I'm nearing the end of my first auto run, and man I'm so happy!
I got seeds in their breeder packs from 207 Genetics in Maine.
I went with Fastbuds' Gorilla cookies, Strawberry and Lemon Pies, and Star Dawg. A 207 genetic's own Amnesia (Huge and one of my favorites), and Strawberry Cheesecake, and Royal Queen's Green Gelato, and Royal Gorilla (Gorilla Cookies.)
Thanks to all the guidance on here, it's making one hell of a crop.
All growing in 5 gallon bag pots, and under 1000 watt HPS lights (overkill probably, I get some light bleaching).
I even bought some Auto Cheese X GSC auto, regular seeds, from somebody in Tennessee, on Ebay, and DID NOT get ripped off! (Like usual)
They autoflowered, made a beautiful crown, and totally covered in frost, and smell like cheese!
I took a male from those ebay cheese seeds, and pollinated a branch on most everything.
I also reversed one of almost everything, and made Fem crosses of everything. I crossed Gorilla Cookies ( up to 27% THC) with everything, and also crossed everything with other plants of the same strains to get some pure strains, BUT I didn't self, or keep seeds from any of the reversed females. Too many experienced breeders say they carry double hermy traits, so I didn't chance it.
My way of thinking, and from what I've learned is, you can always reverse for fem seeds, but you can't go back to Regular male/female seeds, and unless you got a connection you can't hardly get males from top shelf brands cause they're all femmed.
It's not good to fem over and over, more than 3 times ( I read somewhere, I'm new to this myself)
I'm very happy with Autoflowers compared with Photos.
So my plan for breeding is, to plant 10 fem seeds of a strain, and 10 regulars from that strain (crossed with the male Cheese), and start crossing my favorite males with the best females, and hopefully I'll get fairly homozygous offspring in a couple generations, and in
regular sex.
I got tons of fem seeds for the first time ever! And plenty of regs too.
Today I just turned a 4' square kiddie pool, and some 2" thick styrofoam into a Drip/DWC set up. I got some Early Miss, and some Bruce Banner autos, and gonna see what I can really do! I wanna see some of those 3" stalks for myself LOL.
I'm only growing the Bruce Banner autos because Nukeheads wants me to grow something from them, on my Youtube channel. But the seeds didn't come in the breeder packs, which is important to me. Unless I'm gambling on purpose, before I dedicate 3-4 months to something, I want to be sure it's what I wanted! There's too much counterfeiting going on with seeds.
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