Pollen Chucking (P2)

Week 6 on the veg. And the girls are back on track and push’n out well. The Skywalker has really taken off while the Strawberry has now started to lag somewhat. They both got a pruning and some LST. Again, just to encourage more branching. Still seeing good growth and still on pace for some cuttings in the next week or two. On the other hand, the seedlings for the crosses did the exact same thing as the mothers did in this base soil mix. Each solo cup lost nute value after about 2 weeks and deficiencies immediately started to show. We had to delay the transplant as a result and give em a shot of base nutes to bring back their vigour. The Lost Coast and Blueberry were a little touch and go but responded. They were predictably pretty rootbound in the solo cups when we got around to up potting into 1gals. The NL and White Widow have been running pretty strong generally minus a little bit of calmag def. we moved Em all to coco in the bigger 1gal. pots. It’s just easier to manage the nute uptake and medium aeration. I said previously I’d probably never grow indoors in soil again and I never seem to listen to myself🙄. I simply CHOOSE to make things harder than they need to be sometimes😒 - lol. I love this solo cup transplant method BTW. It’s pure genius. @BudXs has a good video explanation of it if interested. Additional shoutouts to the originator @420grows on IG! For those of us who run a lot of litttles until there’s need to up-pot, this just makes it so easy🤙😎🤙. We’re well on the way - may even add a couple more cultivars along the way if the moods right😉. Until next week - boredom reigns y’all👍. Background/Repetitive Nonsense These plants will be the two mothers this growing season that will be utilized for stage 2 of the pollen chucking project. We’ll be taking clones and stressing the genetics for some fem. pollen using colloidal silver. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with landrace genetics, we’re effectively skipping initial hybrid crossing and stabilization, going straight to the polyhybrid mix. These 2 parent strains will form the basis for 8 different F1 polyhybrid combinations and a further S1 back cross of each of the mothers. Not only should we be able to preserve the genetics for both mothers in feminized form but we’ll also be running an entire family of new hybrids after seeding out clones from each on the initial lineup of this summers photoperiods. Method is pretty simple here; once we’ve got our pollen off the two mothers we’ll be clipp’n clones on 4 select strains that have proven results from various respected breeders. We’ll be using those for pollination purposes in what is expected to be a 10 plant recirculating Dutch bucket hydro system. Strain details: Parent strains for self pollination - Skywalker Kush by Reserva Privada Classic kush effects and earthy aroma. The strong kush element of this cultivar will compliment any cross. - Spliffs Strawberry by Spliff Seeds Incredible mix of flavourful terpenes and hard hitting high THC. She’s got some Herer as well as some Diesel in ‘er so an obvious choice for any cross as well. Parent Strains for cross pollination - Lost Coast OG by Emerald Triangle Pakistani Kush x Lemon Thai x Chemdawg #4. Essentially a classic, west coast combo of landrace kush genetics that Cali is famous for, mixed with hard hitting Chemdawg #4. - Spliffs Blueberry by Spliff Seeds (Chocolate Thai x Afghani #1 x Highland Oaxaca) x Northern Lighhts Special. Only 1 bean of this left and the whole purpose is to blend the best of Spliffs Berry strains as a tribute. Awesome breeder and they’ve been very kind to us over the years. - Northern Light by Royal Queen Seeds NL means nuff said. A combo of 11 unknown strains believed to originate from the west coast of North America. This cultivar is a great take on these classic genetics and a perfect compliment to just about any cross. A biased fave of ours.👍 - White Widow by Seedsman Brazilian Sativa x South Indian Indica. This classic strain has been unluckily elusive for us the last couple years. We know the quality of seedsmans version of this cultivar having grown it in the past. Sadly, a very strong performer that never made it to harvest due to an uncontrollable aphid infestation. We’re holding out for some good luck on this run🤞. There really are no other plans for potential substitutes if any of ‘Em fail to germinate. We’ll always come up with alternatives but the selection process has taken some time and thought already. And we’re only at step 1.... still gonna need an assist with pheno hunting all of the crosses so if anyone’s interested in running the testers (when we finally get to that point) just let me know👍😎. Gonna be a Dope ass summer project and can’t wait to see it in full swing🤟. Thanks for stopp’n in y’all🤟