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What Sinsemillas said! x2 lolThey look heavy. +reps for the joy of watching marihuana, at is best
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What Sinsemillas said! x2 lolThey look heavy. +reps for the joy of watching marihuana, at is best
What Sinsemillas said! x2 lol
very nice my friend,
bit late for the grow but im here for the end results,
sounds like you got a good yield as well then,
ive not long planted some new strains and some crosses i made myself so got a lot going on again, i keep planting to many seeds and having to many plants, ill cut my next grow down and go with longer veg times, might even do a 3ft by 3ft scrog, not sure yet depends how much work i got to do on these new strains
the first cross you make is going to be stable and produce a stable plant, you may have a few pheno types but seeds from seed banks have anything from 2 to 5 or more pheno types, some breeders list this and others dont, so you might buy 10 seeds and if you flowered them all at the same time you could end up with 4 plants that look nothing like each other.
so i just crossed a gdp male with auto purple cheese fem and im growing out the seeds now, a 1/4 will be auto so for now if i get a male and female auto ill cross these to produce an auto without worrying about pheno type with that at the minute, but with the none auto seeds ill grow them out and find the pheno type i like and clone it and also cross this with the bets male,
from them seeds ill grow them out and see what pheno they produce and how stabe they are, if its not that stable and im not getting a good % of the pheno i like then ill cross the male from that batch with the first clone, that should then give a higher % of the pheno in the next batch of seeds, so what your doing is backcrossing the seeds with the original pheno type your trying to keep, each cross will get more of the pheno your trying to produce
im still in the learning phase so by no way an expert on breeding, but ive done lots of reading and crossed lots of plants now to produce seeds so im at the stage where i can pick what i like and work with that to try and produce what i like in seed form
the other option would be to use 2 females of the pheno type you like then force one hermie and use the pollen on the other female and produce female seeds of that pheno type, that should give you a pretty stable strain
but if you just wanted to produce seeds you would pick the best of the best and cross them with each other, that should give you good results, with plants ive crossed ive not had any poor results and its usually pretty stable but ive not worked with different pheno types as ive been very happy with everything grown,
so as im trying to creat a really nice auto that yields well then i need to work with the best males and females and then work with the best pheno type from the seeds, i also want a nice cheese strain so thought the gdp cheese sounded nice,
ive still got pollen from the gdp male so can cross with with the big buddha cheese when its grown as thats suppose to be the same as the true uk cheese.
i just crossed the gdp male as i kept getting males, but i know everyone loves the ken estes gdp so i used that to cross with the purple cheese auto so i wont know till the plants grow if that was a good cross or not as ive never seen a gdp female in person, im going off other journals and smoke reports, so its a bit of a lucky dip this one, all i could do was keep the pollen from the best male and cross it with a nice female plant when i found one, i found that purple cheese auto was very stinky but it was an auto, but as only 1/4 of the seeds will be auto then im hoping most of the seeds will be not auto and i can then find the best pheno type and cross that with the best male, then work on back crossing it to try and produce a really nice gdp cheese strain.
if you use your search engine and search for this,
marajuana botany, an advanced study.
another grower called miwa found that grow guide and it goes into detail about crossing so you will learn a lot from that, its a free online grow book and it tells you all about pheno types and how to go about producing stable results so it can tell you a lot more than i can, plus its full of lots of other great info like grafting and air layering so that would be a good place to start,
i mean i started crossing seeds of the same strain so i could keep that strain in stock so i can grow it when i like as i came across an amazing strain that i was sent as a sample but i was never told if it was relaesed, so i crossed a male and female from the batch and produced more seeds of that strain, it was ak47 x uk cherry cheese, its a really nice strain but cant find it for sale anywhere, so thats what started me crossing plants, i wondered what results id get if i worked with the best female and male and i found i was geting nice results, so im just taking it a step further now so i can actually produce a few stable strains of my own, i want a stable auto femenised, a stable cheese strain and a stable purple strain, so im just really getting my feet wet and diving in at the deep end,
its a big learning curve but my problem is i dont have time to grow all the strains out that i produce, ive got tubs of seeds that ive not even tried myself yet, ive been able to let a few friends try them so i can see how they grow for them and how they produce as i just not had time to grow them out with all the other strains ive been growing,
so try and find that grow guide as it will go into detail about the info you want, if youve not crossed before then just choose the best male and female and cross them that will give you plenty of seeds, then you can either grow them out as they are or you can try and pick out the best pheno type and work with that,
What will you guys check regarding males? Just general health or there are certain things to look for?
I can't find that post you refer to Med =(
That book is nice thanks for the tip!
What geographical location are you in?I wish i was your friend in the real life if you get me... i would try your strains with no problem, especially that Ak 47 x Uk Cherry Cheese (By the way , Ak-47 is one of my favorite strains).
I would like you to try my seeds after i have some mine... so excited to cross nice strains with CBD rich strains.
Good luck with all the that work man!!
One important question: If i cross for example one Aurora Indica male with a CBD CREW Skunk Haze female (a CBD rich pheno) can i get for example a mix of smell from Aurora Indica and Skunk Haze like Hashy smell with Hazy smell... and still have the High CBD? I would like to have a bunch of CBD strains made by me , i will do Thc ones too ,no doubt.
What geographical location are you in?
I dont want to say the country , man.
But im in Europe
im also in europe,
the first cross you make is going to be pretty stable, it will produce many pheno types but should be pretty consistent with the first batch of seeds, so if thats the thing you want to do then it wont hurt crossing them 2 strains, what i do is grow the male in another room, i keep it in the flower room until its ready to open the pollen sacs then i place it in a room with just light from a window, then the pollen sacs will open before it goes back into veg or it will continue to flower depending on the natural light hours, i then collect this pollen by tapping the plant while holding a pot under the male flowers, once ive collected the pollen i use a fine brush or cotton bud or que tip as their called in some countries and pollenate the female,
its best to take the female out of the flower room and take it to the room with the pollen in it, that all i do is brush pollen on the pistils on the lower buds, this lets me harvest and smoke the rest of the plant but will still produce plant of seeds, then leave the female where it is and after 3 or 4 hours give it a good spray down with water using a spray bottle, this will kill any pollen so when you put the fem back in the flower room you dont end up with pollen everywhere,
so if its just seeds your after then either cross a male and fem from the same strain but make sure you pick the best strongest male and you pick the pheno type of the female you like and then produce some seeds, this first cross will be stable and will produce nice plants.
if you wanted to cross 2 different strains then the female is usually the strongest genetic that comes out so make sure you pick a good strong male from the other strain or if you only have 1 male then you got no option but to use it, so again this first cross will be pretty stable so if its just seeds your after then just cross the 2 and grow the seeds and im sure you will be very happy with the results.
at the minute ive just crossed ken estes gdp male with a purple cheese auto,
this gives me seeds and 1/4 will be auto, so ill grow out the seeds which ive got a few growing now and hopefully ill have a male auto to collect pollen from and a female auto, as only 1/4 of the seeds are auto ill cross any male and female that are auto just to get the 100% auto seeds, then i can work with them seeds and try and produce a nice gdp cheese, ive got a kc45 auto male that ive been collecting pollen from for the last week and its over 2.5ft tall so its a good male to use for auto pollen so ill keep that pollen in case the gdp cheese auto is not a big yielding plant,
the none auto seeds from that same cross ill pick the pheno types i like and clone the ones i want to keep, then ill cross these with the best male of the batch and then the seeds from the 2nd cross ill pick the pheno again and back cross it with the original clone, then its a case of doing this until the pheno type i want is the main pheno in the seeds, it cant take several generations to get it right, plus if the gdp cheese has not got the punch of the uk cheese then ill throw a uk cheese into the mix and then work with the seeds to bring out the cheese in the strain,
ill possibly to this with the auto as well but im a long way off from getting these strains stable, i might be blown away with the plants anyway so it all depends on the end results and how these plants turn out, ive got one other person growing these gdp cheese as well as its good to get a second oppinion,
but so far ive had good results, ive not had time to grow out all the crosses i have made so a couple of friends are growing out some of the crosses ive not tried mysef,
but if its something you want to do then just be careful with the pollen, it can easily turn a whole grow room to seed, so keep the male away from the females when the pollen sacs open, move the female out the flower room when you put pollen on it then leave it in the same room you put the pollen on and a few hours later give everything a good spray down with water to kill any pollen that might be on the plant,
remember it can get on your clothes and skin so its best to change your clothes before going near the other females, the only way you will turn the whole room to see is if the male opens in the flower room or if their is pollen left on the female and the fans blow it around the flower room,
you have many options, you could try fem seeds as well, if you have a nice female that you want seeds from then you can self polinate, ive not tried this so cant say how well it works but others have and say it works well,
when i produced fem seeds i used 2 females from the same strain that was identical pheno types, i hermied the one female to produce fem pollen and put this on the lower buds of the other fem, the seeds from that cross produce the same plant every time, ive got one growing now and nearly ready to harvest, every time ive grown these fem seeds the buds and plants have been the same every time,
so im not 100% sure how the pheno works with fem seeds or if its stable as long as you cross the same pheno type, but the fem seeds ive made seem to be the same every time, ive not had any differences in end results,
Already tried a sample before harvest... Not a High CBD pheno thats for sure... Very heady sativa type of high.
But no problem, now i have 4 CBD Skunk Haze seeds, the Thc pheno is more rare than the CBD ones...