DAMN @oleskool830 you make me clean the screen again and lost half my coffee 
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Ah true that, and we are talking stem rubs not flower smell 
#9 sounds like It’d be the way to go then over #8. And if you already get a tall pheno it makes sense to keep the shorty as well and see what happens…
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Looks like you had a nice trip. Getting away and experiencing nature is good medicine for the soul.
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Lmao! You forgot hookers. 
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lol @oleskool830 haha! and thanks @PlantShepherd for the reminder about hookers 'n blow. I had a roomy into that shit…
@minitiger completely agree about keeping it local, and about mouth coating chems! How’d that Clusterfunk turn out in terms of potency & effects? I’ve been wanting to run that for a bit, got a pack from a buddy, and I think bodhi just re-released stock of it?
When we got back from the camping trip, it was day 21F in the tent. Everything survived the week away AOK, and the males in the vase had started dumping. All of them had opened about 1/4 - 1/3 of their flowers.
Thankfully they hadn’t really blasted the tent yet. I put them out of the direct path of the fan specifically so the earliest male couldn’t dominate the tent with his pollen. This is important if you want to get a good representation of all males in a preservation project.
The females were looking bushy and robust, and I think stretch was just about over. Pheno #s 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 from left to right.
When making seeds from modern hybrids, especially to share, I like to wait until week 4 from flip to get maximum pollination. This ensures there’s a lot of babymakers. If you don’t wait, sometimes you only get a small number of seeds.
Luckily when we came back, there was only a tiny bit of pollination, so I took the males and shook them overtop the ladies one by one.
There was already some frost developing.
I left the males in there for the next week and shook them in front of the fan many times to ensure good pollination. I try to give them a solid week, but not much longer because you want big, mature seeds, and if you leave the males around for much longer, you’ll overpollinate and get a lot of tiny deformed “aborts” and greenies that won’t ever ripen.
Let’s hope the pollen was good and that there’s a strong representation of all five males in all the females.
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Wait, so you decided to use all of the males then?
The Clusterfunk turned out really good. The high surprised me, just because I was thinking it’d be more on the lethargic side, but it was actually a really electric, thought-provoking, skin-tingling high. After about an hour, it’d mellow out, like most weed does, but it definitely wasn’t a couch lock, sleepy high at all.
I bought a little fridge last week, just because my seed collection was starting to take over the fruit drawer in the fridge in our kitchen and as I was transferring the seeds into the new fridge, I was pleasantly surprised to find six seeds of the Clusterfunk in there. Glad I have them for sure. Definitely worth a second run.
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Sorry, late to the party. Problem is, something like this catches my interest, and I have to go through the whole thread. My wife, Mrs Badger, thinks I love y’all more than her. 
Awesome seeing some of the breeding/ selection stuff for sure that I haven’t gotten into much before.
@nube Damn kind of you to do this. I’ve been looking into some of the dyi strip builds, cuz I’m a diy’er myself. Some day when I get a place, maybe I can get in on one of these runs. Thanks so much for doing this.
@TheShowMeHomie don’t get into Oklahoma. It really gets deep then!!
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Hey @nube that looks like some insanely beautiful camping and hiking you did. Ive always wanted to make it out to the rockies and will someday for sure. Im glad you got a nice getaway and got to enjoy some nature time. Being outside without human created things surely sets my mind at ease… Personally for select breedings i would use #3 because of his short nature and sac structure, not that i have much experience in breeding/selections, just getting started on that…
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@lefthandseeds lol one of the greatest movies of all time right there.
Yeah @minitiger, this round’s an open pollination run. I was asking about male preference to do a second round of F2 with selected males/females. Thanks for the smoke report on Clusterfunk. It’s also not what I was expecting, but it sounds great!
@Badger Thanks for stopping by. DIY4LYFE! 
Overgrow the planet, my friend. Let me know if you want some input when you get ready to build a light.
@Stickyjones Amen about getting back to nature. You gotta make it out here sooner rather than later. I gotta have either mountains or warm ocean or both. This’ll do…for now. 
I hear you about a possible #3 male x #1 female to maybe isolate that mini magic they both seem to have. 
Back to the grow, here’s what the clones looked like after rooting and potting.
That was on potting day, with temps around 92F in the house. Pura Vida are the cuts around the edges of the tote. A few of them are from cuts taken in flower because the ones taken in veg died in the heat. The four clones in the tiny tupperware in the bottom of the pic are Triangle Kush x Iraqi. They survived but they’re beat up from the heat.
Somehow, the flowering plants at day 28F looked great, even though temps are routinely at or above 95F in the tent. Just gotta keep them watered. Phenos # 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 from left to right.
Here’s pheno #1. She’s grabbing my attention.
And a handheld macro taken with my 15 year old DSLR instead of my phone. My good friend @lukio from another forum sent me extension tubes to make macros easier. All the way from the 
! What a generous guy.
Pheno #2:
Pheno #4:
Pheno #7:
And a handheld macro of #7 as well:
Also really cool about #7 is that she is expressing variegation on a few leaves! Haven’t seen this on any plants in a few cycles 
With all those plump calyxes in the pics above, you think the pollination was successful? 
I left the dudes in there for a week, and here’s a bit of what I cleaned up. Felt like a porn store clerk.
Gave the whole tent a thorough vacuuming (HEPA filter), and all the equipment a good spray and wipe down while unplugged. A few male flowers got stuck on the ladies, but I sprayed them down pretty good to make the pollen inert.
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I agree. That’s is why you will find me under the hood, fixing my own vehicle. I can’t bring myself to pay the price. I know care is taken if I do it as well. Thanks for the offer, I will remember that.
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I had something that looked like what you are calling
variegation. I thought it was light burn or heat stress. Lol
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This is kind of… Xhamster for plants!! 
Cheers
G
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Plants look great friend. Great job.
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This update is from the end of week 5, day 35F. Everything’s on cruise control. 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 from left to right:
I defoliated the upper and inner canopy just a little, not too much in case any of them require a reveg. Made for a few days of extra tasty smoothies. 
Also, since it’s my first time running the strain and I run water-only organics the whole way, I don’t know how hungry they are and I like to leave some reserves.
Notes on each from day 35:
Pheno #1 is short and stacked. Smells like lemonade and something creamy and sweet on the sugar leaf rub. Short trichs but lots. Buds smell cat pissy when you sniff them.
Pheno #2 is the 2nd tallest but slightly thicker looking than #4. Extra frosty and longer trichs than #1. Stinky overripe citrus on sugar leaf rub, but sniffing a bud is like a bag of tropical fruit and overripe melons.
Pheno #4 is the tallest, lanky and getting her sway on, but has a good OG look to the nugs. Similar smells as #2 but more sour than sweet on a sugar leaf rub. Sniffing the buds evokes memories of strawberry papaya and lime in Hawaii.
Pheno #7 is like a hybrid between the shorty #1 and the taller #2 and #4. She’s shorter than the tall girls, but has more space between the nugs than #1. Extra sour pink grapefruit STINK from rubbing a sugar leaf. Has a sorta stale rose wine smell to the undisturbed buds.
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Everything looks fantastic!
I think #2 and #7 are my favorites from your description, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder right? ^^
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Grapefruit funk #7 sounds delicious. Great job! Really beautiful plants.
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Awesome of yall to throw this together. I look forward to working some magic with em
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They look amazing!! Wish I was going to kick back and burn a hooter of that stuff with you
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OK we’re finally caught up. Here’s the latest pics from last Friday, day 42F. Starting the same as always with a pic of all phenos 1-2-4-7 from left to right.
Weather outside went from really hot and dry to cooler and rainy in the last week or two. Monsoon season here in the West. So instead of the extremes happening during the day, with 100 degrees in the tent and low humidity, we’re now experiencing issues at night with lows around 60F and humidity between 75-85%. Nothing I can do, so we’re gonna let it ride.
Frost is happening. Shorty pheno #1 first:
Pheno #2
Pheno #4 leaf frost looking decent in this handheld macro
Pheno #7
Gotta find my tripod somewhere so I can tighten up these macros a bit.
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