Well here is my line of thinking on what I plan to do so please feel free to comment. I am doing an open pollinate in the small tent downstairs. I will be running either an ATF #1 female in there (more slender leaves, higher yield) or an ATF #2 female (faster grower but lost out on yield by about an ounce) right next to the ATF #4 male. This will give me a ton of ATF seeds for myself and some friends that might want some. I planned on picking the plant that I liked the high from better, but I honestly can't choose based on the high, so I am kind of leaning towards the higher yielder with everything else being relatively equal
For the upstairs tent, I plan to pollinate via the paint brush method (though I might add the paper bag over the branches I pollinate). I am going to do two colas on the Durban Poison, and Blue Kush. The reason I don't plan on doing an open pollinate is that I plan on stabilizing the crosses before I truly breed for seeds so I figured doing the whole plants would be a waste of a lot of potentially good bud. I am not sure how many seeds I will get from two colas of each but I figure its enough to be able to look for a decent male and female. From there I will breed those two. I might add a paper bag over the colas I do to try and keep the pollination more confined to the colas I want to make seeds. I will also be harvesting lots of the ATF #4 pollen and putting it in the freezer for storage for possible future uses.
Feel free to share any additional lessons learned with me. I figure this whole thing is a learning experience so I figure to screw stuff up, but anything i can do to minimize the amount of screw up will be great!
