Encouraging plants to get freaky 💋💦🌱

Kali_flauer Hello, and welcome to my first attempt at breeding cannabis! My goals here are simple: -Make mistakes and get the ugly shit out of the way. -Learn. -Hopefully get a single decent cross out of this experiment. And that's really it! Part of the reason also has to do with the laws changing here in the good ol' U S of A. Come November, it will be illegal for us to ship and receive seeds across state lines and that includes national imports as well. I have a good size stockpile, but I figure that making my own could be even better and might be fun! So here we are. The cross is between a Maine based farm who supplied the regular seeds that I will be collecting pollen from. The female plants are mostly Fastbuds strains with a few others tossed into the mix. Most of these are crosses I am looking forward to, but if I'm being completely honest, some are getting used for this experiment purely because I don't value the seeds much and don't have other concrete plans for them. I started the regular seeds about 2 weeks ahead of the feminized ones so that way the males have mature pollen sacs to be harvested before the girls are ready to receive pollen. The timeline of events so far looks like this: RP#1 Germinated on 06/11/26. RP#2-5 Germinated on 06/12/26 RP#6 and #7 did not germinate by themselves via the wet paper towel method. I cracked the seeds carefully with pliers, and #6 finally woke up on 06/15/26. #7 never successfully germinated ? The ladies in this session had much more consistent germination, but I may have fucked up already 😬. Gorilla Z, Strawberry Gorilla, Pound Cake, and Banana Daddy all germinated on 06/25/26, then Gelato and Turtle Taffy soon followed suit on 06/26/26. The problem: somehow, overnight my germination towels dried out, leaving Banana Daddy and Gelato with no moisture for some period of time. I'm not sure how this happened, because the exact same setup kept Turtle Taffy completely damp the whole day of work (~10 hours, compared to overnight which was only 7 hours). But who knows, my concerns could be for nothing, the babies might just pull through 💪. Stick around to find out, and see the results of this fun little project!