Ughh… I’ve always dreaded the idea of making one these because of paranoia and the vulnerability of showing my mistakes. But OG made me appreciate these as I’d read other journals and built some online friendships. So here goes nothing…
First thing first, my style of growing has changed several times over the years. Currently, I prefer to grow many smaller, untrained plants to “phenohunt”. From there you’ll typically see me reveg both males and females, take clones, and either make seeds with the selections (eventually) or just rave about their redeeming qualities; or both. I’ve always sucked at taking clones, and although I maximize my space, I’d much rather only put forth effort on plants I deem as “keepers”, opposed to cloning everything first then culling the non-keepers. Any advice on how to maximize space, yields, or improve my setup in general without sacrificing the amount of seeds I germinate, is welcomed.
Next useless detail is: I typically pop seeds once a month; although that’s negligible anymore, because longer flowering times throws off the next batch of seeds. What’s probably worth mentioning is that I will keep males with the intent of filial breeding every other round of seeds.
Now…
Lets talk about the plants currently in the stables without backtracking too much.
First we have Katsu/Pre-98 Bubba x 1979 Christmas Tree Bud bred by Respect Genetics. Respect does those freebies you get with your JBC.com orders. Good guy. We’ve spoken a few times on IG, and I was lucky enough to snag all of this years freebie selections from JBC. These were part of my “female-only” seed-pop, so if someone out there is collecting pollen from theirs – HMU! Here’s some pics of 2 of the 4 – First pics are from day 16 (after pistils) and the other two pics are more recent.
I had several herms from a completely separate line of anything I’m going to show you (or talk about) here… so those orange-tipped pistils make me extra nervous 
Moving on. Another good guy I met elsewhere and grabbed seeds from is Dino Party Chucks (aka Really Big Jesus Freak). If you dont know… I’ll let you look into him on your own. Always been a funny and cool guy with me. He had Bodhis original ASS (Appalachian superskunk) and selfed them [for freebies]. A close friend of mine who knows the deal, bought his Fake Shake for me to grow (lineage wont make sense unless you follow RBJF). Here’s some pics. Don’t ask me how old they are because I’m too lazy to get up right now. But it’s definitely early-ish… as in less than 5wks 
Fake Shake… just 1
ASS s1s… stacking pretty nicely (these were topped a bunch)
Next up is Schwaggy Ps creation… '80s Black Afghani x Skunky Brewster. The Skunky Brewster originates from Strayfox by the way. If you find any old/hidden info on it, I’m all ears! This one is from a previous “I wanna make seeds” project; but I have not made any yet. Schwaggy used this male for most of his marketed stuff, but this cross was a freebie; and what can I say… I’m obsessed with oldschool afghanis. I’ve been vocal about this project elsewhere for a while. My screams (& pictures) must’ve reached Schwaggy because he recently sent me another pack to dig through, plus an '80s Afghani backcross pack, as well as a Skunky Brewster backcross pack… and one polyhybrid that I’ll probably just grow for its females.
These beauties are obviously revegging (2wks). The “purple one”, aka. #10 has a gassy smell, GREAT resin production, and a paranoia-inducing potent high that eventually mellows out. The other, aka #2, has the nicest Welches grape jelly smell on the front-end, gassy notes on the back-end, yielded better, finished (arguably) a week earlier, and at least has on-par resin production. No smoke test yet; wanna focus on the #10 before moving to the next.
The next reveg is Tony Greens Bubblehead. I only grew out 5 from my pack because these were meant to fill in holes that were made when I culled any herms. NONE of Tonys gear had intersex traits. This one being revegged was better in every way than its’ sisters. I never intended to keep it, but figured why not since I had it. I let majority of this harvest go to friends; and I haven’t asked anyone for reports yet because they’re smoking the sisters. My jar (the keeper) is still curing.
One of my current “for seeds” projects is brought to you via @Worcestershire_Farms , his Kashmir Azad stock; two packs that is, thanks to @minitiger giving me his. This one will play out over the next couple months. I potted all 21 that are left up a day ago, and separated the males that have OBVIOUS preflowers (9).
The main things to note here is that all of them look pretty damn uniform. Everyone says landraces prefer lighter feeds – but NOT these mfkrs. I could do a better job on feeding them but I’m scared to over-do it. I did however just give them a healthy dose of Alfalfa and Insect frass, so hopefully that satisfies them. One or more of the males fucking smells like weed; I haven’t cared to find out which one yet. The only other note to make is that one seems to be developing purple balls while the rest are green (so far).
It’s about that time I shut up. I have a Doc D “for seed” project coming soon (Purple Pakistani x Afkansastan/X18) but didn’t feel like taking pics of them in the solos. Probably just gonna pair the purple phenotypes with their purple counterparts, the greens with the green, then dig through the f2s at my discretion. Another project that may be coming… is some of Lucky Dog seeds Hunza Valley 91 f2s. Not sure what I’m gonna do with that one to be honest. Long story short, too few f2s came out of the pollination, and I popped what few I had because I THOUGHT the purple paki hybrids were gonna die off – boy was I wrong.
So unless I pull gold out of these I doubt I’ll be going to f3 until I buy more packs and start from scratch
Thought that would be an interesting
