Pollen Chucking (P2)

Week 3 of the stretch is now in the books and like a fortune telling doomsday proponent, my predictions from last week have unfortunately come true. The scrog of all mothers has witnessed bud stacking across all plants and each have started building on their respective cotton balls. All of Em look great and the tops sit about 6” above the net. This leaves us another 6” to our max headroom and light distance for the grow. That should be perfect to allow for some additional stretch as we move in to full bloom. The canopy evened out better than expected and haven’t even had to supercrop anything yet. Aside from the Skywalker, pretty much all of Em have been lollipopped right up to the underside of the net and there’s tons of light penetration after the wife ran a huge defo👍. Only one problem - as expected, found some god damned aphids have made a home the blueberry. Not to worry here though - talked to the local grow shop and they apparently have a fool proof murder method for these fuckers and we’re picking some up today before it gets outta control. What’s also of interest is that these grow tents (especially with saturated pots) don’t breathe like my cabinets do at all. Humidity and heat levels are uncommonly high and you almost need a powered air intake even running the exhaust on full (which was never ever necessary before). The new type of environment may actually suggest a need for co2 supplementation in the future but we’ll see how this flower cycle goes and take it from there👍. Which brings us to the clones… man, I hate being right. No wonder only half of em rooted. These little aphid eggs and nymphs have been sucking the life out of em for some time now. Thought we got most of Em only to find an entire fucking colony under a fan leaf that I must’ve missed some how. Either way - had to scrap the whole run. Only option now is to run a new batch of clones on a reveg. Not ideal and will take more time but I’m not about to scrap the whole line of genetics on one harvest if I can avoid it. The 2 outdoors which brought in the aphids are monsters. They’re both suffering from the advancing aphids and the strawberry is beginning to enter flower. Just glad we seem to have an option to rectify that problem. I’ll upload some pics and a review of this aphid killer once it’s in motion. If it works it’ll be a game changer for us as aphids have proven a common issue during the summer. The males - fuck this bullshit. The strawberry is dropping pods like mad but, without any pollen. He/she is throw’n blanks which is a damn shame. Unlikely we’ll derive any pollen from these ones. Not the end of the world and the mom has some serious fasciation anyway which I’m not at all happy with. The Skywalkers - still waiting on what they might produce. Regardless we do have backup pollen from another Skywalker if needed. It’ll yield reg. Seeds but that’s better than nothing at this point. I’m itch’s to run out the clones in the now complete 10 plant dutchy system and it would be disappointing after all the labour inputs if we couldn’t. So another grow of bumbling setbacks beyond my control. Let’s just hope we can finish this one strong and reach the end goal of some new seeds (with a healthy harvest to boot). Until next week - thanks for take’n a peek👍👊. 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. I call it the shotgun approach to selective, unvetted and amateur breeding on a micro scale😉. These 2 parent strains will form the basis for 8-10 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 ***UPDATE*** We added another 2 strains to the mix just in case we need to spot swap for some more variety. - Ghost Train by AMS Seeds A cross of Alien OG x Ghost Train Haze. Never tried the strain but I’ve heard only good things. This one might be worth mixing with the Strawberry so we’ll see how it goes. ***UPDATE*** Sadly - the ghost train turned out to be an auto so cloning her out as part of the breeding project is a no-go. Really disappointed about this but at least we still have a ready backup strain on the lost coast og to take her place. - Boogie Nights by AMS Seeds A cross of Kalijah, aka afghani/skunk/diesel/blue heaven X Juanita, aka NYC Diesel/Reina Madre). No idea here so naturally I’m interested😉. ************** - 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. 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👊