I’m sure I’ll try and save any male stuff from mine when I try them. I have Malawi, Colom. Gold x Malawi Gold, and Lemon Thai that I will definitely make seeds with. I have the Panama Red, too, but no verification. I do have a slight chance at locating the old hippy dude who gifted my young friend.
I also have a pile of old Mexi landrace seeds that came from the same guy I think. I failed at my first attempt to germ but it was all my fault. I’ll know this time if they are good or not. I’m sure some will pop.
I’ve never smoked the Malawi that I know of and not sure what to expect. I would like to keep collecting pollen, especially from any landrace or IBL/heirloom strains, and make sure I’m storing it in a manner that I can depend on it when I’m ready. It’d be nice to have a small library of strains ready to breed.
I have some pollen in the fridge that has rice in it and parchment paper, then double bagged and in the butter compartment in the upper fridge door that hasn’t been opened almost at all. It’s over a year old I believe, so I’ll get to test it this week. I actually have about 3 strains and I’m in the process of collecting at least 6 others.
One of the current ones is Silverfields and I have a cross of Sannies Jack x SilverFields beginning flowering now, so I’d like to hit some limbs. That’ll give me an idea of the shelf life of this stuff.
Best vibes. I’ll enjoy tagging along to watch! peace
Those Dutch Durb x Landrace Durbs really started pumping out narrower leaves now that they’re mostly through stretch. Still not quite like the CBG Durban. But we slammed some CBG Durban pollen on those as well, so the next gen should be even more sativa heavy!
Everybody’s still crackin’ on. I had them at 1.4 so I upped the mix to 1.6. Cranked lights to max and raised em all the way up. Those durbans are getting 80k flux, but no burn so I’m happy.
Durbans have very different growth - same strain on far left and far right yet one on left has hyper extended christmas tree branches and one on right is a single stalk.
I finally cleared the rest of the males from my tent. Here’s the 3 mxp males. Two with large internodes and big hollow stems. Center is looking like a much better structure, shorter and more developed so far in flower. These have about 2 weeks to live before I’ll have to collect what I can and kill them ded.
Pollinated a couple branches on the MxP with one of the shortest/best MxP males @lefthandseeds has kept in his dirty dirty male tent for me. We liked it best amongst the other two because those had ungodly internode length.
Notice the pile of fan leaves to the right of the MxP above? Yeah the durbans killed all those off this week after some crazy deficiency. I flushed them and upped feedings to 3x a day.
Here’s the last shot I’ll have of the MxP males. I’m collecting pollen today and taking them down. They can barely stand up anymore… they’re in little pots not much bigger than a solo cup.
Maybe you could do the bud wash regimen of 2-3 buckets to remove any mold. It’s supposed to wash the PM off, but I never heard of this predicament.
Yeah, you could hit with bleach water but not sure how the plants will like that either… Might be worth a little time looking into it further. Best vibes!
I orbitally nuked the entire area with a spraybottle of that mix. In the process I murdered at least 200 fungus gnats - at least I’m guessing they don’t like bleach. Get fucked!
I realized I have multiple labs locally. I’ll literally just take a sample over of one plant and pay $30 to get it verified. It’ll also be interesting to get a potency readout on the MxP.
MxP’s wispy flowers, trichs crawling way out on fans. This thing is probably going to be a mental roller coaster. It has weeeeeks to go and I’m getting impatient, but like all good things in life…
We crossed a kick ass male with the long internode plant, I think we did the “pole” as well but the tape might have fallen off! @lefthandseeds will have to confirm but I believe the male was Cannabiogen.
