Ravenplume
Well-Known Member
Time to get a new one going. My 2019 grow, from a couple opportunity seeds found in a bag of Tardis bought in December 2018 not only has been giving me some decent highs, but it is also providing plenty of seeds for experimentation on my path to breeding my first strain, which I will be calling Feyleaf. The flowers these came from were pollinated from the Sour Banana Sherbert plant that was also from an opportunity seed. Since they were seeds found in purchased bags, I am presuming that the pollen that made them is of unknown lineage, so I am considering the parent seeds to be half breeds, and the resulting seeds like wuarter each or something, siluted enough I can make it the base for my first breeding.
So to begin, on 24-JAN while processing a branch from the 2019 Tardis grow, I decided why not see if the seeds are good? So I filled a yogurt cup with warmish tap water, dumped in a small handful of seeds (later count revealed 26 total), and put them in the bottom drawer of a nightstand in my office area that I call the Rookery, and left them in total darkness, checking on them a couple times per day.
Then on the 27th, I opened the drawer to find this...
A whole bunch of new seedlings were born. Oh, next to them is another experiment. I wanted to see if I could get a seed to sprout by just planting it in dirt and bypassing the germinating pool altogether. No sign of life there yet, but it would probably take a few days for it to break the surface after sprouting.
Since I still needed to get a new 4 fingered DFL bulb for the sunlamp on the Rookery desk, I let them stay in darkness an extra day. So on the night of the 28th, I took a bunch of little plastic cups that I got from Dollar Tree, labeled them, and filled them with good rich soil from my front yard (startled a fat nightcrawler when I turned on the flashlight on it. Forgot how fast those buggers can be. In total, 19 seeds out of the 26 had germinated. Of those 19, 2 were victims of my clumsiness, and 17 were planted, numbered 00-16.
Here is how they were at bedtime that first night...
Next morning, the 29th, I noticed several of them were already starting to pop up. I should have snapped a picture of them at that point, but oops. So to finish for now, here is how they looked at bedtime tonight, which was about a half hour ago, after about 16 hours of light.
I have a feeling some of these are going to be properly upright by morning.
I'm hoping for at least one male out of these, possibly 2; which would be kept vegetative indoors until I'm ready to have one bust a nut on one select female. And that should give me a pure baseline to start with, which I will be named Feyleaf. I suppose that once I have my Ma and Pa plants chosen, the others can become the base for other lines. After all, in the two ounces we bought back in December, Sour Sunset, and Mr. Clean, I found opportunity seeds, and those will get started in Spring. I am thinking that if either turn out to be male, then they can be pollen donors for one or two others of these babies, and if female, a couple flowers of each can be pollenated by other male Feyleaf Candidates that we may have.
And I will say up front, I don't care what attributes the baseline Feyleaf has, as long s it gives decent smoke. And frankly, the only smoke I haven't particularly enjoyed was the Laughing Buddah, or Smiling Buddah, or whatever one was not the Indian nuke test. It is all good, and whatever I get will be fine as the base for further breedings.
I have to say, I am having a blast with this, and am finding it best to just wing it and experiment, and see what happens. Now for a good night's sleep, while still buzzing from that last bowl of Tardis Lite (what I am calling my smokable stuff from the Tardis grow, due to it being a half breed.
So to begin, on 24-JAN while processing a branch from the 2019 Tardis grow, I decided why not see if the seeds are good? So I filled a yogurt cup with warmish tap water, dumped in a small handful of seeds (later count revealed 26 total), and put them in the bottom drawer of a nightstand in my office area that I call the Rookery, and left them in total darkness, checking on them a couple times per day.
Then on the 27th, I opened the drawer to find this...
A whole bunch of new seedlings were born. Oh, next to them is another experiment. I wanted to see if I could get a seed to sprout by just planting it in dirt and bypassing the germinating pool altogether. No sign of life there yet, but it would probably take a few days for it to break the surface after sprouting.
Since I still needed to get a new 4 fingered DFL bulb for the sunlamp on the Rookery desk, I let them stay in darkness an extra day. So on the night of the 28th, I took a bunch of little plastic cups that I got from Dollar Tree, labeled them, and filled them with good rich soil from my front yard (startled a fat nightcrawler when I turned on the flashlight on it. Forgot how fast those buggers can be. In total, 19 seeds out of the 26 had germinated. Of those 19, 2 were victims of my clumsiness, and 17 were planted, numbered 00-16.
Here is how they were at bedtime that first night...
Next morning, the 29th, I noticed several of them were already starting to pop up. I should have snapped a picture of them at that point, but oops. So to finish for now, here is how they looked at bedtime tonight, which was about a half hour ago, after about 16 hours of light.
I have a feeling some of these are going to be properly upright by morning.
I'm hoping for at least one male out of these, possibly 2; which would be kept vegetative indoors until I'm ready to have one bust a nut on one select female. And that should give me a pure baseline to start with, which I will be named Feyleaf. I suppose that once I have my Ma and Pa plants chosen, the others can become the base for other lines. After all, in the two ounces we bought back in December, Sour Sunset, and Mr. Clean, I found opportunity seeds, and those will get started in Spring. I am thinking that if either turn out to be male, then they can be pollen donors for one or two others of these babies, and if female, a couple flowers of each can be pollenated by other male Feyleaf Candidates that we may have.
And I will say up front, I don't care what attributes the baseline Feyleaf has, as long s it gives decent smoke. And frankly, the only smoke I haven't particularly enjoyed was the Laughing Buddah, or Smiling Buddah, or whatever one was not the Indian nuke test. It is all good, and whatever I get will be fine as the base for further breedings.
I have to say, I am having a blast with this, and am finding it best to just wing it and experiment, and see what happens. Now for a good night's sleep, while still buzzing from that last bowl of Tardis Lite (what I am calling my smokable stuff from the Tardis grow, due to it being a half breed.
