[WaterFarmFan]

For the last 18 months, I have been working through ~70 breeder packs. I would keep the best looking male (or two) for each strain, and then if I liked the females, I would keep the male, but most would eventually get the chop. These would get put in the corner of the veg space and topped repeatedly. I managed to keep them (almost) all alive.

So, I am getting ready to make a boat load of crosses with keeper females, but I need to get that pollen first. I stopped all female flowering and put the males in the main room. These 24 males, from breeders including Ace, Bodhi, BOG, Dying Breed, Karma, Thug Pug, Tony Green, Top Dawg and a few others, have been flowering for about 2 weeks now.

I thought that I would create a thread and showcase some of the real studs. Below is a group picture at lights off today. More soon...

[~star~crash~]

wait ...you actually grew out 70 packs of seeds for the goal of finding males? that's amazing ... how many plants did you sort thru ? how long did it take? what did you end up with? peace

[Vanilla Phoenix]

This is different..... I’m in! What strains would you consider your top 3 males?

[Lester Beans]

So your plan is to collect pollen and then flower females and pollinate?

Nice looking man cave ya got there! Should result in some killer crosses.

I'll follow along and see what becomes of this orgy.

[WaterFarmFan]

Up first are some early shots of one of my favorite sativas - Ace Zamaldelica. This stud is going to hit all of my best poly-hybrid girls to hopefully make something special (like cookie frost with soaring high).

[WaterFarmFan]

Originally Posted by ~star~crash~

wait ...you actually grew out 70 packs of seeds for the goal of finding males? that's amazing ... how many plants did you sort thru ? how long did it take? what did you end up with? peace

Hey Star Crash! Yep, I grew some full packs and other half packs (at least 6 seeds). For a year and a half, I ran a perpetual setup with non-stop new genetics. I did run maybe a dozen ladies twice, but I estimate at least 250 different females. Very fucking cool experience.

The goal of this project was to select the very, very best females and males, and then make several hundred crosses (+100k seeds total) that I could spend the rest of my life exploring, breeding and working deep lines. Not for some glory of riches, but to do something that I love with the plant that I love...

[WaterFarmFan]

Originally Posted by Vanilla Phoenix

This is different..... I’m in! What strains would you consider your top 3 males?

Thanks! Different indeed, so I thought I would share my experiences. Most people don't really get to watch their males develop and differentiate traits between strains.

At this point (only going off vigor and experiences with their sister plants), I would say:

Ace's Panama, Karma's Road Dawg & Dying Breed's Watermelon Zum Zum

[WaterFarmFan]

Originally Posted by Lester Beans

So your plan is to collect pollen and then flower females and pollinate?

Nice looking man cave ya got there! Should result in some killer crosses.

I'll follow along and see what becomes of this orgy.

Hey Lester! Yep, plan is collect pollen from each strain individually, store in individual paper envelops, properly dry with desiccant and store long term in deep freezer. I will set aside a decent portion of pollen from each strain, and after I am done with males (and cleaned pollen from all areas), I will flower my keeper females and with a paint brush, individually dust labeled branches. Each female will have 10-16 tops (or potential for F2s or crosses).

So, less of an orgy (pollen chuck) and more of a really fucking big IVF program. He he. I know that I will have a bit of pollen drift, but if I can get ~80-90% accuracy than I will be super happy. I really don't mind if a happy accident creeps in.

[Bmac1]

Pulling up a seat.

[WaterFarmFan]

Originally Posted by Vanilla Phoenix

This is different..... I’m in! What strains would you consider your top 3 males?

On second thought, I will add males from Dungeon Vault Genetic's Foul Mouth and False Teeth to list that I have the highest hopes for. Also have a Thug Pug Peanut Butter Breath male (very heavy breath dom) that mirrors a PBB female, which I consider the strongest non-sativa that I grew.

But that Panama... It checks virtually every box (yield, potency, balls to wall high, and strong vigor). I have two Panama males and three different keeper phenos of Panama females to play with.