Congratulations! It’s such a cool thing to see. I feel like a mad scientist but it was truly easy with the guidance from @LoveDaAutos and Overgrow. I can’t wait to make seeds of everything!
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Autoflower update…
White Creme C - Planted 59 days ago and I applied STS with a Q-Tip to all the nodes on the 2 lowest branches. The male flowers are pretty developed now and I am waiting for the first to open so I can start collecting pollen and dusting other parts of the plant to make some seeds.
Girl Scout Monkeys - Planted 72 days ago. This one was supposed to get crossed with White Creme but the first white creme seed (B) was a dud and I had to start another. Now that this one is so far along I am a little worried it’s too late to make seeds with it. However, the lowest branches still look pretty undeveloped in the bud department so I will probably just apply white creme pollen to those lower two branches. As I understand it, I will need 4 weeks after applying pollen to let the seeds mature. Most likely I will harvest the top portion of the plant and leave the bottom branches. I haven’t ever done a partial harvest, so we will see how that goes. Hoping to have enough pollen to save some for a future cross or more white creme seeds.
Blood Orange Haze - This one has been shrimpy since the start and it’s still tiny. However, the buds are looking tasty. The top cola is looking done without magnification but some of the others are still looking a bit underdeveloped. I put this seed in soil 95 days ago so I could probably harvest at any time.
Double Grape - Been on the dry rack about 9 days. It’s pretty small so it will likely be dry today or very soon while I let the bigger plants go 12-15 days lately. I am all about quality over quantity (says the guy who just can’t grow big autos), so hoping this lil plant provides some heavy effects following a tasty grape soda flavor. I will post some Double Grape photos once I get a chance to trim it up. I will bust out the SLR and see what I can come up with.
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Soaked some new autoflower seeds and placed in paper towel this morning. I want more strawberry crinkle seeds and apparently Mephisto is not going to offer them as I been waiting since they first sold out.
Presenting my next mephisto run with a side of night owl
ILLUMINAUTO #58 - FUNKY MANGIFERA (Mango Smile x Livers Bx1)
Chose this one because I haven’t seen anyone else post about it. People seem to love both of these strains so I thought I would give it a shot.
Meph Freebie (Strawberry nuggets x livers bx1)
I wanted to run a freebie and I loved the strawberry crinkle so… MORE STRAWBERRY. I can’t seem to find skunky strains so I will keep playing the fruity game. I need the funk tho!
ILLUMINAUTO #55 - STRAWBERRY CRINKLE (Strawberry Nuggets x Grape Crinkle)
Growing this again because I want to hit it with STS. According to reddit there were some issues with this strain and hear that people been finding males. Mephisto removed the buy button shortly after release and I haven’t seen it back since. I really like the strain, after a cure in the jar it smells like strawberries and beer.
Karmic Connection - (Chem City blues x chemdogging x Cosmic Queen)
Chose this one because I wanted to include at least one Night Owl and this one isn’t even listed on most strain databases, nor can I find it on anything official or online seedbanks. I have 3 seeds, so if I love it maybe I can try making more.
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On the Double Grape… sounds like a good opportunity to try fridge dry and cure. LDA turned me onto it my last harvest. For smaller amounts it worked for me. Toss into a brown lunch bag, close it up, turn it every day for a week or two, then to jars. Pre trimmed…
Might as well stagger the harvest. See if she has enough life to finish the few seeds. At least you, and more importantly… me… will know! 
I had shit for luck on the Mango Smile. First plant was fine and very nice flowers. Any bean after that was shit… @LoveDaAutos had a similar experience. May have been that release tho, was awhile ago.
Your kicking ass… keep it up. That BOH looks awesome.
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Blood Orange Haze at harvest time.
Below are some dried Double Grape nugs. She was small overall, got one jar of nugs off her, a bit disappointing but I am sure it’s my fault. Time for a cure.
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It all looks good!
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Or better yet, start ur “stud” 2 weeks before the rest then start treatments at 3 weeks so by the 6-7 week pollen is starting to fly when the others are in their prime at 4-5 week and should give a solid 6 weeks for seed development
Generally u would start treatments the day u flip to flower so with autos were just guessing when they are flipping on their own usually around the 3-3.5 week mark
This is what I learned woulda been ideal on my last run
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Creme de la chem never disappoints! Hope u didn’t buy that pack when I got a fuck ton of crosses from it doing my last run
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No it was a trade haha.
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Nice score bud! Def my fav of mephisto! Chunky every damn time
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Update… these male pollen sack are kinda starting to open but I am not seeing any pollen yet. The plant I was gona cross with this is getting so far a long I am not sure my original plans are gona stand. Maybe I can still self it but its female flowers also look real far along.
Maybe I should just try to collect this pollen and start some new seeds to pollinate.
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Well… These pollen sacks seem to have no pollen in them. I understand forcing pollen sacks can result in much less pollen, but I. Seeing no pollen at all. I even took two open flowers off and crushed them and zero pollen on my fingers.
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Echoes my result… i chopped my dry pollen donor yesterday and into the firepit.
Not giving up though, i’ll adjust timing and possibly ratio and give it another shot.
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Ok I guess I need to harvest GSM since it’s not gona get pollen at this point and if it did there is no time for it to make seeds. I put the seed in soil 92 days ago. It smells amazing!
The White Creme that I gave STS has a freaking ton of male flowers but I have yet to see ANY POLLEN at all. I put the seed in soil 79 days ago and gave it the first treatment of STS 46 days ago. Should I bother trying to get pollen out of these two branches to store for the next run? Any tips? Is it possible i have absolutely no pollen despite two branches busting with male flowers?
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I’ve never done a reversal but have read and scoured a lot of journals. Reversals can have a tendency to produce pollen sacs with little to no pollen. So if not doing an open pollination collect the pollen sacs in a jar before they open so they dry and open in the jar or on a plate whatever. That way you have as much pollen as possible collected and not lost on the plant itself. THIS IS WHAT IVE COME TO UNDERSTAND FROM READING I haven’t done this myself so please if I’m wrong correct me!
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You’re spot on noob. I would also add, in general, some cultivars are just a bitch to reverse! Like you experienced, the plant will produce plenty of male flowers but no visible or significant pollen. Always best to try to reverse at least 3 of the strain you’d like to make seeds from ideally. Just to increase your success rate
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