A big bears grows and tribulations

Yep it’s a bit purple compared to the rest.

I let these girls get very unwieldy and they are a bit bare from all the cuttings ive taken.
But they are looking better

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91 Chem 12 #3 has a moderate level of genetic variation (red indicator line).

Sour Diesel has a moderate level of genetic variation (red indicator line).

I’m starting to like the phylos website. This info is invaluable.

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Talking it over with my pretty friend at the extension office I’m decided on focusing on the diesel project almost completely. The phylos info tells me this will not take too many generations to pull off.
Today I’m repotting what I believe are all males from the dynamite diesel and 91chem12
This first one has nothing to show for structure but has a heavy terpene output for it’s age and it’s supposed sex.


A few pics of the other contenders the green cups are dynamite.
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The plan is to mate a sour-d clone to dynamite (stardawg X ecsd)
And a sour-d clone to 91chem12
I’ll check out the offspring of each pairing.
I’m not looking for good production at all.
My breeding goal is a really powerful and uniform terp profile, great flavor and destructive potency. This will be an artisanal plant not recommend for commercial grows.
Here’s some pics of the mothers put to flower for dark heart nurseries sour-d and blue dream.
They’ve gotten too tall so I’ve decided to test their stress response by snapping every branch that gets close. If they respond poorly I may rethink my clone source but so far I’ve put them through hell and I’m very happily finding no bananas so far.

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what is your plan for selecting a male?? will you be breeding each male to a specific female then growing out the progeny to select your male?? how are you keeping your males on deck, just keeping them in veg ??

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i’m thinking more about the pretty friend. i hope she isn’t a diesel:joy: :truck:

:evergreen_tree:

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Being that I don’t have a lot of male options I’ll likely take what I can get for these four and push male selection into the following generations.

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Oh yes I’m keeping the males on an 18 HR light schedule Which holds them for a while and I will likely select a female for each.
I had entertained doing a matrilineal breeding method for a few generations and then hunting for a supreme male out of the offspring when I see more uniform homogeny.

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Something like this


Like that. After the first cross (sour d X 91ch12) f1 labeled “redf1”
And (sour-d X dynadiesel) f1 labeled “blackf1”

Pick a male from red f1 and cross back to sour-d to make generation “red f2”.

Pick a male from black f1 and cross back to sour-d to make generation “black f2”

Continue to redf3 and black f3 or higher. Eventually finding a male in each worth keeping and then crossing the red to the black lines swapping to patrilineal.

Edit: I may decide to swap out the initial dynamite male with a second 91chem 12 male but that may be way too inbred. I could also do all three.

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Finished repotting veg tent, hoping for males!
Sour-d clone in the middle.
And unapologetically blurple lol. 150 watts actual at wall between two 50 watt ufos and three recycled cobs out of the red conversions.
91#12 on the right and Dynamite diesel on the left
More blue dream and sour-d on the bottom.



I will do a blue dream project like this one possibly using dj shorts blueberry X darkhearts blue dream clones if I can get a hold of the dj short beans.

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Some early bud porn and off the strain rhetoric.
I think we’re 3 weeks flower.
I love it when my babies pray.


The thinner leaved blue dream is my first growing a type of haze.

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Nice they are really praising the lord!

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Aside from popping my last two 91chem 12 seeds I thought with the extra growing room in the veg tent, I’d take a little chem break during or after the breeding projects.
I’ve planted 3 princess 75 seeds from LED seeds
3 of the void by tga subcool for some good purple flavor and my first run at a Cinderella variety
Also planted 3 of GPS dreamcatcher ( blue dream/ stardawg) hopefully to cross to my dark heart nursery blue dream clones.


The mutant sour-d clone is perking up doing it’s weird three leaf thing. It’s nearly as stinky as it’s flowering mothers.
I’m pretty excited to see a princess 75, up close.
Tempted to keep a clone of the void or a male.
I’ve decided to keep male varietals pollen on ice going forward.

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Hi again. Another update.
I believe we are in week seven here and getting a bit flopsy

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I have to apologize for my neglect as of late and the disorganisation of my thread.
These last two years have been rough but I’m committing myself to bigger better more organized grows for 2019, and hope to actually have something (triumphs and mistakes) people can learn from.
I hope to wrap this grow up, soon and start from scratch with some good old fashioned seed chucking.
Here’s some bud porn for listening to me ramble.
Blue dream dark heart nursery @7 weeks. EDIT 6 weeks.


Sour d from dark heart nursery
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No need to apologize for having a life to deal with. :thumbsup:

However, if you come to CA again without smoking my shit I’ll be upset. :smile:

:evergreen_tree:

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LMFAO I’ll have some to swap when I come through.

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Got tired of waiting. These were showing sex for several weeks before I started 12/12 and the trichomes though having no amber were near 99 % milky. The samples I snitched last week and even the week before were already head and tails above the best local dispensary stuff.

I’m thinking 8 to nine weeks 12/12 and a bit early.
With no cure and quick dry on the cob fan vents.
The blue dream is exhilarating and then crashes into painless couchlock/naptime. Its flavors like citrus and smells like windex berry restroom airfreshner.


The sour is simply sublime and drives me hard, during yard work like a dead true diesel.
It tastes like a salty blended scotch with a heavy sulphur matchstick/pine and coffee scent.

Can’t wait try see what Terps yield with a nice 3 month jar cure.
I have an ( so far unremarkable) Male 91chem12
Two female greenpoint dynamite diesel, two female 91 chem 12, a clone only blue dream and clone only sour diesel. all in que for a 5x3 seed party.
Current temps are 69°f at 55 rh day 2 in dry/cure.

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The two on the right are 91chem12 females with the back one showing variation
On the left are two dynamite diesel females the bottom one showing its taller lineage.
Middle bottom is a 2nd gen clone of dark heart nursery sour-d.
And below that is our 91chem12 Male, who’s key responsibility is giving up that chem 91 pedigree Y chromosome for a look into what these babies can do.
I’ll be giving my first try at pollen collection and storage with this run.

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I have some aging inventory I’d would be happy to contribute to an overgrow breeding project.

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The California Cannon is the 1st one I’d go after :blush: just reading the labels.

:v:

:evergreen_tree:

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