Chat room (let's chat!) 💬 (Part 3)

[Abbbian]

Hi @Mithridate

“by the most badass males I find. ”

Do you usually choose the males because of vigor, rapid spur of growth, resilience, nice scent!? Something along those lines!? Thanks!

[chronix]

I have seen lots of those wood boring beetles around my area.
I had a ton of them in my yard last year. Some made there way inside and my cats had alot of fun with them.

[Mithridate]

Let me start by saying that there are many schools of thoughts about male selection…

But I’m a simple guy y’know

The human brain is a pattern recognition machine and is also embedded with the process of elimination logic to find answers.

Why not use those first

Of course, if you only have 2 males, I’d suggest the Tom hill method. “Just cross the damn plants” and evaluate progeny.

In the case of too many males to choose from (10,20 or more)… in an ideal world you’d test them all, since the only parameter to evaluate a male is by what he passes on to its progeny.
Who got time for that?
I start by eliminating males with negative traits ie hermies, genetic defects. Then pattern recognition kicks in. By watching the females I try to associate each male to a pheno and go from there. There are also the males that don’t fit in the gang, he looks different or whatever, unique. That’s one to try.

I personally try to not be too ruthless in my male selection. Out of 20, I’d keep 5-6 and will give a chance to ugly ducklings as I don’t care about structure and yield.

A champ is a champ and I’ll adapt my grow style to fit the plant, not force the plant to fit a style…

Then I’d suggest small batch breeding(to cover lots of terrain/be efficient). Aka pollinate a branch from each female with a different male and grow however many you can from each mating.

[Abbbian]

@Mithridate

Aka pollinate a branch from each female with a different male and grow however many you can

So one could have 4 to 5 different males to pollinate 4 to 5 branches of a single plant!! Awesome! Intriguing as heck!! Thanks for the lesson!!

[mainerJ]

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[Mithridate]

Our good friend @Budderton has a nice tutorial about pollen collection/small batch breeding

How I make small batches of seeds without screwing up my sensi( too much)

Hey. Here I plan to show how I use homemade papper bags to isolate and collect pollen from donors and use that pollen to make small batches of seed, in the same space I flower my sensi. Than you Mel Frank! I collect from clones grown in one gallon pots. When the flowers start to form I trim the lower half off to help focus on flower development and it makes it easier to bag. When most mature flower is close to opening, it’s time to bag. [20220109_094949] Time to bag… [20220109_095025…

I prefer to bag a flowering male individual branches and then put the same bag(s) on one branch per female, then do a 2nd male and bag a 2nd branch from each female.

Ps: anytime Abbbian

[Pigeonman]

Thanks so much @mainerJ !

[mainerJ]

you are welcome MR Pigeonman Maelstrom of Wonders. good handle had to look that one up. cool good one! can i add one in my profile for myself or how does that work?

[Pigeonman]

I think that’s a contributor’s perk. Look up the about OG info thread.

[DougDawson]

@Pigeonman is 100% correct. Become a supporter and you can add your own custom tag.

[mainerJ]

you folks are great thanks for showing me how. i am gonna head towards the pillow and hope the maelstrom and the for ever member of the month spirits make me dream up a good user title. been wanting to be a supported since joining, because this place is the best there is.

[ShiskaberrySavior]

I call them spruce Beatles and yes they bite.

[Floyd]

Anybody no what kind of tree this is. With these weird things in it.

The tree was covered with small white flowers for a short time in May.

[Foreigner]

I think it’s a mold-a-penõ

[Floyd]

Trees been there since we moved in and this is the first time Ive seen these things.
Thats over 10 years.

[Bizzaro]

Thats Albinius Scroticus

[Greenfingers]

Translation, shriveled scrotum

[Floyd]

Hairless?

[lophophora.ca]

@Floyd

first time Ive seen these things.

Try one in the name of science!

Looking forward to the smoke report

[Floyd]

Huuuuuuum, yeah no.