What’s up everybody! Before I begin I should start with a little backstory…
When I first began growing it was a constant race to knowledge, having a best friend/friendly competitor grower was huge in my growth. We would ALWAYS share what we learned but the classic “look what I can do” attitude and feeling of superiority was replaced with “look what I learned” and “look what I can show you” feeling of educating and being a teacher. Before long we had grown out strains from practically every last big amsterdam company and most newer US breeders. These included but are not limited to:
Black Russian, Exodus Cheese, CottonCandy, Blue OG, Crazy Miss Hyde, Green Love Potion, Ak47 variations, Critical +, Critical Jack, Dr. Grinspoon, Chocolate Heaven, Chocolope, Cannalope Haze, Goji OG, Tahoe OG, Jillybean, Cinderella99, Dairy Queen, Inca Gold, and probably a handful more.
Most were grown out in combined efforts so whenever we got freebies of the same batch we’d run them like a full pack and hunt. All of this was done outside naturally, the best way. The reason I bring this up is because I’ve experienced many different cultivars in my young age and have found myself a niche where I know which strains and terpene profiles I do and don’t like. I love a nice smooth velvety orange, cheesey skunk, or a chocolate nuttiness in much of my daytime smoke, and found that most of the strains I use to knock me out are either gassy, sharp and pungent, or smell like straight earth.
Last year I picked up pack #10/100 of Norstar’s Inca Gold (Tangie x Chelumbian). The genetics in that cross, to me, made my eyes light up. You got a nice orange skunk mom and a cheesy santa marta colombian dad. Through hunting I knew it was a hybrid that was quite stable for a cross with little variation besides the two main phenos.
The last male to show sex showed only a few days before the females. The interesting part of this is that he was the ONLY plant early in veg that smelled at all. Threw me a crazy strong funk and I knew right then I had to keep him. I cloned him and kept him veg cycle for the winter and put him outside this spring.
Fast forward a little and I now have hunted through potential moms for the Inca stud, including Agent Orange, Dairy Queen, Cuvée and my old Cindy from last year. My Agent Orange mom that I kept from that hunt, also has that same level of fragrance. A different profile for sure but at maybe week 2 of veg her stems reeked like creamy orange peel. And so the brainchild dubbed Ancient Orange was born. I also consulted Joel at Norstar about using Inca Gold with Agent Orange and he agreed with my idea and was super generous in egging me on to keep going with it. I’m glad we have breeders like Joel and @Subcool putting out amazing hybrids and don’t mind people using their genetics in their own journeys to become future breeders. I know Sub has said many times on the nerd, something a little like, “I don’t give a damn what you do with the seeds they’re yours eat em I don’t care” 
THE KEY IS FOR ALL US CHUCKERS IS TO GIVE CREDIT. Joel and Sub are the fathers of the two strains I am using to create my own cross. If it works out and I stabilize her I’m putting her right back out for others to use, that’s how we grow better cannabis. Breed for better traits, stabilize, release, repeat.
END STORYTIME AND RANT
I’ll be drying in a mason jar with a silica pack inside, once the pods are dry I’m mixing in previously warmed flour (let cool before mixing with pollen) at around a 5 to 1 ratio heavy on the flour. I plan on using the pollen in a month or two. I know it’s best to just throw on the fresh pollen but, like the title says, humble beginnings.
Still messing with some island sweet skunk dust from early 2000’s … But watch the cold jars… I was saving some south Florida black haze since middle school… Took it out of the freezer, opened it up, to thaw out while I smoked a joint…and came back to a lake of inviability 
… The condensation just murderd my future…I am an idiot… Don’t be me:droplet:
