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Welcome all to the first ever seed sprouted from my stabilized F2 breeding of my custom strain Ahsoka Tano. I took the best male and female from the first F1 breeding to stabilize what will officially be my strain. This breeding should be 75% the tall branching phenotype that likes to be topped and 25% the short bushy phenotype. I started these girls by germinating 8 seeds and I managed to get 7 to pop (Though I have dozens more). I'd say thats pretty good since I've had less success from professional seed companies. They are all beautiful except for number 7 thats in the bottom middle row of seedlings. She had some issues shedding her seed casing but other than that things are looking fantastic. I'll be doing something very similar as last time with these girls. I'll grow them for about 4 - 6 weeks and then I'll switch them to 12 / 12 for a few days to gender test them. Once that happens I'll again pick the best male and the best female from the mix to turn the female into a mother for clones and then I'll breed the male with the mother once I'm done cutting clones to get together the perfect F3 breeding to make this an officially stabilized strain with a consistent phenotype.
Welcome to week two folks :D
These lovely girls are shooting up nicely. Judging from the structure of the way the seedlings are growing I believe that the stabilization of my F2 breeding is successful. 5 of these plants are very clearly the identical twins of their mother and father while the other two consist of one stunted baby that could be anything and one of the clearly slower growing and more bushy phenotype. Granted it is still too early to tell if my assumption is correct but it looks this way so far. In the coming weeks their growth structure will very clearly define their phenotype. I'm very excited to see them grow even more in the coming weeks. They are loving their current nutrient regiment and once their stalk begins to thicken up at about week 4 I'll begin upping their nutrient regiment. Until then enjoy some fun pictures. Cheers!
Well it looks like these fantastic babes are coming along magically. I'm very excited that 5 of 7 have the exact consistency of their parents that I was attempting to breed into this filial generation. Looks like I've achieved the 60%+ stabilization that I was hoping for my F2. Time will tell of course but it appears that I was successful. Now to gender test and train them so that I can breed my F3. Until then its just gonna be some pictures of standard vegetation and some topping. Cheers!
These girls have been topped and lightly defoliated. It's time to begin training them so we can see their traits begin to show. This way we can match up the proper male to the proper female to breed and stabilize the F3 of this strain. Should be fun to see how they react and grow in the coming weeks. Until then it's just a waiting game. Cheers everyone :D
Welp.... I'm an idiot. These girls survived the heat wave that struck all my tents last week..... They survived 97 Fahrenheit only to have my stupid self overwater them..... 5 of them look completely fine but 2 of these girls are not doing so hot. It's always nice though to have a little bit of stress in the garden even if it isn't planned. It showed me which 5 I'll most likely be choosing my breeding stock from. Now I know for sure that the 5 that are semi okay are clearly the 5 identical-ish Ahsoka Tano phenotypes that I'm looking for. They'll hopefully be recovered by the end of the next week.
I feel like such a fool for overwatering them..... it happens. I'll blame it one the perpetual drinking of liquor that takes place over the holidays. Heres to hopefully a better week 6. HAHA
These babies are just hating life. I suck sometimes... I swear.
So I had the issue with overwatering which caused a buildup of salt. Once the soil dried out I decided it prudent the flush the plants due to my previous error of hitting them with too much nutrient water. The flushing was successful but there was still a phosphorus and manganese deficiency that was caused by the salt lockout buildup. I've since fed them and the issue appears to have corrected itself with the foliage greening back up. I decided to defoliate the damaged foliage to help the plant trigger some new growth and get back up on their feet. This has severely stunted everything I was planning on doing with these girls in the coming weeks so It's a bit of a set back. I've moved these girls into my new LED Veg space which is two 136 watt viparspectra at 18 inches that has created a very healthy almost 50 DLI for the girls. I've adjusted the humidity in this grow space to be an almost decent VPD but it's still a bit low. This should help the plants recover a bit hopefully. Wish them luck. They need it.
There are still 12 seeds left of this so if anything goes too wrong here I can start over. I hope my ignorance and neglect didn't affect things and cause irreparable damage to the grow. I'm hopeful they will be bouncing back.
Hit the girls with full strength nutrients this week and they just bounced right back into their swing of things. I actually removed the plants from their pots and then added more soil to the bottom of their containers and then transplanted them back into the same pot with more soil as to give their roots a little tiny bit more area to grow. I have no intention of planting these girls in bigger pots because I just don't have the space to do it. I have chosen to cut 2 clones from every single on of these girls and get them started in an aeroponics cloner. I have numbered each clone with a corresponding mother so that I know what is what in my cloner. I will now be switching the light cycle over to 12/12 to sex test all these plants. Once the mothers and supposed fathers all show their sex I will then kill them all off and then start documenting the clones of the chosen male an female from this diary to continue my breeding. I hope you all enjoy some shenanigans from me. Best wishes everyone :D
Man this is awesome! Excited to follow your journey. How do you separate all of them so you control the pollen and breeding? Do you have multiple grow rooms/tents?
@put_around, I close it off when I'm breeding. It is a very scary thought that pollen might escape. I try to segregate the male and collect the pollen in another room. When I pollenate by hand I do make sure to be careful and apply the pollen directly to the flowering nodes in a small quantity as needed and then shut all the vents in that tent for about a week. Pollen can be viable for a few weeks but typically if you only apply it in a reasonable amount to directly where you'd like to be pollenated you don't have to worry too much about it spreading except to directly next to where you just pollenated. It's all about being careful.
@DabCrab, that’s cool. So do you have an exhaust fan on the tent that has males? I’ve been curious on breeding a golden goat with a blue dream but I’m nervous about pollen escaping the tent and contaminating my other tent ⛺ 😬
@Gr33nGiant, It's pretty simple and easy buddy. Just chuck pollen into a safe enclosed space. That and pray for a good breeding. Sometimes breeding produce junk. I've made a few strains that are just absolute trash and belong in the garbage. Happens sometimes.
@biggreens420, I was just so busy for two weeks. lol. All my grows suffered quite a bit. It happens. I do secretly love treating plants like 💩 though. Please don't tell anyone.
@Endriu, They are derived from a White Widow X Skywalker Kush. Then I took the best male from that and bred it with a female Trainwreck to make my F1 Ahsoka Tano. I then took the ((White Widow X Skywalker Kush) X Trainwreck) Ahsoka Tano babies and bred the best tall branchy phenotype male with his female counterpart to make this F2 Ahsoka tano.
DabCrab
