You got it going on over here my friend...... Alot of talk about this Wedding Cake Strain. I've seen afew growers working with it, and most have had a good looking plant to show for it too. I wanted to thank ya for that Wildberry. I had a piece of buddage dry enough to do alittle sample on it tonight. Uncured and bearly dry enough to smoke, she's Good Pot...... I still have one in flower. She still has a week, 2 max left, and if she works into a finished product like I think she will be,, I might have to reveg it. So far she's holding her own against the Black Dog in my eyes. I also have that Plucking Genius strain in veg. I guess I'll get a cut of her before I flower her out.
Interesting stuff about that polyploidism. They say you can make one using that nasty shit, but you can't use the product off that plant,,, but you can use the seeds.. Have you ever looked at that Breeder, Billy Budd I think here's alittle copy-paste of some of his shit. I guess you can buy clones from him in Canada but I'm thinking about getting a book he's got to do alittle old fashion reading;
Produce Tetraploid:
There are several methods of producing tetraploids involving different chemicals including. Caffeine, Orzalin and Colchicine.
The most effective method is, in my opinion, using Colchicine on the seeds and not on the plant. This is because treating the seeds will allow for the penetration of the chemical into all cells within the organism. Treating the plant will result in a polyploid that will eventually revert to diploid status. EXTREME WARNING: Colchicine is a deadly chemical and should not be used without proper ventilation, gloves and mask.
DMSO (Dimethyl Sulfoxide) can be added to the solution to enhance the penetration of the chemical being employed.
Prepare 3 different Colchicine solutions: .05%, .10% and .20%. This will allow for wider spectrum of experimentation but usually, the .10% solution works best.
Prepare three different trays of seeds for each solution strength.
Soak the seeds in solution for 24 hours. Hundreds of seeds will probably be required just to make a few tetraploids.
Germinate seeds in the normal fashion.
Check the taproot size to determine if the polyploid conversion was successful. The taproot will be swollen compare to diploid taproots.
Treatment of the seeds will result in most of the seeds either dying due to toxicity or not converting to tetraploid due to a weak solution.
Fully grown the tetraploids will display the typical tetraploids features: ducksfoot, double leaf sets, bonsai appearance, giantism.
Well, I'm outta here... Girls are looking like a blizzard hit them over here............... GL and Keepem Green
