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ThaCarter
ThaCarterstarted grow question a month ago
I will be making Mephisto SourStomper the trans and pollinating FastBuds and Mephistos. To solidify Cross I need to cross 2 of the same seeds harvested, and then cross 2new seeds harvested for gen 2 or cross one of the seeds harvested from gen 1 with gen 2?
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question a month ago
I don't understand the amount of plants your crossing. If its just two or three based on the way it was written. If your just crossing two plants. its easy. Reverse one of them and pollinate the other. Done, It will make a lot of seeds and should take the best traits from both of them. Given that fastbuds does not release males and nor does mephisto from my understanding you will be crossing two females one of whom will be reversed.. Once this cross is done the linage should stop there. Its not ideal to keep reversing females and breeding them it will dilute the genetics and give more and more issues down the line. When breeders make Fem seed they sometimes backcross the plant with its self or another fem one, that is already one femXfem cross, your seeds would be two femXfem crosses. and if you used them again to breed. it would be 3 and 4 and 5 and so on for however many time you do this. If you really want to get into breeding you need to use males and females and pheno hunt. It requires a lot of time and room then once you find traits you've locked into the mix to make em fem you cross em back. Fem seed is not great to breed with, but if you only doing it once and making a bunch of seeds for shits and giggles its fine. I have reversed autos before. I suggest you start spraying the plant you want revered when they enter flower or just before it we call this plant R1 =reversed 1. It will also be a good idea to keep the plants separated and on a different grow schedule. Eg. the female who will make the seeds, we will call this plant M1=mother 1, should be about 2-3 weeks older so when it is pollinated its at its prime in flower production meaning lots of seeds and R1 is producing a shit ton of pollen when its younger. I would also suggest letting the M1 plant ripen till it dies so the seeds get all the nutrients and are healthy. Normally seed take about 4 weeks to mature I left mine on till 6 weeks and had near perfect germination rates on them. Their will be some back cross from the R1 plant onto its self, these seeds are also viable but they are not the cross you intended they are a back cross. Eg R1xR1 not R1xM1 You can grow them out as is or toss em out. Its also good to use STS for reversing, it works better then CS and requires less applications. but use w/e you have at your disposable. It would also be a good plan to grow out a few plants of each the R1's and M1's then picking the one with the most vigour and growth traits you like. Then cull the rest or flower them somewhere else where the pollen will not be. It will also help keep this on schedule should one of the seed shit the bed or go into early flower. Good Luck!