DRAGONS RULE!

Good luck petey!

Here a link to my method of pollen collection.
https://www.autoflower.org/index.php?threads/hand-pollinating-plants-my-method.46789/


The key to seed storage is simple, keep them dry! I use wooden cigar boxes to store my seed. I put a few desicant packs in the box to keep the humidity low. I recently planted a 5 pack of critical auto that was a year old when I got it, and almost 2 years old when planted. Germ rate was 100% I've yet to bother storing seed in the freezer, but may put some of the Dragon's Blood seed in there for long term, as I got almost 1100 seeds from three small plants!

Nice to see some new dragon strains also! I'll follow along!


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I have been gifted some dragons and feel very blessed. I've been doing lots of research and have decided to start with some Stone Dragons to dip my toe in the water so to speak.
I also have some Blackberry Stone and Purple Tomb Stone to try. I'll be growing four of each at any one time if that makes sense. So 4 stones then 4 bs then 4 pts, as they're regs any males will be moved and replaced with new seed and used to collect some pollen, so I'll be asking lots of questions about collection storage etc.
This is a great honor for me and I'm so grateful to be given the chance to try them.
They'll be in my 120x120 tent under two mars reflector 96x3
Pots will be 15 litre and soil will be plant magic
Nutes I will stick with what I know which believe it or not are from poundland, I have some buddastree supplements to try out too
Wish me luck everyone here we go four stones into soak
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Day 21 and all is well. Just wish the sun would show up again, we've had rain here for the past three days now. Anyway Dragons are all doing good and growing nicely.
I don't know if they're showing sex yet as my tired old eyes aren't working well this morning but I got some close up shots if anyone has keen eyes. They had they're first mini feed yesterday consisting of 3ml of formulex, 0.5ml of buddhastree solar green power and meta burst per 1000ml of water, and they got 500ml each
Here's some pics thanks for dropping by,
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The males develop alot faster than the girls. If you decide to keep him and use him for pollenation, just make sure he has some good traits. Vigor, symmetry, structure, good node spacing, leaf size and color(black, purple, or reddish hues) would be a bonus! You gonna try and grow him out? They should all show any day now!:thumbsup: Looking good man!
 
I was just going to keep one male out of any that showed, but now you mention it, size structure node spacing etc all comes into play.
So I will now probably harvest pollen from all the males I get carefully noting which is which and comparing it to grow records and pictures, that way like you say I can pick out the best donor male.
I have alternate space to put them so that's not a problem, I'll just crank up the tent and put them in there.
Thanks for the advice man, much appreciated....there's more to this breeding lark than just chucking pollen about isn't there
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Male Dragon's tend to have a decent amount of cannabinoids too, so keep the leaves for hash and oil!

I was just going to keep one male out of any that showed, but now you mention it, size structure node spacing etc all comes into play.
So I will now probably harvest pollen from all the males I get carefully noting which is which and comparing it to grow records and pictures, that way like you say I can pick out the best donor male.
I have alternate space to put them so that's not a problem, I'll just crank up the tent and put them in there.
Thanks for the advice man, much appreciated....there's more to this breeding lark than just chucking pollen about isn't there
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Male Dragon's tend to have a decent amount of cannabinoids too, so keep the leaves for hash and oil!

I've got into the habit now of keeping all my trim, fan leaves small leaves sugar leaves and small buds, and when I'm doing a final beauty trim as I call it everything gets kept and I even throw some of the smaller buds in. My intention is to make some oil with isopropyl alcohol and a slow cooker.
I've been doing some reading up on this and it seems a lot safer than trying to blow myself up with several cans of butane.
I have about 3 oz of trim so when I get back from Portugal I'll give it a go
 
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