. My wife has a OCD for cleanliness. When I was growing in CoCo she was pissed.
. I'm just looking at these plants grow everyday and fast too, faster than soil/coco mediums. I don't think I'll ever go back to growing weed in soil or coco. I've always heard of people growing weed in water when I was a kid and thought those people were scientists but to do it myself and it be so easy makes me regret not growing Hydroponically to begin with but in a good way I learned about different mediums how they work and how to use them. These plants were not well taken care of at first I didn't have covers for the net pots so I just gave them a tea for about 2 weeks. I gave them a feed at 515 ppm a few days ago and their doing fine. I look forward to finishing this one soon and get the next round of autos going along side with some Photoperiods I'd like to preserve. I honestly don't care much for Auto's I just think they're pretty cool so I'll be taking a clone from the Photoperiods I preserve to cross with a male autoflower.
The plan is to repro some of the photoperiod seeds I've collected over the years starting with Landraces, Mutants and then Purple Polyhybrids. I'll have Autoflower's breeding into higher f-gens and then back and forth from different gens. while doing a repro I'll throw a clone in with the autoflowers. I really dont have a plan for the Auto/Photo crosses other than something I can come back to when I'm finished with the repro of Photoperiods. I don't plan on crossing the Photoperiods with the other Photoperiods. There are a few Auto/Photo crosses that would peak my interest over others and makes me wonder how they would turn out if worked into an Autoflower version but that's in hindsight of these Photo repros. I'm waiting on a few more things before starting these Photoperiods. As for the Hydroponics thing it seems pretty simple enough that I don't see a need in waiting until these Autos are finished to get started.
Organic growing seems even better. That's just water and go right? Everything is already in the soil?
Wow! Your killing it pat! Those are spears! What's the makeup of Blue water? I love seeing people create new crosses, I hope to do so myself later on at some point but for the last few years I've just been repro.Yeah, I would add everything in, macros and micros and let cook. Then my planters had a drip irrigation, so it was pretty hands off.
This is a cross I made of Blue Cheese×Mango×Blue Water.
That Breeding things does become an addiction.. I figured once Im done my repro's I can just have fun and let the plants do their own thing but as of right now it's important to me to get this out the way as quickly as possible. I don't plan to veg very long nor do I care for any buds. Once the seeds are mature I plan to cut them down and go on to the next. I love seeing people create strains, my goal one day is to provide people with free genetics by sharing and trading with others so that others who dont have much money can get a chance to grow a strain from a pack of seeds that they normally wouldn't have been able to afford. That's my end goal.Well, blue water? From my recollection it was a pack of seeds I picked up on a trek to northern California. It was established by a company/dude called Red Line Genetics. They acquired a Blue Dream (Santa Cruz cut) which is more of a sativa leaning pheno of the Blue Dream strain, and they crossed it with Sour Tsunami. Hence the monicker Blue Water.
It came out as a 1:1 and a superb smoke but taller than anything I had ever grown. It is definitely not an indoor strain.
That strain in the pic was made by an initial cross of a Blue Cheese female with the pollen of a short Mango male. Occasionally there would be a short male that came out and wondered what would happen if I bred with it. The off spring grow about 2'-3' tall with about foot long buds the girth if a soda can, but solid fox tail. It's great racey smoke, but terrible for joints. It actually is supreme extract bud.
Then the Blue Water came along and I made a cross with the short Blue Cheese×Mango and got that strain. Not all crosses are great. Just because I take two fire strains and cross them it's not guaranteed to be fire.
I crossed a strain that tasted like fruity pebbles (not fruit pebble strain) and crossed it with a Lavender×Skunk strain and got a 4' tall plant outdoors that yield near 2 lbs., but the smoke brings a very mild high. There is the whole genetic roll of the dice, and who knows what you're going to get. Just keep working with the crosses and take notes of what you do, and how you arrived at a certain strain.
Thank you for your compliments. I currently am not growing and focusing on building a home after our move to an illegal state. It's cool though. I gotta care for my family and make sure the wife and kids are well and taken care of. I still have all my crosses, and last time I checked there was around 18 crosses I was working with and trashed, but held on to...or thinking of what I can cross to make it better. I still have seeds I haven't even tested and numbered at least in to the thousands...more than I could ever grow. Once you start breeding it becomes a sickness, and there's an addiction that becomes insatiable. Best of luck to you and I can't wait to see what becomes of your adventure. It is definitely fun and well worth it. Just talking about it makes me get that breeding itch...
