Humboldt Seed Company (HSC) Thread

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rijkmus1

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Gorilla grow watered 2 times ammend soil. Basically no care. Pineapple Muffins feminized. Bad picture from 10 ft. Away. Looks ok for a low work gorilla try. Looks like a very small if any amount of catipiller damage on a few. This is the closest I can get for now. More to come.
 

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oswizzle

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Neoangelo147 said:
Well it looks like one of my Squirt phenos might be showing signs of hermie but can’t 100% tell. All I know is the last time I had a strain do this it turned out herm further into flower.
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Squirt was a bust for me as well bro....If you hit up HSC and tell them about their Chiquita Banana fems.... they'll send you a couple packs of your choice of anything they carry.... HSC genetics are Mid Level Grade overall IMHO... nobody in the SoCal Scene that moves weight would touch these genetics with a 50 foot pole ... especially in the Great Light Dep Flood we're going thru atm
 
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Neoangelo147

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oswizzle said:
Squirt was a bust for me as well bro....If you hit up HSC and tell them about their Chiquita Banana fems.... they'll send you a couple packs of your choice of anything they carry.... HSC genetics are Mid Level Grade overall IMHO... nobody in the SoCal Scene that moves weight would touch these genetics with a 50 foot pole ... especially in the Great Light Dep Flood we're going thru atm
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Yup, they are confirmed herms and I noticed it mostly on phenos that are looking to turn purple in flower. I have 5 phenos in total from the same pack and I have already identified and pulled 2 100% herm plants. The last 3 look good so far but it doesn't look like they are caring the trait for purple unless its going to show later in flower. I have 15 other strains ranging from clone-only and seeds and haven't had any other issues. I just went through my whole garden to rule the possibility of stress-causing it but everything is being treated the same in the garden as the Squirts. Couldn't find any signs of herms only on the Squirt phenos.
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I think its simular to line breeing in dogs and horses. They can breed for characteristics size color past performances. Look what has happened just in my life. The growth of the industry over the years and now all we have are mostly hybrids. Yes there are some landraces left. But I gave up on landrace tomatoes a few year's ago. The hybrid vigor is the most important factor against disease which is a battle every year. The best cuts now are almost always hybrid. But this is my opinion just from my experience. Others may disagree. I didn't think GMO meant selective breeding but I can see your point.
 
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Trimming some garlic budder this morning and holy crap this thing is gnarly garlicky funky stuff, the family member helping me trim has their eyes watering and it was making me nauseous so we took a break from trimming. We're even trimming outdoors! This is the "little" one cut from the larger one that was trellised horizontallyPXL_20210918_173749237.jpg
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GlassJoe said:
Trimming some garlic budder this morning and holy crap this thing is gnarly garlicky funky stuff, the family member helping me trim has their eyes watering and it was making me nauseous so we took a break from trimming. We're even trimming outdoors! This is the "little" one cut from the larger one that was trellised horizontallyView attachment 4990019
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Those buds look chunky!
My Garlic Budder have stretched like hell the last couple of days. They are just now in week 2 of flower for me. I have 3 different phenos one is flowering a little faster and is more squat than the other 2. I can see frost developing on 2 phenos already.
 
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Neoangelo147 said:
Those buds look chunky!
My Garlic Budder have stretched like hell the last couple of days. They are just now in week 2 of flower for me. I have 3 different phenos one is flowering a little faster and is more squat than the other 2. I can see frost developing on 2 phenos already.
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They're definitely chunky and as it flowered it has trended more and more towards the terpene profile of GMO. It's a little bit of a love-hate relationship, because the GB has been fantastic in terms of production and having long colas of tight, densely packed frosty buds, but it's positively gassing us out; I feel like I need a respirator to trim this thing. We're limited on drying space so we have one of those round collapsible drying racks (see below, but ours is a little larger) that we've used for the harvested colas for a few years and the thing collapsed yesterday when we were adding trimmed GB colas to it!

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We still have the big GB to take down, which will definitely require more hands on deck to deal with, and has fat colas hanging off to the side all over the place. Good problem to have!

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hillbill said:
Selective breeding will not insert genes of a different plant family or animal genes into Cannabis.
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There are different types of genetic engineering and what you are describing is transgenics. The definition of genetic engineering depends on who you ask, but can include conventional selective breeding. It is true that when most people think of GMOs and genetic engineering, they're talking about transgenic organisms.

They can occur naturally, though not frequently. The most common example is sweet potatoes, which have incorporated bacterial DNA from agrobacterium into their own genome for thousands of years.

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RACE 2 THE MOUNTAINTOP!!!!

Me and my buddy popped Mountaintop Mint seeds at the same time so we're gona have a friendly race to the finish.

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His as of 9/16

Mine as of the same date.
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Drop date 9/4. His looks way nicer because he's in Big Rootz soil, and mine is starving in coco, just started feeding very lightly just after the pic was taken.
 
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Finishing fast is nice, but finishing strong is king! Cannabis takes so much time and care to grow, harvest, trim, dry, and cure that it's a drop in the bucket to be a few days or a week behind here or there imo. Hopefully your sprouts rebound with some food, I'll be interested to see how it grows because I haven't grown anything minty myself so far.

I think mountaintop mint shows some variation because it's the clone-only Bling (the seeds for the Bling are S1s, but there's no reason for them not to work with the clone if they have it) crossed with MAC Mints for the F1, selected and backcrossed once, so I believe that should be (The Bling x MAC Mints) x MAC Mints = mountaintop mint Bx1. Or maybe (The Bling x MAC Mints) x The Bling? I'm not sure which one they backcrossed with, it would be whichever they're trying to isolate traits from
 
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Yeesh, I'm surprised they haven't pulled squirt at this point if it's having herm problems this consistently. It's a BBM x Tangie Bx3 so I can only assume they Tangie they backcrossed it with had issues. I've grown a decent amount of BBM and a few BBM crosses (some Hi-biscus and an apple blossom) without hitting a herm so far but I guess it's something to watch for
 
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