higher self
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For sure & its actually a few days in flower. I'll get some pics up for my grow journal after the stretch
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higher self
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Punto Rojo x Durban Punch
Fairly uniform plants save for the one with the weird early leaf growth. The one on left smells like a woody African strain, from the Ceskei. Middle plant not getting much from & the right smells a bit like the Rojo. It smells just as good as a sherbert cross I have going.
Also found out this bagseed plant of Berry Blossom cbd was a male. Lil disappointed bc I liked the buds but I might use the male on Cherry Wine F2, flowering it out now.
Fairly uniform plants save for the one with the weird early leaf growth. The one on left smells like a woody African strain, from the Ceskei. Middle plant not getting much from & the right smells a bit like the Rojo. It smells just as good as a sherbert cross I have going.
Also found out this bagseed plant of Berry Blossom cbd was a male. Lil disappointed bc I liked the buds but I might use the male on Cherry Wine F2, flowering it out now.
C-theGrower
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she almost ready.
I gave up trying to pop any of my oldest seeds, they just will not pop and probably had recessive traits for inter-sex anyway, too old and not stored well. BUT I did find some of the earliest seeds from my second attempt to create a hybrid that were still viable. They were hidden in my wife's old jewelry box, so they never got stuck in our storage shed, which is what probably killed my oldest ones. These are ones I labeled P-Funk 95. What are they? I'm not exactly sure, LOL. I know the male came from Garberville in 1990, I found that seed in a $350 oz of sweet skunk bud, cone shaped light green, dense and stony. A friend of mine bought the bag from a local after I lost a QP to the Garberville cops and was charged with "over an ounce", $1,000 misdemeanor at the time. (We were looking for shrooms on the peninsula over the bridge)
I only got the one seed to pop and it was male so I saved a ton of pollen from it and made some different crosses. The P-funk was from when I crossed it with the first "OG" strain that I came across. It was just called OG 92 I picked it up as a clone (traded a purple indica from Santa cruz for it actually) and it had a great buzz but was finicky to grow, not a great producer. I worked those two strains together attempting to create a larger prodicing stable hybrid cross. By around 1998 though, it was not as whoop ass as it had been and I moved on to newer strains. These seeds were from the best run of these that I had, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
If memory serves, these should come out looking rather old school and fairly uniform, not the most dense buds in the world, but still somewhat chunky with TONS of crystals everywhere, including on the stems and even fan leaves. Taste should be on the sweet side, very perfume smelling but with a funk aftertaste. I'm probably not even going to hit these with any pollen, I've got a bunch more seeds left to pop and the germ rates were ok, about a third of them popped, so I'm just going to do a test run to make sure my memory of them stands up to the test of time. If they are as good as I remember, I'll pop some more seeds and go on a pheno hunt and then cross them with something new, maybe a chocolate diesel or something similar to bring out more of the funk.
12 x10 gallon bags, pro-mix HP with extra perlite, just flipped them two days ago, now I'll see if they stretch too much, I don't remember them being super stretchy, someplace in the middle. I'd rather grow them up too big and have to fight to train them, than not veg them long enough. currently under a dusty trusty 1000hps I'll soon split that into two 600w HPS and then add a third about midway through.
Just something fun to do while I help a bunch of locals grow my outdoor seeds, I'm not even going to do a grow of my own outdoors this year, too much work honestly. And mostly I popped these because people around here keep asking for Old School strains, not just once in a while either, but constantly. I guess some of us old timers are getting a bit tired of all the new fruity hype strains because I can't believe how often I'm asked if I won't go back to growing some older strains. IDK to be honest, I think some of it is just bad memory, but who knows, maybe there is something to be said about older genetics being worth going back to now and then. We shall see.
I only got the one seed to pop and it was male so I saved a ton of pollen from it and made some different crosses. The P-funk was from when I crossed it with the first "OG" strain that I came across. It was just called OG 92 I picked it up as a clone (traded a purple indica from Santa cruz for it actually) and it had a great buzz but was finicky to grow, not a great producer. I worked those two strains together attempting to create a larger prodicing stable hybrid cross. By around 1998 though, it was not as whoop ass as it had been and I moved on to newer strains. These seeds were from the best run of these that I had, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
If memory serves, these should come out looking rather old school and fairly uniform, not the most dense buds in the world, but still somewhat chunky with TONS of crystals everywhere, including on the stems and even fan leaves. Taste should be on the sweet side, very perfume smelling but with a funk aftertaste. I'm probably not even going to hit these with any pollen, I've got a bunch more seeds left to pop and the germ rates were ok, about a third of them popped, so I'm just going to do a test run to make sure my memory of them stands up to the test of time. If they are as good as I remember, I'll pop some more seeds and go on a pheno hunt and then cross them with something new, maybe a chocolate diesel or something similar to bring out more of the funk.
12 x10 gallon bags, pro-mix HP with extra perlite, just flipped them two days ago, now I'll see if they stretch too much, I don't remember them being super stretchy, someplace in the middle. I'd rather grow them up too big and have to fight to train them, than not veg them long enough. currently under a dusty trusty 1000hps I'll soon split that into two 600w HPS and then add a third about midway through.
Just something fun to do while I help a bunch of locals grow my outdoor seeds, I'm not even going to do a grow of my own outdoors this year, too much work honestly. And mostly I popped these because people around here keep asking for Old School strains, not just once in a while either, but constantly. I guess some of us old timers are getting a bit tired of all the new fruity hype strains because I can't believe how often I'm asked if I won't go back to growing some older strains. IDK to be honest, I think some of it is just bad memory, but who knows, maybe there is something to be said about older genetics being worth going back to now and then. We shall see.
Beautiful flower, and sounds like a great terpene profile! Like a cherry truffles praline.
Everyones creations look amazing! Here's one that got away but will hopefully find her again in my second pheno hunt. I tried a lot of the "elites" out there and she was just as good if not better so keep chucking people! Click the image to zoom in for some of that trichome goodness.
Artificial Tears (Lambsbread x GAS MAC)
Artificial Tears (Lambsbread x GAS MAC)
SCJedi
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Don't give up on old seeds just because they won't pop through your traditional methods. If you have any mycology sterile tek skills you can kick start them with surface sterilization, extract the embryo, and put it into sterile culture. It's a lot easier than you think.
If you smash one is there still white germ inside?
Looking like you're off to a good start!
AlSeedsman
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Orange shade 5th test plant harvested after about 8 weeks of flower, and about 24 days of veg. Smells like orange starburst or orange salt water taffy, cure isnt done so not sure if the smell carries over to taste. Tested it still, buzz was uplifting but not particularly long lasting. I'm sticking with this line so far on the strength of the ones that taste like grapefruit and food(hashbrown) grease which has been half of the 4 females so far
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SCJedi
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Sterile technique itself is part or how people cultivate mushrooms. Since it's a technique (creating a completely sterile workspace) it can be done as simply and inexpensively as sitting a plastic tote on its side and working inside it, and as complex and expensive as having a full scale clean room with air scrubbers and a HEPA flow hood.
My suggestion might be to search for a few YouTube videos and what some of what the myco people do. There are also myco forums where people create what is referred to as a glove box or a s.a.b., or still air box.
The general idea is to surface sterilize your plant part (explant) or seed and once it is sterile work with it inside of that sterile workspace described above. The purpose of sterility is to remove contamination from opportunitistic fungi and bacteria. (Unless that is your goal)
The media protocol, or "recipe" basically varies from strain to strain but most general ones include:
Distilled water
Agar (gelling agent)
Sucrose (carbon source)
MS media (micro/macro plant nutrients)
And some kind of hormone depending on what you want to tell the explanat to do, shoot or root.
Here is my lemon custard cut in a sterile culture test tube.
There is still white germ inside. That's one tech that I haven't heard of yet, I'll look it up and see if I can find it. Thanks.
