MBS test grow .......

[jonnybgood29]

as i said before, this is the year to seed, so it might just be very possible. im making my nightmare diesel, if i find a good pair, also crossing it to white strawberry diesel, mbs, and z99. then planning on running f2 of blackberry banana kush, followed by insane jane..... looks like i better hold on to any mbs males as well! going to have my own seed bank soon since i always do a full plant seeding!

 

[foomar]

Went a bit overboard on the seeding last year , just doing partial pollinations for a couple of hundred now and trying to work through a decent number of a fridgefull.

This antipodes is sidelit on the edge of the grow , shaded side is a strange pastel violet , side faceing the light is deep purple , not noticed this before as i usually move or turn them every day or two.

 

[Guest 114956]

loving the colours on those foomar, almost a shame there gunna get burnt lol..

 

[moonunit]

I know i have said it here before but i will say it again, lovely work m8, loving the show and your work. The colours contained in your antipodes line are almost soothing, calming yet inviting.
Much respect
Moonunit

 

[happyherb]

Nice . HH. =]-~

 

[foomar]

Thanks ijdc and happyherb , suprisingly difficult to capture purple shades accurately and slight differences in peoples gamma settings means most see something slightly different anyway.

Hi moonunit , the pastel shades on some are really beautifull , this has the brilliant white pistills that usually fade to a glorious gold wire on purple look by the end.

Seem to have rooting late flower clones nailed down , eight days , all have revegged easy so far.

This is a quick test of the dark original MBS girl , crossed with the selected male from a recent Casey Jones run.
No idea which traits will dominate this mix and the male is unworked , smokeing a mixture of the two lines suggests it could be very satisfying and seriously strong.

These were by far the worst quality seed i made last year , mother was way too late in and only got 25 days till root aphids finally killed it , still 10 ex 10 which shows some enthusiasm at least.

 

[foomar]

The green antipodes are cute , this is nearly as short as the mother , serious MBS clinging sweaty odours on this pale one , rottencrotch expression , low yield but gets a second run.

Mrs Foomar says it smells like thrush , will take her word for that.

This compact bushy one has the tart burnt rubber smell of the mother , looser bud structure , thinner leaves and heavy underleaf triching , not a keeper.

Hard not to take a pic of this one , reckon i got lucky within the first thirty this time , lost the unpleasent Blackberry taste and kept most of the colour , the MBS has vastly improved the structure and vigour , the mother is very compact with small running buds on thin stems , not seen these traits expressed in any antipodes so far.

Six clones following , this one warrants a bit of space and a trial in hydro for yield , if it comes in below 65 days it will be popular locally.

Believe there may be sterility issues with some Blackberry genetics , could not get a strike with three C99 X Blackberry males , the darkest males from an extensive C99 X Blackberry x Geisha test produced a handfull of near black males and only one will pollinate and produce viable seed.

Similar issues with Blackberry crosses from other sources that i have not documented on here in respect of site rules.

The original clone seems to have dissapeared with Nebu , who sits in a swiss cave guarding the precious like gollum , as its possibly the only true canna mutation found i would have loved a chance to play with it.

 

[BENJI]

Nice work foomar...

 

[paulo73]

Brilliant work all around.
Just a quick question if i can. What´s your cloning method?
Quite impressive those roots on a flowering side branch and how fast did they change to reveg. Any clues on that?
Sorry for picking up your brains
Keep up the great work please.

 

[benjuanman]

Great work foomar those are great pics and plants man!!

 

[Donald Mallard]

The green antipodes are cute , this is nearly as short as the mother , serious MBS clinging sweaty odours on this pale one , rottencrotch expression , low yield but gets a second run.

Mrs Foomar says it smells like thrush , will take her word for that.

This compact bushy one has the tart burnt rubber smell of the mother , looser bud structure , thinner leaves and heavy underleaf triching , not a keeper.

Hard not to take a pic of this one , reckon i got lucky within the first thirty this time , lost the unpleasent Blackberry taste and kept most of the colour , the MBS has vastly improved the structure and vigour , the mother is very compact with small running buds on thin stems , not seen these traits expressed in any antipodes so far.

Six clones following , this one warrants a bit of space and a trial in hydro for yield , if it comes in below 65 days it will be popular locally.

Believe there may be sterility issues with some Blackberry genetics , could not get a strike with three C99 X Blackberry males , the darkest males from an extensive C99 X Blackberry x Geisha test produced a handfull of near black males and only one will pollinate and produce viable seed.

Similar issues with Blackberry crosses from other sources that i have not documented on here in respect of site rules.

The original clone seems to have dissapeared with Nebu , who sits in a swiss cave guarding the precious like gollum , as its possibly the only true canna mutation found i would have loved a chance to play with it.

hey foomar ,
usually i dont like when folks quote and show all the pics again , but those are certainly worthy of a second view ..

interesting how most of the males you found in the c99 bb lot were sterile ,
recalling the female i used took easily to seed from its c99 stud ,, '
but i didnt use any males of t hat variety ,,
mine were sourced from ogerguskid , not sure of the actual name , but most know who i refer too ..
they were an s1 , quite pretty flowers ,, lots of resin ,, reminded me of durban poison ...

i get a lot of joy seeing how t he mbs has married with the c99 blackberry ,
i was confident it could make a nice union , and soo pleasing to see the work youve done foomar to make it so ..]
i might have missed where u mention the flavour , smell , from the last pic of antipodes , so happy if you elaborate more , a second time if so , hehe ..

 

[foomar]

Thanks for the positive comments , would be hard to take a bad pic of some of these but struggling with lighting , a couple just stop you dead when you walk in the room and demand to be photographed , hope they smoke as good.

Paulo , just a basic and filthy bubbler with no dome , rootzone temp maintained at 78 f , stem abraded and dry powder rooting agent rubbed in.

Working well right up to chop day , 4 - 6 weeks till reflower , even with the reveg they catch up fast , look healthier out of LED lights.

Would never go back to a roomfull of one plant , screw the yield its going to look lovely till spring in the cold.

This reminds me of some coral a mate has in his reef aquarium.

This one is late to reveal colour , hint of purple around the leaf margins and no red stemmed trichomes , generic C99 odours , minimal Blackberry colour traits here and should have MBS flavour dominant bud by the end.

Hi Donald , the Antipodes and MBS F,2s have a similar and overlapping range of odours , the most desirable ones to me seperate the flavour and colour components , takeing a preferred flavour range from the male side.

The colours are a joy and its a good sharp smoke , but the aftertaste of burnt insulation is a problem and its better mixed than alone.

Worked well with a Geisha male , better colour and more of them with the MBS male , haveing C99 on both parental lines may be reduceing a predicted large number of expressions and throwbacks to a manageable and workable number.

From the reasonable number of the Geisha cross grown out , the Blackberry genes have six identifiable markers that occur in certain pairs , some always present and some mutually exclusive.
Different pairing with the MBS male , crossing the two worked lines eventually could be interesting and produce the missing expressions.

Half the girls of all colours are sweet citrus variants , half are MBS fuel/medicinal , one DC influenced heavy meaty indica , the plant pictured is sharp grapefruit fadeing fast to something danker.

Two MBS f2,s have distinct delicate strawberry odours when glassed , taste wiped out when lit but nice to crumble , a very wide range of flavours turning up in these.

 

[foomar]

 

[foomar]

Can get away with haveing them packed this tight under the light as long as i move and turn regular , a poor way to do it but gets the numbers through.

And if they cannot tolerate a little stress i dont want them , cant keep everything and this allows a cull of the bicurious first run.

The lower node sideshoots have all been stripped for clones , allows good ventilation to help offset the risk of mould from touching leaves.

 

[jonnybgood29]

sea of green at its finest!

 

[foomar]

With this number of metre high untopped plants under a 600 , this should be a sea of despair.
If you create a box of green with stageing you can grow acceptable plants with half the light levels reccommended.

The odd really tall one that goes past the reflector seems little bothered , strangely the trichomes are just as dense being underlit with reflected light.

This top of this tall green MBS dominant girl barely saw a direct photon but is potent stuff , indistinguishable from the original MBS mother apart from the alarming stretch in veg.

Other crosses with Wally,s plant have thrown very few individuals that show no Blackberry traits at all , the MBS male is far more dominant than a Geisha previously worked in this respect.

 

[foomar]

But these two definately show some Blackberry pastel colours , though a blind grower would probably choose different expressions , they are more than eye candy.

Potency is around half that of the Chem D x Casey running alongside , the original MBS are generally stronger than the Antipodes , which means i can smoke more of it

This one is a real cutie , has the asymetric fan structure to the top from seed , another grapefruit smelling one in mid flower , seems common across expressions.

Picking up some gold .

And should end up looking like the C99 x Blackberry mother from years back in the thread that started the purple madness ......

 

[jonnybgood29]

hey foomar, i wonder if i can bother you with a couple of pics on wednesday.... im nearing the time of my own project and as soon as im sure of male/female which appears to be two of each, im going to need your expert eyes to tell me the best female for my project. i can post the girls here or pm you.

 

[foomar]

Hi jonny , would take moonunits or Donalds opinion on that if you have to choose just one.
In reality its such a small additional effort to use both males seperately on both girls and label everything that i would suggest this option.

Cant tell any real difference between males in my simple MBS incross , but run enougth and you probably will , all other well worked crosses have .



This was emerald green a week ago and picking up normal cold colours fast.

This is looking good , very like the mother without the bitch to trim structure.

 

[foomar]

Two really cold nights and one has gone so dark i did not recognise it at first , still actively growing thanks to the relatively warm roots in a redesigned room.

Mouldy fruit smell is alarming , close to the feared budrot odour and caused a minor panic.


This one has a different expression of the colour traits , has gained a pronounced sugar leaf upcurl and a lot of trichs along with the important stem structure.