Colombian Gold Grow: Come Learn With Me How To Produce Your Own Seeds!

[beez0404]

I'm glad you guys enjoyed the thread and some found it helpful/useful. I've not quit seed making. As a matter of fact I'm currently reversing a Chemdawg plant to make seeds. And you can follow along on the thread of @MrGreene . He is reversing a @SeedsMan Gelat.OG plant to make seeds. Come by and say hello!

 

[Mark Gordan Smith]

Plus it’s great to have it as a resource for as long as this forum exists. I know many folks will be referring back to it and sending others here for sometime to come.

Enjoyed being in here a time or two, beez has made a great thread to follow.

 

[Hash Hound]

Colo Gold started 12/12 from seed in a 2g pot. 1 week from seeing hairs.

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• Hash Hound
• Mar 16, 2019

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• Hash Hound
• Mar 16, 2019

 

[beez0404]

Is it performing how you had hoped? Are you enjoying that sweet smell?

About 10 weeks from now you'll get to taste it too. Very nice.

 

[Hash Hound]

I wanted to keep her in check and stay small, but this one seems a bit under sized compared to other CG's I've started 12/12 from seed. A compact fat sativa? oooh ya, bring it on!
and I love the smell.

 

[beez0404]

I harvested some Colombian Gold back on February 11th, dried it in the fridge till the 25th of February. From there it went into mason jars with Boost packs. I burped them every other day till they got as dry as I like them and then I sealed the lids tight until today. That was back on March 2nd. So today the cure was in day 24 and I was pleasantly surprised that the buds still had a sweet aroma to them. I sealed the jars back up and will let them cure for another two weeks and then give it a try.

 

[InTheShed]

Nothing wrong with pleasantly surprised! Nice .

 

[Amy Gardner]

for another two weeks and then give it a try

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

Hope all is well in your world.

Thanks for sharing this grow with us.

Please head over to the 420 Strain Reviews forum and post your smoke report there too.

I’m moving this to Completed Journals now.

Sending you lots of love and positive energy.

 

[The Bard]

Blazinjones or James Joyce?

What made you pick STS over CS?

Just working my way through this thread - great information everyone, I am learning a lot.

But I have to say, @InTheShed, you win the prize for this quote. ha!

 

[InTheShed]

Oh thanks for posting here! Maybe this will remind beez that he still has a thread he can post his plant pics in .

 

[Dutchman1990]

Oh thanks for posting here! Maybe this will remind beez that he still has a thread he can post his plant pics in .

He could always make a new journal!

 

[Amy Gardner]

...some of those seeds must be growing out somewhere

 

[Ganjagrowergu]

He could always make a new journal!

I know I would follow along, he grows beautiful plants and makes it look easy..

...some of those seeds must be growing out somewhere

Maybe a few... with an ever-expanding personal collection of genetics, I have a hard time testing everything I recieve. Perhaps others have similar issues and that is why we haven't seen any grown out, yet...

Beez graciously posts pics over in my journal, y'all should see the Hash he has been making

 

[The Bard]

I got to page 57 of 96 last night - great read! Looking forward to finishing it up tonight or over the weekend. Small bottle of colloidal silver now in Amazon cart... future project!

 

[The Bard]

Whew! 96 pages of amazing information!! I really learned a lot along the way - a little about cloning, but a LOT about reversing, crossing, and just general cultivation. So thanks very much @beez0404 and everyone else who contributed to make this tutorial so helpful.

PS: does anyone else think of Felix and Oscar with the banter between @beez0404 and @InTheShed

 

[The Bard]

Whew! 96 pages of amazing information!! Read all of it over the past several days, and I really learned a lot along the way - a little about cloning, but a LOT about reversing, crossing, and just general cultivation. So thanks very much @beez0404 and everyone else who contributed to make this tutorial so helpful. Kind of sad that it is over, though. All good things must come to an end, I guess.

I am gearing up to give it a go myself. Colloidal silver and paint-brushes on the way. Going to try reversing an auto for pollen.

PS: does anyone else think of Felix and Oscar when reading the banter between @beez0404 and @InTheShed? Loved it! The "James Joyce" quote got the best laugh from me of all the 96 pages, though.

 

[beez0404]

Let's see what happens. Recently I was gifted a very special Gorilla Glue #4 clone. I began treating her in veg with colloidal silver back on 5/15 the day I up-potted her into her final 3 gallon pot. Seven day later, on 5/22 I flipped her and continued the 2 a day application of the CS both at lights on and lights out. Tonight, finally I finally spotted what I believe (under magnification) the start of pollen sacks. I'll be able to tell for sure in 4-5 days, but I'm pretty darn sure lady luck has smiled again. Here is a pic of the plant snapped tonight right before lights out. Second photo shows what I believe to be a pollen sack. I saw a good number of these at various places on the branch and side branches I've been treating.

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• beez0404
• Jun 8, 2019
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• beez0404
• Jun 8, 2019

 

[The Bard]

Let's see what happens. Recently I was gifted a very special Gorilla Glue #4 clone. I began treating her in veg with colloidal silver back on 5/15 the day I up-potted her into her final 3 gallon pot. Seven day later, on 5/22 I flipped her and continued the 2 a day application of the CS both at lights on and lights out. Tonight, finally I finally spotted what I believe (under magnification) the start of pollen sacks. I'll be able to tell for sure in 4-5 days, but I'm pretty darn sure lady luck has smiled again. Here is a pic of the plant snapped tonight right before lights out. Second photo shows what I believe to be a pollen sack. I saw a good number of these at various places on the branch and side branches I've been treating.

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• beez0404
• Jun 8, 2019
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• beez0404
• Jun 8, 2019

Nice to see you post here again! I just finished reading this whole journal over the past couple of days, and wanted to say thanks to you, and other contributors. Was really well-written and documented, and gave me a strong motivation to try the reversing technique.

I do have a question, and if this isn't the right place to post it, please let me know. I recall that somewhere in the past 90+ pages, both you and @Pennywise mentioned that some cultivars are easier than others to reverse. And some just don't reverse at all, despite best efforts. Can either of you share a little more? In particular, strains that are unlikely to succeed in your experience, or those that are relatively easy? I have a small number of DDA that I got from forum sponsor @Gary from The Vault, which is one candidate. I also have a few other autos from another sponsor, @DrSeeds (specifically Cream, Super Skunk, and Jack Herrer). Any of these strike you as good candidates for my first attempt at reversing? Of course, it looks like you successfully reversed a DDA as the prologue to this journal, so that is one I was think of.

Is it true/accurate that the plant that plays the female role tends to dominate the outcome of the cross, whereas the cultivar that has been reverse is less dominant? Since each parent is giving chromosomes to the offspring, I am not sure why that would be the case, but it was something that I came across in researching this concept, elsewhere.

Finally, I also came across a mention elsewhere that self-crossing (i.e. reversing one branch, and then using the pollen to fertilize a bud elsewhere on the same plant) can lead to less stable, or at least less vigorous, offspring. If I just wanted to make lots of DDA seeds, as an example, would I be better off to grow two plants, reverse one, and then pollenate the other?

Ok, I guess that was a lot more than "one question," but hope you will have the opportunity answer any that you find of interest. Of course, advice and suggestions from anyone else reading this would be great.

Thanks again for all the knowledge that you and others have so generously shared here.

Have a great weekend!

 

[beez0404]

both you and @Pennywise mentioned that some cultivars are easier than others to reverse. And some just don't reverse at all, despite best efforts.

It would be fantastic if there was a list of strains that are easy to reverse as well as hard to reverse. So far I have had success reversing 9 of 10 plants on which I've tried the colloidal silver. The one strain I was not able to reverse was Blueberry by the breeder DJ Short. Now to be honest this was the second plant I worked with to make S1 seeds. Back then I only treated the plant once a day ( I now do it at lights on and lights off) and the colloidal silver I used back then was probably 10-15 ppm where the stuff I use now is 50 ppm. So was it the strain or was it my method or maybe a combination of the two? One thing that is very important...….you must be diligent and not miss applications. And trust me after you've been applying the CS on a plant for 3 or 4 weeks and you're seeing no results it can get a little frustrating. But if you have the right colloidal silver and put forth the effort you'll get rewarded with boy parts.

Is it true/accurate that the plant that plays the female role tends to dominate the outcome of the cross, whereas the cultivar that has been reverse is less dominant? Since each parent is giving chromosomes to the offspring, I am not sure why that would be the case, but it was something that I came across in researching this concept, elsewhere.

I personally believe that the female (my opinion) plant does show more traits then the male providing the pollen. I have no formal training nor any scientific facts to substantiate this other then the offspring and how they grow out.

Finally, I also came across a mention elsewhere that self-crossing (i.e. reversing one branch, and then using the pollen to fertilize a bud elsewhere on the same plant) can lead to less stable, or at least less vigorous, offspring. If I just wanted to make lots of DDA seeds, as an example, would I be better off to grow two plants, reverse one, and then pollenate the other?

So basically you're wondering about the quality of the pollen produced by a plant that is reversed? Let me ask you this. If I were to take two cuttings off say a Blueberry plant, got them to root. Then used the CS on one branch of just one of the two Blueberry plants to reverse it. And had success and produced pollen. If I were to apply that pollen to buds on both plants do you think the plants from the resulting seeds would be inferior from the seeds from the reversed plant? The S1 mother? Consider that both are genetically identical except for the branch or reversed parts of the plant so I would expect both to grow exactly alike and have found this to be true.
Last year I reversed a Sensi Seeds Northern Lights plant to produce pollen. I used this pollen on the mother to make S1 fem seeds but also used her pollen to make several crosses and all continue to be successful. One of the best to date that I've made was the pollination of a Dark Devil auto with pollen from that Sensi NL plant. There are two phenos a purple one and a green one. Both smell very similar (amazing) and both grow the same plant structure. But there is a purple pheno which is just so so at best. BUT, the green pheno is very nice quality smoke. The cross I did using the Sensi NL mother pollen with a Nirvana NL IBL resulted in gigantic seeds that produce vigorous, hardy plants that produce delicious rock hard nuggets.

Hope that helps answer your questions. I think S1 seeds perform quite well in my opinion. If they didn't most seed banks would be out of business.