My goodness.
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Yeeehaw.
About 220 of them. I give them 3 weeks and start kicking them off the freedom train by the dozens 
Aiming for 50 or less. Ideally 30.
Same with cheese.
Its looking like im popping c99bx1 or c99 x orange next.
Then im set for keepers and ill start dialing and tossing keepers.
Then i share cuts and retire
Lol
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I love C99. The Pineapple pheno was a favorite. Brings back memories.
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C99 can be very good.
Theres a strange correlation between chocolate and catpiss im seeing and somehow pineapple c99 fits in there.
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Someone on another site just stuck some C99 seeds in the mail for me.
They are from a reproduction run.
Very excited.
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Do you happen to know from which/whos stock?
Mine are from mosca c99bx1.
I ran the kepeer from the original pop in vert 5lights 4 trees setup and yeild wasnt there at all. But smoke was legit
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Brothers Grimm
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I had Mosca also. Still have seeds I made about 20 years ago. Doubt they hatch.
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“Pop them if you got them” is what I say. Theres stuff i dont even like that i refresh for old times sake. Part of the hobby i guess hah
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I designed an entire hydroponic system so I don’t have to water even ONE plant by hand. I admire your ambition and insanity passion to take on these projects! 
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70 non-trash plants out of 700 sounds a little optimistic. I guess it also depends on what is considered trash. If looking for absolute keepers I’d expect you’d keep MAYBE 5 if all 700 are from the same stock. If not just a top 3.
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Sooooo…
I accidentally pollinated the whole neighborhood with melon hp pollen. Originally intended to only hit the melon and skunk. Also means the plants i had already pollinated are contaminated and the seeds basically unusable in a breeding program.
Melon hp crosses. Check.
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That’s a bummer about the contaminated seed run. I figure that would be why I could never run a breeding program. I will have the lot open pollinated every time.
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I mostly go the rack route with lines ive already grown and bulked. Consider this a pre screening where i pull a certain phenotype im interested in from the bulk.
Usually ill keep between 5% and 10% depending on numbers and do a seed run with wanted type. Call it base stock. Then i grow out the f2s and look for outliers/keepers/extremes. Then i trial those under hps and outdoors.
With the lifesavers for exemple, i bulked one pack then grew 300 f2s. From the f2s i kept a dozen “tropical” plants from the bulk of mostly grapes or lemons. I grew those the following year outdoors and kept one plant i call melon lifesaver. Since im bad at keeping cuts long term, i either outcross to another cut or make s1.
In this case a g13hp cut. All this to have a potential parent for a melon hp x skunk line, which will itself go through this process.
Same with skunks, ssk, and a bunch of others.
Rolling thunder.
Im happy with a keeper here and there 
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When you grew out the 300 some odd lifesavers how typical was the tropical type smell on them and did it swing the other directions also to a like a pungent rotten fruit smell?
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Around 10% of f2s were what i call tropical, a few blueberries and a few lemon with an attitude, which i assume is from the jacks cleaner side.
A lot of candied fruits throughout with grape being very dominant but nothing in the way of rotten fruit.
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A few things are happening…
The number of skunks i popped without finding much in the way of progress toward an ideal is beyond probability. I can only look inward and admit that i cant grow for shit.
The smell at 6-10 nodes from the few that turned into skunk on a previous run is etched in my mind, and while some had that early on this round, clearly i can not satisfy their needs by winging it.
I need a ph meter and i need proper nutrients for one. Locally, to my despair, it seems like it would be easier to source a 2 headed woman than it is finding high quality nutrients.
Secondo, i think im flipping too early or flipping before plants have time to build some momentum. On the good run, i vegged for 2 months or so, topping and bushing them out etc.
As frustrating as it is, i seem to lack a fundamental understanding of plant processes and chemistry. Like a lot of things the solution is most likely very simple, or at least once the solution is known it is but evident, for i had bummy nutrients and still produced nobility - by accident mind you…
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Now you going to smoke a hitter of each one after it’s all said and done?
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Of course!
Normally I’d vet each plant seedless, test smoke as soon as its dry, again at 1 month cure, once more at 3 months after I harvest the incross to gage shelf life.
All the lines im using this round are already inbred at least 2 gens. Given my familiarity with the lines, the f1s should be somewhat predictable so i went ahead and skipped a couple steps hah.
Im speed running breeding 
Theres a possibility i get lucky and all works fine, or, my selection could miss the mark completely and in that case i just start over and we’ll get to learn something and laugh about my ordeal in a few months lol
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