3M 🤪 Crossbreeding

deFharo Welcome, marijuana growers! 🖐️ 👨‍🌾 •• The Beginning of a Story to Tell We are at the start of a new growing season, and this time the garden brings with it a little genetic mystery. The seeds in this multiple diary are regular seeds… unless nature has a surprise in store. They were born from spontaneous crosses that occurred in my own garden during my penultimate growing season when I decided to rescue some old seeds from a Brazilian sativa. In that season, I bred a male and a female with the clear intention of preserving that genetics. The plan was simple: to perform a controlled cross between the two to ensure their lineage. And that’s what I did. But after the harvest came the surprise. The seeds started appearing everywhere. I definitely got a bit too confident with the handling of the pollen. It was my first experience working with males at home, and I learned something fundamental: pollen is like air. Invisible, light, rebellious… and perfectly capable of sneaking through any crack in the grow tent. Most of the seeds I found in lower and mid buds. But I also don’t rule out another possibility: that some plant developed hermaphrodite flowers and participated in the pollination. If that were the case, many of these seeds could be feminized. The truth is, I don’t know… and that’s precisely where part of the fun lies. •• Accelerated Sex Declaration To find out, I’m going to subject this group of seedlings to an **accelerated sex declaration**. I already tried this technique last season with the Congo plant, and it worked very well. The plan is as follows: when these plants reach four weeks from seed, I will transplant them into intermediate pots of approximately 1.5 liters. A week later, I will drastically change the light schedule. Until now, they have been growing with 20–22 hours of light, but then I will reduce it to just 9 hours a day. In the previous test, I lowered the light to 10 hours, and the plants took nine days to declare their sex. This time I want to speed up the process a bit. When the males reveal themselves… they will be executed immediately. The females, on the other hand, will be promoted: they will move to their final pots and return to the vegetative growth schedule of 20/4 hours. Natural selection applied to home cultivation. •• Self-Sufficiency and Curiosity My interest in these home crosses is mainly experimental, but it is also part of something that deeply motivates me: my quest for plant self-sufficiency. I usually don’t grow regular seeds. They require more attention, more space, and more work than feminized ones. But this season I’ve decided to give it a try… let’s see what comes out. I have no doubts about the quality of the herb. The mother plants that produced these seeds were exceptional. I could barely enjoy the Brazilian sativa because it was completely loaded with seeds, but I have always felt a special fascination for pure sativas. And if they come from Brazil, even more so. Brazil is a country with which I have a very close relationship: I lived there for several years, and now growing plants that carry some of that genetics has a special value for me. Wild, tropical, unpredictable. Additionally, this season I am also growing the original Brazilian sativa, which will allow me to observe if any of these new crosses reveal their heritage in the shape of the leaves, growth, or aromas. And I must admit something important: I smoke it all. Nothing goes to waste. 😁 •• A Wonderful Problem If these seeds are truly regular, about half will be males. That would simplify things quite a bit. But if not… I’m going to have a serious space problem. In addition to these seedlings, I am also growing several feminized strains. My initial plan was to keep eight plants in 7-liter pots inside a single grow tent, but I’m starting to suspect that I might have to activate my homemade grow cabinet to accommodate a couple more. I might even grow an extra one in 5-liter pots. Or maybe look for a small guerrilla spot for the excess plants. 🤷‍♂️ Anyway… the game is completely open. Many decisions to make. Many actions ahead. Over time, each plant that survives this first selection will have its own individual diary, where I will document in detail the development of each phenotype. •• The Present For now, these little seedlings are living peacefully under blue lights (450 nm) and cool white lights (6500 K), spectrums that mimic quite well the time of year we are going through: the end of winter and the beginning of spring. As spring progresses, I will intensify the light and add more richness in the color spectrums to accompany their growth. But that will come later. For the moment, everything is just starting. Everything is promise. Everything is possibility. And I am here to accompany it... All for the cause. 🌱 😁 UNTIL NEXT TIME. HEALTH AND GREETINGS TO ALL! ================================= GENETICS: - Oreoz x Sativa Brazil: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/257667-msnl-oreoz-grow-journal-by-defharo - Runtz x Sativa Brazil: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/247559-zamnesia-seeds-runtz-grow-journal-by-defharo - Tangie x Sativa Brazil: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/257663-royal-queen-seeds-tangie-grow-journal-by-defharo - Royal Max x Sativa Brazil: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/258231-royal-purple-x-mad-max-33-royal-max-34-grow-journal-by-defharo - Sativa Brazil x2: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/257677-george-brazil-sativa-grow-journal-by-defharo =================================