Lammy
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I've got 12 Ace-Malawi regular and 11 OG Rascal's- Fire OG BX regular is on the way.
I could use any advice from anybody that has any experience as I don't really have any experience with pure sativas.
I want to cross Malawi * Fire OG. That may seem offensive to some people. the Malawi certainly doesn't need any improving. I would like to infuse the Malawi experience into the familiar / popular OG's. most importantly I want to: retain the smell of the OG, the stone of the Malawi, increase vigor / yield of the OG, keep the flowering time to 10wks or less and have good bag appeal. is this asking too much?
it should be noted that I have never smoked the Malawi. I've probably smoked some OG, but its not my thing.
the fire OG says it flowers for 60-70; I guess I could live with a cross that went a little bit longer if I had to. I can accept that the stone might/will not be quite as potent as the Malawi. which again I've never even tried. I just think it would be cool to mix exotic land race into the heavily inbred OG line
my end goal is not to make a bunch of seeds that meet my criteria but to find a single elite mother plant out of the F1's. I am planning on growing out both packs of beans to find parents. and to make/label every possible cross between the fire OG and the Malawi on my first run with both of those. then most likely only grow out the seeds from the best females after I harvested and had a chance to judge them.
I feel like I'm not really qualified to judge a male very well. and I'm willing to grow out the cross of every single male against the selected female(s). so maybe I should concentrate on a single cross of a male fire OG times the best female Malawi considering there should be less genetic diversity in the OG so the selection might be less important?
I've heard that different traits are inherited from the male or the female. I believe it said the smell comes from the male. does anyone think that that is true? if so then I should probably try to cross with the male OG.
I wanted to try to avoid storing pollen. so I'd like to be able to directly pollinate and I was wondering when the male Malawi's would be ready to release pollen? also what is the time window for pollinating a Malawi female?
do you I think I could find a good body effect if I crossed the Malawi with an indica hybrid such as an OG?
how likely might it be, that I would get the speediness with the body effect?
would there be a possible benefit to using the feminized Malawi as well as regular Malawi to find a mother plant? and would it be worth the extra trouble? because I only have so many square feet to dedicate to this when I'm making seeds. but I'll have more room and time and resources to dedicate when I grow out the f1 seeds.
how much variation in these f1 seeds could I expect? okay I don't expect anybody to be a fortune teller or anything. I was hoping there would be enough variation in these f1's that I could find a single female that meets my criteria if i grow out 20-100 females. but I'm hoping they would not be as homogeneous as most seeds for sale. I would think with more homogeneity I would have to look through more seeds to find what I'm looking for?
I'm also wondering how important it would be to grow out seedlots from different parental combinations? originally I figured if I grew out some seeds from each of the seedlots. I could then try and figure which seedlots appeared the most promising. then I could do a second round focusing on the seed lots that seems the most promising. (NOT F2'S).
but that seems like a lot of work and I just wonder if it might be just as good. if I grow out a bunch of seeds from a male OG to the female Malawi with the best effect.
i welcome anybody's opinion on any of these million questions and topics that I brought up. for the pollination part of the breeding I'm trying to just keep it as simple as possible by just thinking it out thoroughly ahead of time and starting the plants at the right time.
congratulations if you made it this far I know I exceed the attention span of most stoners.
thank you
Lammy
I could use any advice from anybody that has any experience as I don't really have any experience with pure sativas.
I want to cross Malawi * Fire OG. That may seem offensive to some people. the Malawi certainly doesn't need any improving. I would like to infuse the Malawi experience into the familiar / popular OG's. most importantly I want to: retain the smell of the OG, the stone of the Malawi, increase vigor / yield of the OG, keep the flowering time to 10wks or less and have good bag appeal. is this asking too much?
it should be noted that I have never smoked the Malawi. I've probably smoked some OG, but its not my thing.
the fire OG says it flowers for 60-70; I guess I could live with a cross that went a little bit longer if I had to. I can accept that the stone might/will not be quite as potent as the Malawi. which again I've never even tried. I just think it would be cool to mix exotic land race into the heavily inbred OG line
my end goal is not to make a bunch of seeds that meet my criteria but to find a single elite mother plant out of the F1's. I am planning on growing out both packs of beans to find parents. and to make/label every possible cross between the fire OG and the Malawi on my first run with both of those. then most likely only grow out the seeds from the best females after I harvested and had a chance to judge them.
I feel like I'm not really qualified to judge a male very well. and I'm willing to grow out the cross of every single male against the selected female(s). so maybe I should concentrate on a single cross of a male fire OG times the best female Malawi considering there should be less genetic diversity in the OG so the selection might be less important?
I've heard that different traits are inherited from the male or the female. I believe it said the smell comes from the male. does anyone think that that is true? if so then I should probably try to cross with the male OG.
I wanted to try to avoid storing pollen. so I'd like to be able to directly pollinate and I was wondering when the male Malawi's would be ready to release pollen? also what is the time window for pollinating a Malawi female?
If you are looking for good sativa mix without heavy body effect I'd try a hybrid between Vietnam Black, Thai and Haze. Malawi is very strong body effect but sometimes you can get very strong speedic effects without body heaviness crossing malawi with other pure sativas (for example Golden Tiger).
do you I think I could find a good body effect if I crossed the Malawi with an indica hybrid such as an OG?
how likely might it be, that I would get the speediness with the body effect?
would there be a possible benefit to using the feminized Malawi as well as regular Malawi to find a mother plant? and would it be worth the extra trouble? because I only have so many square feet to dedicate to this when I'm making seeds. but I'll have more room and time and resources to dedicate when I grow out the f1 seeds.
how much variation in these f1 seeds could I expect? okay I don't expect anybody to be a fortune teller or anything. I was hoping there would be enough variation in these f1's that I could find a single female that meets my criteria if i grow out 20-100 females. but I'm hoping they would not be as homogeneous as most seeds for sale. I would think with more homogeneity I would have to look through more seeds to find what I'm looking for?
I'm also wondering how important it would be to grow out seedlots from different parental combinations? originally I figured if I grew out some seeds from each of the seedlots. I could then try and figure which seedlots appeared the most promising. then I could do a second round focusing on the seed lots that seems the most promising. (NOT F2'S).
but that seems like a lot of work and I just wonder if it might be just as good. if I grow out a bunch of seeds from a male OG to the female Malawi with the best effect.
i welcome anybody's opinion on any of these million questions and topics that I brought up. for the pollination part of the breeding I'm trying to just keep it as simple as possible by just thinking it out thoroughly ahead of time and starting the plants at the right time.
congratulations if you made it this far I know I exceed the attention span of most stoners.
thank you
Lammy