I've wanted to play with AFs for a while now, mostly to try to make my own AF strains.
A couple years ago I was given some Masterlow seeds. I was only able to successfully get one to grow and it was a male. I managed to collect a very small amount of pollen.
This pollen sat in the freezer and was forgotten until I pulled out the pollen collection to make some seeds and saw it laying there.
At the time I had some PBSxSD plants going (pbs = purple bagseed). This was a cross I made the other year and it is my current favorite bud to smoke.
I took what little pollen there was and tried hitting up a PBSxSD that was in flower. The pollen was from my earliest collection attempts and was not in the best shape. I only managed to get a whole 3 seeds from that pollination.
I started one of those seeds (PBSxSD x ML) and it's a fem. The plant is currently a little older than 50 days. It's small like the Masterlow I'm growing in my other thread because of cool temps early on.
If I understand the method to breed an AF, it can be done in 3 steps with AF pollen.
The first step is done (PBSxSD x ML). The 3 seeds that came from this cross should all be AF recessive.
The (PBSxSD x ML) that is growing will be transplanted to a 3gal container and stuck into flower in the next day or two.
Here's some pics from the other day
Day 50
Once she gets growing a bit more, I plan on hitting her up with some Masterlow pollen, so I'll have (PBSxSD x ML) x ML. This should give me approx half AF and half non-AF seeds.
Then one more step of choosing a nice AF fem from those seeds and hitting it up with ML one last time.
A couple years ago I was given some Masterlow seeds. I was only able to successfully get one to grow and it was a male. I managed to collect a very small amount of pollen.
This pollen sat in the freezer and was forgotten until I pulled out the pollen collection to make some seeds and saw it laying there.
At the time I had some PBSxSD plants going (pbs = purple bagseed). This was a cross I made the other year and it is my current favorite bud to smoke.
I took what little pollen there was and tried hitting up a PBSxSD that was in flower. The pollen was from my earliest collection attempts and was not in the best shape. I only managed to get a whole 3 seeds from that pollination.
I started one of those seeds (PBSxSD x ML) and it's a fem. The plant is currently a little older than 50 days. It's small like the Masterlow I'm growing in my other thread because of cool temps early on.
If I understand the method to breed an AF, it can be done in 3 steps with AF pollen.
The first step is done (PBSxSD x ML). The 3 seeds that came from this cross should all be AF recessive.
The (PBSxSD x ML) that is growing will be transplanted to a 3gal container and stuck into flower in the next day or two.
Here's some pics from the other day
Day 50
Once she gets growing a bit more, I plan on hitting her up with some Masterlow pollen, so I'll have (PBSxSD x ML) x ML. This should give me approx half AF and half non-AF seeds.
Then one more step of choosing a nice AF fem from those seeds and hitting it up with ML one last time.