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hush's Peak Seeds grow out - 1000w - 4x4
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I don't know? It probably means that strain is fairly stable or uniform? I'm just guessing.
I'm brand new to keeping males around, and seed making altogether, so I'm not the best person to ask dude. I'm pretty sure that different males would offer different combinations of genes, so I plan on collecting pollen from several males of each strain, if possible. I think it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. I'm trying to preserve the lines for myself, that's all. If you're creating hybrids you might have different goals.
just wanted to play around I do have a bagseed I started last year that will be the first step for a breeding project in the future though , nice to see someone trying to keep the building blocks of our present hybrids live ... who knows maybe this time next year ill be posting pics of hushs blueberry 
Haha! I doubt it bro. 
I can't see myself ever making seeds to sell. I suppose I can't rule out the possibility of, in the further future, donating some for a server fund or something like that... But that would only ever happen after I know what I'm doing, and I don't see that happening soon, lol.
My goals are simple. I just want to make hundreds of seeds of various pure varieties. I am currently working on Skunk and Blueberry. Next time will probably be Northern Lights and hopefully some kind of pure afghani. Other pure lines I have plans on obtaining are Bubblegum, Durban, and a few landraces. But what I really want to store away are tons of seeds of pure varieties of any kind, so that breeding with them for my own purposes will be a bit easier, instead of dealing with polyhybrids for seed-making. Throughout all of this, I do plan on making some F1 hybrids and learning a bunch about that as well. But preservation is really my only motivation to make seeds.
I can't see myself ever making seeds to sell. I suppose I can't rule out the possibility of, in the further future, donating some for a server fund or something like that... But that would only ever happen after I know what I'm doing, and I don't see that happening soon, lol.My goals are simple. I just want to make hundreds of seeds of various pure varieties. I am currently working on Skunk and Blueberry. Next time will probably be Northern Lights and hopefully some kind of pure afghani. Other pure lines I have plans on obtaining are Bubblegum, Durban, and a few landraces. But what I really want to store away are tons of seeds of pure varieties of any kind, so that breeding with them for my own purposes will be a bit easier, instead of dealing with polyhybrids for seed-making. Throughout all of this, I do plan on making some F1 hybrids and learning a bunch about that as well. But preservation is really my only motivation to make seeds.
Day 15 of flowering:
It's possible that all these plants are females at this point. There are a few Blueberries and a few Sweet Skunks that are not showing their sex yet. All the Northern Skunks left in here are females, though.
So I'm still watching every day for those last few to show pistils or balls. I can only assume that the ones that have not shown their sex yet are long-flowering phenos.
Also, I still don't know the sex of that light colored BB.
It's possible that all these plants are females at this point. There are a few Blueberries and a few Sweet Skunks that are not showing their sex yet. All the Northern Skunks left in here are females, though.
So I'm still watching every day for those last few to show pistils or balls. I can only assume that the ones that have not shown their sex yet are long-flowering phenos.
Also, I still don't know the sex of that light colored BB.
Yeah they're all females. Including that BB. I am finally seeing tiny pistils appearing on all of them. So the male to female ratios are as follows:
Blueberry- 2:9
Sweet Skunk- 4:8
Northern Skunk- 4:8
Now, pictures from today:
Some of the plants are shooting upward, towering over the rest:
Blueberry:
Our lovely "albino" gal:
As you can see, she has gotten a little green with the photosynthesizing, but she never goes past what I would call a yellow-green. And in the margins of the leaves, and around the veins, I can see a lot of purplish pigmentation just waiting to express itself. The petioles are also very purple-red. This is a beautiful plant!
The Blueberries have definitely demonstrated their dislike for high doses of nutes. I will begin feeding them separately, which I just did. I'm giving them half-strength for now.
Blueberry- 2:9
Sweet Skunk- 4:8
Northern Skunk- 4:8
Now, pictures from today:
Some of the plants are shooting upward, towering over the rest:
Blueberry:
Our lovely "albino" gal:
As you can see, she has gotten a little green with the photosynthesizing, but she never goes past what I would call a yellow-green. And in the margins of the leaves, and around the veins, I can see a lot of purplish pigmentation just waiting to express itself. The petioles are also very purple-red. This is a beautiful plant!
The Blueberries have definitely demonstrated their dislike for high doses of nutes. I will begin feeding them separately, which I just did. I'm giving them half-strength for now.
So, I need to talk about a few interesting developments that occurred over the weekend. It's interesting how sometimes things happen and you don't plan on it, and things just have a way of revealing that there was only ONE way this was going to go down, and you never had a choice in the matter, in the grand scheme of things. I actually enjoy when these moments happen. It helps me to remember my place in the Multiverse, and how we are all just a part of the grand orchestration which is space-time unfolding. (Yes, I've been smoking lots of SSH lately).
Well, something alone those lines happened this weekend.
It all started when I realized that the 2nd male Blueberry I removed from the garden was, in fact, NOT a male after all. It was the second BB that I thought was revealing male flowers, and I didn't want to keep the first one that revealed, for any of the strains, so I took the 1st BB male out of the cabinet when the 2nd one went in. But for some reason, I couldn't bring myself to destroy him. I was admiring how tall he was, and how symmetrical his structure is, and I ultimately ended up just leaving him in the room that the cabinet is in, but outside of the cabinet. Just, on the floor.
So when I noticed that the male BB in the cabinet was throwing pistils, and there were no pollen sacs anywhere on the entire plant, I was immediately struck with a sinking feeling... the realization that I fucked up and would not be able to collect any BB pollen. That I wouldn't be able to make any BB seeds after all. And that was when I noticed the *actual* male plant, sitting on the floor beside the cabinet. It was still flowering away, and still looking very handsome. Even though he had been sitting in a dark bedroom, he had just begun opening his flowers, and I saw pollen dusted onto some of his top-most fan leaves.
Here I was with a female that I falsely accused of being a male, and hence removed her original spot from the powerful, bright garden, with no chance of going back in there. Then on the other hand I also had this male that was in fact my ONLY source of Blueberry pollen, no ifs ands or buts. There was no ability to cull any males. I had no selection process. If I wanted to make BB seeds, I would have to use the pollen from this fella. So the decision was already made. I picked that plant up, held him horizontally over the female that I accidentally brought in, and dusted the girl up with his pollen. I mean, I shook it all over her, with the fans off, making sure that pollen got all up in the hairs that are now abundant, and readily visible. I then put the male back into the male cabinet, to take his place as the sole male Blueberry in my stock, and fed him a nice bit of bloom formula.
The pollinated Blueberry female is now next door, in the LED side of the cabient. Because she was forcibly removed from her original home, I felt it was important to treat this accident like it was going to change my life somehow. For all I know, this female right here might end up producing the most wonderful BB kids ever. I don't know. But now, I've got a separate BB seed-making offshoot project that will be separate from the rest of my breeding adventures. The moral of this story is, when all the signs line up and point out very obviously that there is only 1 thing to do... I do it, and expect great things!
So here is the revised list of the male to female ratios for each strain:
Blueberry- 1:10
Sweet Skunk- 4:8
Northern Skunk- 4:8
Can you believe there was only 1 male Blueberry?!
Now in the male cabinet I have 1 Blueberry, 1 Northern Skunk, and 2 Sweet Skunks. Interestingly enough, without any planning on my part whatsoever, each of the male Sweet Skunks is a different pheno. I have noticed 2 distinct phenotypes with the female Sweet Skunks, and by pure luck, I got one male of each pheno.
La vida es dulce.
Well, something alone those lines happened this weekend.
It all started when I realized that the 2nd male Blueberry I removed from the garden was, in fact, NOT a male after all. It was the second BB that I thought was revealing male flowers, and I didn't want to keep the first one that revealed, for any of the strains, so I took the 1st BB male out of the cabinet when the 2nd one went in. But for some reason, I couldn't bring myself to destroy him. I was admiring how tall he was, and how symmetrical his structure is, and I ultimately ended up just leaving him in the room that the cabinet is in, but outside of the cabinet. Just, on the floor.
So when I noticed that the male BB in the cabinet was throwing pistils, and there were no pollen sacs anywhere on the entire plant, I was immediately struck with a sinking feeling... the realization that I fucked up and would not be able to collect any BB pollen. That I wouldn't be able to make any BB seeds after all. And that was when I noticed the *actual* male plant, sitting on the floor beside the cabinet. It was still flowering away, and still looking very handsome. Even though he had been sitting in a dark bedroom, he had just begun opening his flowers, and I saw pollen dusted onto some of his top-most fan leaves.
Here I was with a female that I falsely accused of being a male, and hence removed her original spot from the powerful, bright garden, with no chance of going back in there. Then on the other hand I also had this male that was in fact my ONLY source of Blueberry pollen, no ifs ands or buts. There was no ability to cull any males. I had no selection process. If I wanted to make BB seeds, I would have to use the pollen from this fella. So the decision was already made. I picked that plant up, held him horizontally over the female that I accidentally brought in, and dusted the girl up with his pollen. I mean, I shook it all over her, with the fans off, making sure that pollen got all up in the hairs that are now abundant, and readily visible. I then put the male back into the male cabinet, to take his place as the sole male Blueberry in my stock, and fed him a nice bit of bloom formula.
The pollinated Blueberry female is now next door, in the LED side of the cabient. Because she was forcibly removed from her original home, I felt it was important to treat this accident like it was going to change my life somehow. For all I know, this female right here might end up producing the most wonderful BB kids ever. I don't know. But now, I've got a separate BB seed-making offshoot project that will be separate from the rest of my breeding adventures. The moral of this story is, when all the signs line up and point out very obviously that there is only 1 thing to do... I do it, and expect great things!
So here is the revised list of the male to female ratios for each strain:
Blueberry- 1:10
Sweet Skunk- 4:8
Northern Skunk- 4:8
Can you believe there was only 1 male Blueberry?!
Now in the male cabinet I have 1 Blueberry, 1 Northern Skunk, and 2 Sweet Skunks. Interestingly enough, without any planning on my part whatsoever, each of the male Sweet Skunks is a different pheno. I have noticed 2 distinct phenotypes with the female Sweet Skunks, and by pure luck, I got one male of each pheno.
La vida es dulce.
