bud cross to full auto Orange Ryder?

 

[tobe]

Orange Assault, That's a nice sounding variety. How many generations would you say from initial LR#2 x Orange Bud cross to full auto Orange Ryder?

Hi Castle Grown
it takes me 3 generation to get a full auto orange ryder.
cu tobe

 

[pop22]

My very first grow was landrace Vietnamese from seeds found in joints a friend brought home from Vietnam.. I didn't know shit then...lol unfortunately, because the weed they came from was, to this day, the most potent canna I've EVER smoked!

 

[pop22]

KC Brains Northern Lights is actually quite good. I still want to try KC White

What were the first genetics you cultivated? Personally, I tried several of kc brains varieties, I mean dude's gotta start somewhere. Inexpensive, and as I had been narry concerned with lineage and merely concerned with flowers, I took quite a ride with them. My first success was Mind Bender, a KC33 x Mango. As affordable as they were, the genetics had never been stabilised, which at the time I thought was a great novelty. Pull the rabbit out of a hat, she may be tropical or produce even-numbered leaves instead of odd. Several varieties sounded intriguing, so I tried 6 of their strains. Made my bones, every single rookie mistake, but I quickly understood that a person never stops learning. No matter what issues I experienced, I also experienced the satisfaction of self-sufficiency, quite priceless for all in the same situation. I met my first lil' 8 week Indica-Dominant in the Mind Bender. To see the flowers for the first time is a one-of-kind experience, being taken aback by the frosty nuggetry of the gods. The very first harvest, the first cure, that first bowl. Reminiscing and remembering her now, and seeing where I've come since then, makes me truly appreciate that I never gave up. Cheers
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[Micron Creek]

KC Brains Northern Lights is actually quite good. I still want to try KC White

Northern Light Special was the second strain I tried in my quest. Memorable, and stunted due to my haste, was putting vegged ladies in flower at 6 nodes regardless of stalk size. My first ladies were all compact because of this.