I thought it was the pudding lol
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Judging from what I was able to harvest with a beating over glass right at the end, I’d estimate that this jar would be full to the brim if I had collected all the pollen over flowering from this one Vortex male. That is insane:
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Wow! He looks awesome. What are your expectations for the offspring? Maybe the next Big Bud (with potency 
)?
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It is most certainly a qualitative, subjective, anecdotal, superstitious, blindfolded game of darts if there ever was one. I suppose that qualifies as art for most, religion for some. This may sound a little “guru-ish” and/or corny as fuck, but when you spend most of your available time nose deep in these plants, it becomes a “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” experience and I quickly know which dude is rocking mad swagger and who’s getting culled. You already know when you look at a plant that expresses every indicator of robust health on max volume. That’s what I tend to look for anyway.
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His crosses have been in testing for a bit. The elusive pheno seems to have the OG dog’s tongue leaves on the flowers. His lineage is Grape Stomper x Joseph OG, so gassy grape with a kick
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Let the bees pick him the flower they like the best use him
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Hollow stocks stems
More hollow stocks are in fiber hemp but I don’t think it’s anything that would make it breed more potent plants
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Keep hearing the blue dream clone is great for anxiety nerves especially good for getting people off nerve pills just from hearing people talking about it
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Damn! Probably the densest male I’ve ever seen
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I don’t know what there is about it, but fifteen- twenty years of breeding the same strain, of which there were some steller plants but most were only mediocre, in one generation by using only the hollow stem males nearly all the offspring were great. Has to be something to it. I read that either plants grow to make stems or they grow to make buds or something to that effect. The strain was an old Afghani
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awesome post, and severely underliked! I never would have considered there being a greenhouse effect from hollow stems but it makes a lot of sense. On that note, I would expect to see more hollow stems in colder regions (i.e. european hemp) and thicker stems in hotter regions (the ME, the med, africa, india, just about all the drug producing countries), which seems to bear out with your other info. It may be better to breed stem hollowness based on the environment you’re going to be growing for production in.
However, knowing that pith autolysis is a deliberate mechanism plants employ to feed themselves, it stands to reason that a drug variety that experiences more autolysis during flowering is spending a lot of resources on reproductive structures and secondary metabolites (or it sucks at respiration, which I’m sure would cause other problems).
Breeding your plants to have solid stems during veg (and, consequently, during the hot summer) and hollower stems throughout flowering (in the cold winter where some greenhouse effect is welcome) could be a useful way to breed for potency
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