I had to shut down for a season, and gave my two clones away to a friend, and now I am vegetating the mothers(Dieselwreck Haze by Rare Dankness, best mother out of 8 females, and the Amnesia Core cut) again to get some clones to start with.
I planted some seeds to make things much faster, but unfortunately very many of them(90%) did not sprout because I stored them in a closet for 5 or six years, I guess. Among 10 BOGs Sour Strawberry, 100 SSSDH by Rezervoir, NONE came up. Surprisingly, these freebie seeds, ‘Old Congo’ from Tropical Seeds Co. ALL sprouted. All of the Sour P seeds by Resin Seeds also Sprouted. Within the last three weeks, I kept watering, and some seeds kept coming up from Mr. Nice including The Cure, Dreamtime, Walkabout, and Skunk Haze. They were big generous packs(20+), and I did not get very many to sprout.
I put down 50(Amnesia Core cut X Guatamalen Landrace). I did not breed it, and the guy only selected from a few males. However, he said he got good results from planting some of them. I am wondering if it is worth looking for a good male from them, and crossing it with the Amnesia core cut again, or if I should first make f2? I am very new to seed creation.
I want to document a little so that I could share what the DNA is looking like, and maybe get some advice from somebody if they see something I should definitely be doing differently.
I’ll be using those little coir peat pellets that swell up when you add water for germinating the seeds, then transferring to coco fiber, then to NFT. I’ll also be later using rockwool. I start using Tneons for very small ones, moved to LED for veg, and moved to HPS and LED for blooming.