I’m counting the days until 21 in the flower tent, going to do the defoliation on the gentler side at Day 20, wait a few for the plants to get over the stress, then hit them with some pollen on the lower branches on Day 23 or 24. The plan is to try the bag method for paintbrush pollination, probably one or two branches on each of the five plants, I might not pollinate the smaller LDSC since I don’t love its structure and growth compared to its sister.
The hardest part will be choosing matchups of pollen and plant since I don’t want to commit to too much work, I have six pollens and five plants, even leaving out the LDSC that’s 24 bagged branches and that sounds like hell to me! More likely it will be two branches per plant for eight total chucks, that should be plenty for a first attempt.
Much thanks to everyone in the seed making threads here on OG, I found this thread especially helpful for tips and tricks and experience from other users who have been at this for a while, special recognition for @Budderton @JohnnyPotseed @GrouchyOldMan @SamwellBB @ReikoX @vernal @Cormoran and many others for their posts and responses on this post or the others that helped me figure out a plan.
I will be working with pollen from @Radicle_Reefer ’s outdoor grow last year, we did a nice swap and he sent me some tasty magic dust for the ladies here to be seeded with, I received all of these to work with except Garlic Dog since that one didn’t give much pollen.
I saw him say in another thread that the 88G13HP was an OP of three males onto a female so I believe that one is a mix of males, and the others are single male pollens but RR feel free to correct me here.
The receiving female plants are:
Any suggestions on combinations? I’m open to ideas from my readers here on the thread, what pollen/plant hybrids sound good or is maybe like a strain you know and love or miss and want to try growing chucks of something like it?