Pollen Chucking (P1)

Week 5 update - big changes this week. We started off with the culling. Every single one was a male except the runty og in the solo cup (figures). No matter - we got our 2 winner males in the 707 and Skywalker so alls good👍. The sherbet and the FFT5 have really come on in the last week and we had to segregate em into the small cab with the auto. Not ideal and cramped confines. If they were about to flower in the big cab then they appear to have ran back to veg. At least for the FFT5, the Sherbet has me wondering still🤔. The runty female stays with the males and she can act as the sacrificial lamb for some early seed. I’ve been painting on some of the OG pollen as we trim away the mature branches. The Skywalker has gone off first and we’ve been trimm’n er down piece by piece, shake’n out each branch thats showing a lot of maturity and pollen drop. Wish I could say I’ve discovered a secret method to this process because it’s a tedious pain in the ass. You essentially just shake out the burst pollen sacks onto the foil to collect it for later use. I’m pretty gentle and very deliberate about this process and try to keep as much of what I’m doing in the cabinet as possible. The reason is 2-fold: I’m trying to collect as much as I can while at the same time trying not to float pollen all over the basement. The goal is to be as clean as possible too so everything gets a wipe down and the flowering cabinet doesn’t get touched for at least 12 hours. Anyway, once we’ve got our pollen you wanna pick out the seed pods and any leaf matter as much as possible, then take ur foil and put a crease in it. Then get the smallest fucking baggy you managed to find and get all that powdery gizz in there. If you did what I did... good luck with that. I store the baggy along with a piece cardboard in a Tupperware container in the freezer. Good to go for the spring/summer👍. Stay tuned - 707s coming up quick. Background This has been coming for awhile and I even killed half an auto cycle just to finally get to it. A 5 strain, 14 plant micro run. All done in 1 gallon smart pots. I’ve got a sprinkle of fast flower fems (shout out to BudXs for that FB Tester👊) and some of a prized outdoor grow from 2019 that happened to catch a little pregos and yielded a small amount of seed. No idea what the quality is like and only way they’ll be usable at all is if I can run Em back against the parent. The primary goal is to test the waters on some primo 707 and Skywalker cultivars in the hopes that we can pull out a couple of males for pollen collection. From there and on the next cycle through, we’re gonna run a bunch more of each in an effort to backcross and stabilize out some viable seed with a select few females. The end game is to use the pollen from that generation to hopefully blend some wacky hybrid from within BW’s existing seed collection🤷. This process can take awhile so it’ll be a long time come’n. In the end, I’ve got my heart set on some perfect combinations that’ll be straight fuck’n 💣. It’s gonna be worth the patience👍😎👍. Never thought I’d say this but.... Let’s pray for some balls mofo!!!🤞 Skywalker Kush An indica hybrid mix of Skywalker and that classic OG we all know and love👌. It hits heavy and hard both in the body and on the mind - a great benchmark strain for any future crosses that could do with an infusion of a straight up, stoner indica buzz. 707 Headband This is a sativa leaning hybrid mix of True OG and Headband. Quite frankly, the most purely cerebral effects that this stoner has ever had the chance to sample🤟. Between these two cultivars as potential cross options for other ladies in the future; we’ve got a great start to our quest for the elusive omega strain😉. Hell, we might even cross em with each other too, just to see what happens😎.