Forget Mendel. Let’s beat this dead horse and see what happens.
Filling pots now. Join me this winter for the adventure.
If You have a freakshow hybrid please share it in this link
Pics will be added to tell the story.
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This is going to be one Massive adventure, 100+ freaks
Watching this to the end… 
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Good luck on the hunt Mr.
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Sounds like a fun run. I’m definitely following for this one. What do you use for your starter mix?
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been mixing soil since I made the post.
This grow has Promix, coir, verm, perlite, worm castings, espoma raised bed mix, coast of main bumper crop.
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Been in trim jail all day. Looks like its gonna be one more week before I have time to sow these beans. atleast I am almost there ready.
To further complicate this it is an auto flower cross. So I am hunting for two recessive genes.
I am direct sowing to give any auto freak the best chance.
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Goodluck with the project, I like your ambition of sowing 100 seeds to hunt through! Not something I see every day 
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That sounds like so much work. Good luck to you. I think the note taking and culling will be a significant task. I hate to cull plants. I usually put them outside to die instead lol. Sometimes the weather keeps them alive for months. Sometimes i even water them.
In any event i heard some breeders will use solo cups or 1/2 gallon bags to save space and substrate. Even still 100 plants is a big undertaking. I hope you find what you’re looking for. I’ll be stopping in to check in on your progress.
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100% brother! I still have two holding on.
@PsillyRabbit may the force be with you on this adventure 
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(Freakshow x Banana daddy ibl auto) x (Freakshow x Banana daddy ibl auto)
Dun it. Directly sowed 30 two gallon bags with 3 seeds in each bag. I put a white seed in the middle and darker seeds on top and bottom.
45 seeds from two differnt selected females.
I will cull/ re sow until I have at least two freaks in each bag. Minus a few bags for space. Run 20 hours until I know if they are autoflower.
Kill anything that is in a bag with an auto.
Move all photos to second tent.
In the second tent i have 30 quarts filled with F1s( same male freakshow) BX to Freakshow. 15 dark seeds 15 white seeds.This will be crossed with a photoperiod F2 to make a Fast flower freak line.
10 one gallons with the F1 BX to Banana daddy auto. one of these will be crossed with male auto freak just for the hell of it. (fingers crossed i have a male auto freak)
If yall dont mind waiting for the f3s or these F2s/ BXs are of interest I can make a contest based off of the grid they are planted.
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Almost two dozen seedlings. I dont think I see any freaks yet. Tomorrow I will soak* seeds to re- sow anything I can tell is normal.
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I’ve seen someone… I want to say @Kasper0909 ? Just puts the “cull” plants in the coop for his chickens to eat 
Whoever it was, great idea!
And an edit to make my post more fun. Gonna start feeding my culls to the chickens as well. Here’s Robot Arm (probably can’t tell, but she’s a chicken 
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@PsillyRabbit this looks like it’s going to be a fun project! I like how you went into it with a plan of attack. I tend to just wing it. Which I think then translates pretty well into my sub par grows. I didn’t think I had any freaks, but found this in my stash, so that’s pretty cool. I’ll follow along here for some freak motivation!
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the best laid plans of mice and men…
Moving along .
I am res0wing 50 soaked seeds today 25 from from each mother
I think i have two freaks.
Also i few that are deeply serrated but i believe that i am just going to kill them.
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I was expecting it to be a lot easier to tell if a plant was a freak based on the first set of leaves. But I hadn’t considered that many of them might show a mix of traits, resulting in a “flame leaf” form that sits somewhere between standard and full freak. It’s actually been a bit tricky to distinguish, especially when a narrow first set of leaves can look similar to freaky leaves for a few days.
Lots of fun I have been looking at these seedlings like 6-8 times a day. I will have space to flower out 10 bags or so for sinsemilla
Here are some in the middle.
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Cool man I like the one on the middle
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I guess it kind of makes sense they might need to get a little bigger to be more obvious and maybe get a 2nd set of leaves.
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The few that are showing true* freak leaves I was able to spot by 12 hours or so of being out of the soil like freakshow.
I should have put two maybe even 3 seeds in each A,B &C spots. If i use this technique for pheno hunting autos again that is what i will do.
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This is the best - love being a le to hunt through traits so early with lines like this - got 2 trays of freak/ABC hybrids now and poking my head in every few hours now to see any weirdos popping up. Nice when you don’t have to wait to long yo start making observations.
Watching this one - love seeing mutants mature.
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Gotta re sow another 15 tomorrow bringing the total to 155 beans so far.
I figure I have about a three-week window to keep re-sowing if my first potential auto freak is already alive and female. After this point, she would likely be out of her optimal pollination window.
I have 8 one gallon (Banana Daddy auto x freakshow) x (Banana Daddy auto)-[ F1BXBD] As backup running simultaneously in a differnt tent.
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Got another 4-5 freaks on the last re sow. Decided to cull all the half freaks and crinkle leaves. Just sowed another 60 soaked seeds bringing the total over 200.
One more Hail-Mary re-sow this week. Then fingers crossed some of these freaks will start to flower with 20 hours.
one keeper half freak
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