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UPDATE ON BREEDING PLANS
So, I've been struggling a little bit to get my head back around the plans for the breeding program. It really threw things off when those Pine Tar Kush plants weren't ready a few weeks ago and I decided to pop all those other seeds and THEN agreed to do the sponsored grow and popped another six seeds.
While it has me overloaded with plants for some period of time, it also gave me some time to re-evaluate and get back on my original track.
I need to focus on the "Bonsai Sultan Method" which involves flowering only ONE male per cycle and using that male to pollinate all the females. In that small breeding cabinet, with multiple males, I'd never know what was pollinated by what, and even just flowering multiple males with no females, there would likely be cross contamination of the pollen, if I tried to collect pollen.
So, I really need to get all of these plants sexed first, figure out how many & which are males, then start figuring out how I want to schedule the cycles. That, of course, means that, even though I'm over-run with plants, I basically need to clone everything and sex them.
With that in mind, the PTK's were finally ready to clone and I did take cuts from PTK's #1, #2 & #4. PTK #3 was the conjoined twin and will need to be sexed at some point but won't be used for the breeding.
The other plants that were started from reg seeds giving the possibility of males are: (2) Trainwreck, (2) Apricot Jelly, (1) Black Cherry Jelly, & (2) Zephyrus. So, that's another seven plants that will need to be cloned & sexed, but they won't be ready to clone for another week or two.
Any that turn out to be females can still be crossed with whatever male is being run for that cycle, but I do want to make sure I limit it to one male per run.
The good news is that, with the current run of Platinum Kush Breath, and the sponsored grow starting right behind it, it will probably be 12 weeks, or more, until I can risk having pollen flying around, so that should be plenty of time to get everything cloned and sexed, and get a new set of clones (if needed) ready for the first breeding run.
I'm still unsure if I'm going to flower out all the female clones first or just pollinate everything and flower them out later to see what I've got?
Happy Harvests!
K
So, I've been struggling a little bit to get my head back around the plans for the breeding program. It really threw things off when those Pine Tar Kush plants weren't ready a few weeks ago and I decided to pop all those other seeds and THEN agreed to do the sponsored grow and popped another six seeds.
While it has me overloaded with plants for some period of time, it also gave me some time to re-evaluate and get back on my original track.
I need to focus on the "Bonsai Sultan Method" which involves flowering only ONE male per cycle and using that male to pollinate all the females. In that small breeding cabinet, with multiple males, I'd never know what was pollinated by what, and even just flowering multiple males with no females, there would likely be cross contamination of the pollen, if I tried to collect pollen.
So, I really need to get all of these plants sexed first, figure out how many & which are males, then start figuring out how I want to schedule the cycles. That, of course, means that, even though I'm over-run with plants, I basically need to clone everything and sex them.
With that in mind, the PTK's were finally ready to clone and I did take cuts from PTK's #1, #2 & #4. PTK #3 was the conjoined twin and will need to be sexed at some point but won't be used for the breeding.
The other plants that were started from reg seeds giving the possibility of males are: (2) Trainwreck, (2) Apricot Jelly, (1) Black Cherry Jelly, & (2) Zephyrus. So, that's another seven plants that will need to be cloned & sexed, but they won't be ready to clone for another week or two.
Any that turn out to be females can still be crossed with whatever male is being run for that cycle, but I do want to make sure I limit it to one male per run.
The good news is that, with the current run of Platinum Kush Breath, and the sponsored grow starting right behind it, it will probably be 12 weeks, or more, until I can risk having pollen flying around, so that should be plenty of time to get everything cloned and sexed, and get a new set of clones (if needed) ready for the first breeding run.
I'm still unsure if I'm going to flower out all the female clones first or just pollinate everything and flower them out later to see what I've got?
Happy Harvests!
K
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