Hello all you potheads out there. Lets start this off with a little introduction and project objective. As for the intro, well I'm not too good at that stuff kind of anti social if you know what I mean. As for the objective, GOOD POT of course. Basicly my thing is bagseed breeding. Now, before I start getting flamed let me explain myself. I know a lot of people think bagseed is a waste of time, but I seem to have it in abundance these days so WTF it's what I like to do. There are untold amounts of quality genetics hidden away in bagseed, especially in my region. I live in the second highest region for production in the U.S. Hence, there are a lot of very underated and unmolested gene pools waiting to be worked over. I've been collecting seeds for years that have come from the growers in the area. This is stuff you can't find anywhere else. Most of these seedlines date back 30 years or more.
This stuff is a family affair in these mountains. Most of the plants are openly pollinated in medium sized plots as it has been since before I was born. The growers always use seeds from the previous harvest and it is a repeating cycle. I can't be positive what the lineage of the seeds are but I'm about 95% sure they came from good ole Mexico. The perplexing thing is they all look to be sativa indica mixes. I've grown a lot of seeds from mexican brick so I feel confident in saying that I see a good bit of difference in the stuff I grow and the brick seeds I used to mess with. Same as with commercial seedlines I've had experience with. My guess is that the stuff grown by the croppers around here originated south of the border but was tinkered with a little bit 30 years ago or it was tinkered with in mexico for production purposes. But anyways, that long ago there were'nt that many major places this stuff was coming in from in large quantitys. I guess they could be Columbian or Jamaican or even African I just don't know. If anyone has any clue as to where most of the imported weed came from in the southeastern U.S that long ago please enlighten me, I would like to know what I'm working with.
Now on with the good stuff. I have a minimal setup, flower cab, mother space, veg cab. I've been doing this for about ten years now and I've found out that I'm just not the type of person to deal with the upkeep of a large operation. It takes me longer for my parental selection for this reason. If you couple that with the fact that you have to go through a lot more seeds to find good breeding material with bagseed you should understand that this is not a fast progressing project. For each run I reach into my seed box and blindly pull out a pack of seeds I saved from some locally grown pot or that was gifted by the croppers. I pop every seed I have from that group and only the strong survive. Sometimes I find a good candidate sometimes I don't. The smoke test says it all.
As for my breeding everything I have done so far are hybrids. That is how I plan to keep it until I run out of unknown genetics, but I don't plan on letting that happen. What I want out of this project is what everyone wants, a short fast flowering plant with killer yeild and potency that is uniquely my own. But we all know how often you find a plant that has it all, I haven't yet. For the first cross I wanted to enure that I could have a short fast flowering indoor sized plant. My selected mother came from a batch of seeds that came from a family on the KY TN border. The plant looked about as indica dominant as any but just refused to grow any large fan leaves, even outside. The largest leaf on this thing was maybe the size of a hand. Not that it matters but I found it appealing. It was short and stocky, extremely branchy, to the point that it was wider than it was tall it's whole lifespan. The potency was average but the taste and smell were what caught me. This plant was just plain dank. It tasted like dirt, rosemary and skunk. And I mean REAL skunk. So here I stood with a perfectly good mother wondering what other traits this beauty was hiding so I needed to find a father. As I said before in this first cross I was looking for a short fast flowering plant. So thats what I needed in my father also. I was not fortunate enough to find a suitable father in the same seed batch as the mother. I decided I wanted to find a father with a known pedigree to start this with so I can ensure better results with the first cross. After poking around for a couple of weeks I decided to use a micro pheno Master Low male. Don't hate, I do what I want. The father was a total of 6.5 inches when it decided it had served it's life purpose. I'm not looking to stabilize the auto flower trait. I wanted to decrease the size and shorten the flower cycle. In the offspring there were two distinct phenos, a columner one that resembled the father but larger and faster to bud with the mothers taste and smell. The other one was branchy and short like the mother but did not taste like either of the parents. It tasted slightly like pine and ammonia but was not a real strong taste. It also yeilded a little more. After the smoke test I decide to use the columner pheno that retained the mothers taste for my next cross. They both had the same potency as the mother and were ready to chop at six weeks.
I'm about written out for tonight so I will bring you guys up to date on the next two generations until the point at wich I am now. Maybe I'll get some pics up if I remember to buy batteries for my cam,,,,,,,,,, and learn how to use it to. I'll also try to give you guys some specs on my setup also. Good night from the top of the mountain.
This stuff is a family affair in these mountains. Most of the plants are openly pollinated in medium sized plots as it has been since before I was born. The growers always use seeds from the previous harvest and it is a repeating cycle. I can't be positive what the lineage of the seeds are but I'm about 95% sure they came from good ole Mexico. The perplexing thing is they all look to be sativa indica mixes. I've grown a lot of seeds from mexican brick so I feel confident in saying that I see a good bit of difference in the stuff I grow and the brick seeds I used to mess with. Same as with commercial seedlines I've had experience with. My guess is that the stuff grown by the croppers around here originated south of the border but was tinkered with a little bit 30 years ago or it was tinkered with in mexico for production purposes. But anyways, that long ago there were'nt that many major places this stuff was coming in from in large quantitys. I guess they could be Columbian or Jamaican or even African I just don't know. If anyone has any clue as to where most of the imported weed came from in the southeastern U.S that long ago please enlighten me, I would like to know what I'm working with.
Now on with the good stuff. I have a minimal setup, flower cab, mother space, veg cab. I've been doing this for about ten years now and I've found out that I'm just not the type of person to deal with the upkeep of a large operation. It takes me longer for my parental selection for this reason. If you couple that with the fact that you have to go through a lot more seeds to find good breeding material with bagseed you should understand that this is not a fast progressing project. For each run I reach into my seed box and blindly pull out a pack of seeds I saved from some locally grown pot or that was gifted by the croppers. I pop every seed I have from that group and only the strong survive. Sometimes I find a good candidate sometimes I don't. The smoke test says it all.
As for my breeding everything I have done so far are hybrids. That is how I plan to keep it until I run out of unknown genetics, but I don't plan on letting that happen. What I want out of this project is what everyone wants, a short fast flowering plant with killer yeild and potency that is uniquely my own. But we all know how often you find a plant that has it all, I haven't yet. For the first cross I wanted to enure that I could have a short fast flowering indoor sized plant. My selected mother came from a batch of seeds that came from a family on the KY TN border. The plant looked about as indica dominant as any but just refused to grow any large fan leaves, even outside. The largest leaf on this thing was maybe the size of a hand. Not that it matters but I found it appealing. It was short and stocky, extremely branchy, to the point that it was wider than it was tall it's whole lifespan. The potency was average but the taste and smell were what caught me. This plant was just plain dank. It tasted like dirt, rosemary and skunk. And I mean REAL skunk. So here I stood with a perfectly good mother wondering what other traits this beauty was hiding so I needed to find a father. As I said before in this first cross I was looking for a short fast flowering plant. So thats what I needed in my father also. I was not fortunate enough to find a suitable father in the same seed batch as the mother. I decided I wanted to find a father with a known pedigree to start this with so I can ensure better results with the first cross. After poking around for a couple of weeks I decided to use a micro pheno Master Low male. Don't hate, I do what I want. The father was a total of 6.5 inches when it decided it had served it's life purpose. I'm not looking to stabilize the auto flower trait. I wanted to decrease the size and shorten the flower cycle. In the offspring there were two distinct phenos, a columner one that resembled the father but larger and faster to bud with the mothers taste and smell. The other one was branchy and short like the mother but did not taste like either of the parents. It tasted slightly like pine and ammonia but was not a real strong taste. It also yeilded a little more. After the smoke test I decide to use the columner pheno that retained the mothers taste for my next cross. They both had the same potency as the mother and were ready to chop at six weeks.
I'm about written out for tonight so I will bring you guys up to date on the next two generations until the point at wich I am now. Maybe I'll get some pics up if I remember to buy batteries for my cam,,,,,,,,,, and learn how to use it to. I'll also try to give you guys some specs on my setup also. Good night from the top of the mountain.
