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Is it ok to use 200 PPM?
I'm not sure, I would have to look into it.
If I can recall, what I remember reading was around 50 PPM is ideal. You could always dilute the 200ppm using distilled water
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Is it ok to use 200 PPM?
One of the best posts I have read on here. Thanks and very well explained.
I just started spraying a NYC diesel auto so glad you took the time to do this.
Just wondering if you ever heard of using the natural feminised seed spray. I seen it after I ordered my C/S
Thanks
Wouldn't that just be grand? Ah yes, I second this option!
Ice mud. Hoping you can help. I wanted to know whether or not I can take two feminized seeds of the same strain and use the colloidal silver on one and take the pollen from that plant and pollinate the other.
An example would be if I had two blue dreams. I would take one use the silver spray grow the pollen sacs and then with the other plant that I did not use the silver spray on polinate the flower to grow the seed of the same strain. I hope that makes sense I didn't know if I had to Cross it with a different strain. Or if I could just produce a reliable way to continuously get seed from the Strain I enjoy.
Looking forward to your reply! Thank you
sorry to hear of your issues Brotha I know youll work it out
on another note I'm finally going to get my ass to a cannabis cup
my flight and hotel is already booked for march weekend in vegas
I just gotta buy my cup ticket but I'm going to vegas either way
maybe you can make it there hell everyone likes going to vegas
well maybe cept me I'm not big on gambling lol
Great weekend to ya brother
"Road trip! Hell yeah!" Good luck fellers, and have fun. Hey Icemud- sorry to hear about the issues. I've read all of your journals and honestly started following you a long time ago on YouTube way back when you had tested your MarsHydro LED's (Topledlights back then) and then Advanced LED,and so on...I purchased my first MarsII lights after watching your video's and then "googled" your name wich eventually lead me to find your journal's on 420mag.com and all of these other great growers! I fell in love with the way people all came together here to share their adventures and knowledge of our beloved plant. I guess i just wanted to say thanks because if you hadn't taken the time, and the tremendous effort to document your grows as well as you have, i may have never googled you further to eventually find this site. Keep up the good fight my brotha....i considered you to be one of the "great-ones" of 420mag back then, as I still believe you to be now. I'm looking forward to seeing how and what you do next. Hope you dont mind me taking up a chair here in the back of the room and watching the show. Maybe one day I'll get myself a journal together and give back to some of the others who may be new to the site the same way that you and so many others have given back to me. Sorry for draggin on...just wanted to share, take care.
Im out, Sparks
Ok, lemme recite this back to you because I think I understand what you are asking but want to make sure...
So you have strain "A" that you like and you want to make seeds of it...
So you take two clones of "A", lets call them "B" and "C"
You grow B and C out and when you are ready you spray "B" with colloidal silver so it develops pollen.
Then you use "B's" pollen to pollinate "C".
and you are asking if this will work to create seeds of A?
If I got your question right then the answer is Yes, you can use 2 clones of the same plant (B and C), using CS on one of them to pollinate the other.... The results will be feminized seeds...
Now...
Will the offspring of B+C be identical to A? Not exactly.
How close the offspring of B+C are to A depends on how stable plant A's genetics were. Strain A will have dominant and recessive traits so depending on which ones are showing in plant A, the offspring of B+C may exhibit these traits, and may exhibit traits that were recessive in plant A, but came from plant A's parents.
So ideally what you would want to do is keep plant A as a mother plant, in a separate grow area. Once you are done breeding plant B with plant C you have the F1 seeds.
Now you would want to plant these F1 seeds, at least a good handful of them, label each one of the F1's, and take a clone of each one.. (label it).
Grow out the F'1s all the way through harvest and take note on which F'1 was most like the parent (in flavor, trichome production, plant shape, height, looks...etc...) find the best F1 that is closest to the original plant A, with the traits you like and then you will want to take the F1 clone, and you will want to breed it back with Plant A. This should ensure that a majority of the offspring of F1+A share those favored traits. This next batch then would be F2 and most of these should showcase those specific traits that you like... if not, then you may need to repeat the process, each time selecting the favorite offspring, and breeding it with plant A (the original mother).
The more you do this, the more the offspring become stable.
Now I am still learning about selective breeding and "working a strain" to get it to breed true, so I would definitely seek a second opinion to make sure that I have this correct as well as its still fairly new to me. With the use of Genetic mapping and marking, this process can be made much quicker by being able to read the plants genetic profile and tell exactly what traits you will get out of that plant... so instead of planting a room full over thousands of plants looking for that 1 perfect phenotype, now they can read the genetics and do this with less plants. There are also other methods that will be introduced to cannabis in the very near future that are used on other plants which can pretty much make this a 1x cross and you get true breeding right away... but there are only a handful of people on earth that can do this, and it doesn't work on all plants. Its common though on crops like corn.