[WaterFarmFan]

Originally Posted by Vanilla Phoenix

She is a beauty!

Thanks! I think she has some most desirable traits for breeding. Some of the Zamaldelica crosses will be duds, but I am willing to bet a decent amount that a few will unleash the Kraken, with a perfect fusion of indica and sativa - well at least a boy can dream...

[WaterFarmFan]

On another very important note, I dusted my first group of ladies three days ago and the pollen seems to taken. I started my ladies in stages, and this group is well isolated from the others. I was stressed that I failed somewhere in the pollen collection process, but thanks to many fine ICMag folks, this projects seems like it is headed towards a smashing success. Much love to all!!!!!!

WFF

[covert]

Originally Posted by VerdantGreen

My advice is, if there is a variety of cannabis you love or think is important... then preserve it yourself. dont expect others to do it for you.

VG

It's only with cannabis that I have understood how utterly valuable this entire gene pool is. I have grown other vegetables and there are there too people doing the good work of keeping heirloom lines going. But it wasn't till cannabis that I know I must do this as well as I possibly can. It's something the people before us did and so must we if the future is to be able to share in the joys of this plant with us.

[Bobbo4200]

Do you lollipop them at all for flower?

[WaterFarmFan]

Originally Posted by Bobbo4200

Do you lollipop them at all for flower?

Hey Bobbo. I might be a bit old school, but I strongly feel that fan leaves are the engine for the plant and that when at all possible you want to tuck versus cut, but I really do clean up the bottom growth and leaves that don't get a lot of light. Also a fan of DE HPS that has lots of penetrating power and not just PAR.

[Bobbo4200]

Yeah me too, I'm in a small tent so I guess I try to get all the energy up top.

[WaterFarmFan]

Originally Posted by Bobbo4200

Yeah me too, I'm in a small tent so I guess I try to get all the energy up top.

Iv'e done several dozen cycles in tents myself. Still use them for veg and early flower stages. A little trick that I found with 4x4 tents is to wrap the outside with radiant barrier material and foil tape on the seams. It will make the tent 100% light proof and add some FLIR masking as well. I am old school, so i still wrap the inside of my tents (side walls only) with highly reflective mylar. With some fans blowing around, the mylar shimmers and reflects lights light in all different directions. Tops get blasted from HID but the lowers get a lot of light from side reflection.

[Bobbo4200]

Hmm, defs something to think of. Thanks

[WaterFarmFan]

Here is a real stunner that is knocked up. This is a different pheno of Gorilla Dosha than I posted earlier. She definitely leans to the Dosidos with peanut butter cookie funk, but with added beef from the GG4. Dusted about two weeks ago on day 30 and these shots are around day 45.

[WaterFarmFan]

Just completed the pollination on the last group. I ended up using about 70% of my pollen that I collected to pollinate a total of 27 different females. Based on the number of nylon write-on zip ties that I used, total number of crosses should be in ~280 range. I would guess total seeds to come in between 30k-100k. I was as careful as I could be and dusted lower branches first, but I am sure a bit of cross-contamination happened. I hope 80% (8 out of 10 seeds) are properly labeled. This might seem like blasphemy to some, but the prospect of sorting through almost 300 unique lines is far more important to me personally. Will post a list of my final keepers as I culled some females and decided to not use pollen of a few strains based on growth I saw during flowering.

Below is a pic of my branch labeling: