Giveaway winners and a couple trades are going out tomorrow
If anyone has interesting genetics and would like to trade for Purple Candy Cake/ Sweet Dreams F2/ Afghani Special F2 please reach out! Iām always happy to trade and diversify the seed collection.
P.s: Iām trying to get Purple Candy Cake growing on every continent so far itās been grown in NA, EU, AFR, and seeds going to SA (Brazil) in this batch. If you are from AUS or Asia Iād extra love to do a trade with you
Indeedā¦ the Shishkaberry Revival project is in high gear over here.
I will be doing a call out for those who might want to contribute thier Shishkaberry genetics to the larger pool but Iām not there yet.
I am doing a seed increase on a pack of Shishkaberry 3f2 made in 2015 and released by Ustad Seeds via Hemp Depot canada. @PineTarBastard sent me these seeds to do a seed increase and they are in the first week of flower right now.
Behind those I have been popping batches of 10 seeds of the cross I made in 2017 with a 1998 release Spice of Life Shishkaberry female and an Ustad Shishka3f2 male that was from seeds I bought from hemp depot in 2016. The 1998 Spice of Life female was one of 2 plants that made it from a vial of old original F1 Shishkaberry.
So right now I am floweirng the Shishka3f2 for an open pollination seed increase with 3 females, 2 males and one undecided.
The 2017 seeds I popped 10 a couple weeks behind the one in flower and then another 10 a few weeks after those. I am using selection on these plants and will be culling the āLess Than Idealā plants as I go. These will be cloned, then flowered to test for any keepers for the future breeding steps. I have 26 seeds of the 2017 batch to pop still so lots more to hunt thru.
I will be recombining the best plants with DJās 90ās Blues which I am also pheno hunting with seeds Josh Blue of Blue Star sent me recently.
Fun timesā¦ but yes, I am a huge Shishkaberry fan and working towards bringing the qualities of that line back again and into the mainstream is and has been my goal for 7 years now
Wow @SHSC-1 Amazing work you are doing for the plant. I will be following along your journey. If you ever need help in any regard, whether that be a seed making round or small hunt or anything please let me know and ill be happy to help if at all possible.
The goal is to spread these genetics to every garden that wants them once the seeds are done. Fellow breeders and growers are all welcome to jump on the Shishkaberry train hehehe.
I will never release a pure shishkaberry line to the seedbanks but I do want to revive these genetics the best I can. After my accident years ago Shishkaberry became an integral part of my medicinal needs while I learned how to walk again and this is why I am trying so hard to bring those genetics back.
You are in it for the right reasons my friend Not for the money but to spread the healing plant. That is fantastic to hear.
I have a similar experience with cannabis and Crohnās, but unlike you, have not found a particular strain that helps the most. Maybe shiskaberry is the one
Cheers @SHSC-1 I wish you the best of luck with everything, shiskaberry wise and personally. sending positivity and good energy your way
Great place to get robbed too and instagram loves it. They allow black hat operators to run wild while censoring free speech. Insta is bad news in my exp.
Yup, youāve got that right. Iāve got a small group of solid supporters and grow buddies on IG, have met some great people but you have to sift through a lot of bullshit to find the real ones. Here on OG it is the opposite, iām sure there are some shady people here but you almost have to go looking for them.
I canāt deal with instagramā¦ itās just too much.
I had an account for a bit but Iām not a smart phone/tablet kinda guy and i donāt use those devices online much. I need to hire my 20 year old nephew to run social media accounts like that for me LOL maybe I might try it again but for now itās OG and z-labs. Itās where all my online weed friends hang out.
yes it is. Itās s small group there but everyone is solid.
I donāt post a whole lot these days but I do like to keep up with what everyone has going on.
There was a larger group a few years ago but many have left and prefer instagram. Still, itās a nice quiet corner of the weed community and I have met some really cool people thru hanging out there. Many of them are here as well.
Any of you guys ever see a male Hermie? the father plant was found back in December or so and held as a clone since. (Re-cloned once or twice) The father plant was showing full male preflowers before it got cloned and culled. The clones have been through the ringer, root bound, dried out too much, deficiency, low light conditions, the whole nine yards.
I now have the space to actually up-pot the clones out of solo cups into some bigger shoes with better soil. The male in question āRomulanā is an important plant for future breeding, becuase it was the only male found. I planned to F2 with a beautiful female specimen.
Now to the Hermie situation: about a week or two ago the lights went out for a couple days, making some of the clones start to flowerā¦ the Romulan male is full male flowers all the way up to the growing tip, where it has started putting out pistils.
Have you guys ever bred with a male showing these characteristics? What could I expect to come of it? It seems to be heavily heavily stress induced. Could this trait be passed over to females in the F2 generation? Is it even worth working with that plant?
Iāve seen a fair amount of debate on this. Some think itās good, and will influence the line to be more female-heavy; fairly sure DJ Short is in that camp. Others think any hermie will pass on those herm traits to the next generation and beyond. I have no idea myself, though I did notice that the Blueberry cut I have has a tendency to herm on a hair-trigger when stressedā¦ of course, Iām not even sure itās from DJ originally, and if it is itās a feminized Seedsman repro. Could be their technique too, or just luck of the draw and human tendency to find patterns in randomness.
As far as I know, we still have no idea what causes hermies scientifically speaking, so I doubt itās a question you can really get answered with any degree of certainty. IMHO, flip a coin, itās as likely to be right as a well-reasoned and researched decision.
Very interesting, I knew there was something like this about male herms but wasnāt sure if I was mixing it up with the phenomenon of males found in feminized seed.
If that is the case then I suppose it doesnāt hurt to try it out and then test the seeds, see what comes of it.
I would assume, that this kind of male herm would at least influence the males in the next generation to also be more herm prone, but itās interesting that it may not have an effect on the females, and may even be beneficial for m/f ratios.
Amazing work you are doing for the plant. I will be following along your journey. If you ever need help in any regard, whether that be a seed making round or small hunt or anything please let me know and ill be happy to help if at all possible. 
