Sorry, what I meant is a strain that is like 27% thc and 0 cbd will be more like to give anxiety than a strain that is say 15% cbd and 3% cbd. I don’t know what the threshholds are, meaning how much cbd to thc is needed, but you might try strains with a little more rather than a little less cbd in them. 
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I “micro” dose on new strains lol
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I’ve actually found that Sativa-dominant strains do more for me than Indica-dominant ones, as far as helping alleviate or even nullifying panic attacks. Most Indica-doms always have an initial “insta-rush,” followed by a relaxing stone. A lot of times, that initial rush really elevates my heart rate and can often induce a short-lived panic attack, until the high kind of “settles in.”
Whereas the majority of Sativa-doms usually have a slow-and-steady climb that takes 10 or 20 minutes to even really feel it. None of that,”Bam! I’m baked!” shit, which can make me feel uncomfortable a lot of the time. I’m sure you’re familiar with the whole creeper effect thing. I like those a lot better. By the time I realize I’m baked as shit, I’ve forgotten all about the fact that I ever even have panic attacks haha.
Absolutely. Me, too.
Anyway, @PlantShepherd and @Upstate I like the idea of running some African strains. Not that I ever sign up for these seed runs, but it’d be fun just to watch them grow. And I’m sure you know this, but there IS some Malawi in that Goldstar f4, although I realize that’s not what y’all are talking about. Still, just FYI, that Goldstar f4 was some of my favorite weed I’ve ever grown. Tried to get my last five or six seeds of it to pop a year or two ago. Sadly, none of them did.
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Yup thats why I will try new strains because they are all different and affect us differently.
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Does long flowering strains take as long to repro? Do the seeds take longer to mature, or would a 12-14 week sinsemilla flower, still be a 10ish-week seed reproduction?
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If you think of the flowering period as a series of stages; The first being stretch, then floral production, and finally with ripening.
Long flowering types will usually have “flushes” of pistils, and then as those start to mature, a new flush of pistils will come in. Rinse and repeat. Some lines will never stop throwing new flushes of pistils, and you just have to decide when you’re at the point of diminishing returns.
To bring it back to your question — if you pollinate during the stretch when there are still only preflowers, the nutrition needed to mature those seeds is so insignificant that you’ll get a normal flowering time.
If you pollinate anytime in the middle of the heavy flower production, the nutrient draw on the plant will probably be so high that they stop trying to produce new flushes of pistils, and you’ll have a shortened flower period.
You probably already know if the pollination is too late, the nutrient draw might be so high that some of the seeds never finish. No matter how long you let em go.
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Within the limited knowledge of my own few chucks, my concern is when the most amount of seeds are mature, and not when the flower has reached senescence, though those timelines may be the same on most occasions of a 9-10 week plant, if I start pollenating at 2-3 weeks. I believe I have recently seen the stages you are referring to on an SSH I recently chucked at, where it took pollen, pistils darkened up, then had a new wave of pistils forming around wk 7-8.I still took everything down at 70+ days, and the SSH looked like it wanted to be pollinated all over again. These just came down yesterday, so i have no idea what the seed yield will be from the plants that don’t look very done vs those that are probably a week late.
@PlantShepherd, I apologize for the wildly off-topic blog post.
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Well said. Very accurate according to my own experiences. Fully pollinated Double Panama went 15 weeks instead of 18-24. I pollinated when flowers were a bit bigger than pinky nail sized. Knocked a good bit off flower time.
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@PlantShepherd How did your NL5 finish up?
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Hey man! I’m shucking seeds now (like literally right now)! I didn’t do a great job with them, but there are seeds nonetheless! I’m terrible at smells, but I was surprised how stanky some were.
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Looks like there are plenty of viable seeds in that batch, though. Maybe a few not-so-viable, but still… Nice work.
All of y’all motherfuckers who signed up for these seeds, you better log that shit haha! I wanna see how the plants from these seeds turn out. Probably end up amazing… Love that NL5.
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This is a Freaker’s project so alas no sign in 
, anyway I’m glad for its success, great job done … 
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Really fantastic job on the NL#5.
Sadly, I have never smoked any, but I understand it’s some nice smoke. Congrats!
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Very nice! Love NL lines, I’ve never run BCSC’s but have run Peaks. They use old BCSC NL#5 with some Hemcy’s NL in there. Would love to try the original.
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Haha, yeah, I scrolled up to the first post just to see if this was one of those sign-up things (I follow a lot of threads, can’t keep track of them all). Didn’t look like one of those wikis or whatever. I’m still not clear on what the Freaker’s Ball Project things are haha…
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It’s a sort of “Preservation Club”, you have to do two seed runs a year to enter (one if sativa) and then you have access to all the seed runs done there. (Sorry if not right 
) The good notice is that if after giving those seeds to those members there are remnants, there will also be seeds for us mortals, cheers …
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Yeah, I’ll apologize ahead of time for that. I’ve been really sick the last six months and I wasn’t able to give them the care they deserved. There will be plenty to make sure the lineage is preserved.
I would love to see people grow these out. I’m not gonna lie, it makes me smile to see people grow out seeds I had a part of.
Thanks George! If I had my way I would distribute extras to people that participated in this thread. I will however leave it to the powers that be to decide where extras go. I didn’t get as many as I hoped for, but I think there will be more than just freakers seeds.
Thank you sir! Really appreciate all your efforts for the veteran’s giveaway. 
I haven’t seen Peak’s, but these varied a fair amount in phenos. Lots of nice variations in there for sure.
Thanks all! I knew it was a ton of work to do a preservation run, but this definitely gives me more respect for the people that have completed runs. 
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Thanks 
, wasn’t thinking on me 
, if I had my way I would give you this badge …
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You alright now? Hate to hear that.
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That was decided before the Freaker’s ever went public. It’s not a preservation run unless the seeds are distributed to people to grow. I decided at the outset the most efficient way to do that was to use methods that OG already had in place for distributing seeds, the Co-Ops being one of them.
I just sent @Sebring 180 10 packs of Snowhigh’s Dalat (80), and Double Panama Red (100) to go into the Fall Boxes. I haven’t posted the signup sheets for them yet because we’re having some work done on our house, and I just haven’t had a chance to get them done yet.
As far as this run, it looks like there will be plenty of seeds for the Co-Op, but I don’t know when @Sebring is planning to ship the boxes, so you may not get them until spring.
@PlantShepherd, just because a seed is pale, doesn’t mean it’s no good. If it’ll pass the crush test, it’s most likely viable. I think the seeds look great, and there’s a shitload of them. 
Excellent work on this run man. 
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