Growchy's Purple Series - Purpletually Purple

I have seen more GDPs from Ken come out green lately but I would like to stick with his stock. It is great that Nukeheads says they have made seeds with his stock. That is great but if they really just F2'd them and want more than Ken's own than it is a little pointless. Even over seas I can get kens for $140 for a pack of 10 regs or the same price for a pack of 6 fems. $23.33 for the fems as opposed to $30 per seed from someone that just carried on the work... For the regs its 14 a seed as opposed to 24. There is a seed bank in the US that carries his gear and its $100 per 10 pack. They just never have the GDP or the grandpa larry.

PotChimp has been breeding his GDP for a couple years now. I think he lost his original clone he had kept around from the original pack, which is unfortunate as it was gorgeous, but he has an S1 that is nearly as nice. None of his other S1s look as good for whatever reason. They all seem to produce good amounts of frost but most do not seem to have the color.

It is great that you are continuing the line Chris!
 
It really should be an IBL at this point if the male and female are from his stock, I guess there could be some variations, but wouldn't the original parents' offspring be the f1 and their offspring the f2? I guess I would know if I knew whether kens is an ibl or if he's keeping the original parents around to constantly recreate the f1s... all very confusing lol
 
It is very confusing. Most breeders seem to just keep the original parents around to just keep pumping out the F1s. There are some breeders that will take it further. Dynasty is one of the breeders that seems to tweak their line all the time trying to make their strains more stable and even better than before. From what I understand the F2 generation usually varies widely, so a lot of breeders do not go to it so that they can have a smaller number of phenos show up in the gene-pool thus making it seem more stable. The F2 generation is supposed to be where the magic happens though. You tend to see traits from not just the parental strains but from the grand parents of the strain you are running. With this possibility open there is more variation, but you have the chance to find a very unique gem. After the F2 generation most breeders will either back cross or continue on to F3 depending on what they want to do. If the F3 is done correctly you should start to see less variation again unless they did an open pollination.

At least this is how I understand it all and I may be wrong. i have yet to chuck any pollen of my own. Any seeds I have ever made have all been accidental pollinations usually due to bananas forming.
 
It could be they kept p1 and 2 going and that's why we're seeing some variances, but it could go that way if they're an IBL and not knowing what traits the male actually carries. I'm just getting my feet wet with breeding but I can easily see myself dedicating a LOT of time to it lol
 
That's the way I understand it basically. A true IBL is much more involved and could go to 6-8 generations. After the third or 4th generations breeding 1 male and 1 female sibling the line is split and each line continues separately. Once you see the traits you want showing up in both lines then a male from 1 line and a female from the second line are crossed. Making a brand new IBL
 
Yeah there is a lot to it. Not knowing what the male may add or what he will take away is an issue in my opinion. Ethos was talking about this being the biggest issues with male/female breeding and thats why he likes to reverse one girl and hit another that is nearly identical. He calls it R1 the first time instead of S1 due to the fact he is not pollinating one clone with another from the same mom.

Here are some pictures of my slurricane. I have never had frost like this!

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That is at 7 and a half weeks. The frost has been building like that since week 3 or 4. It has looked done since week 6 and has just kept adding frost and color since then!
 
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