True, but most of them that’s all there is anyway. There are about 20 plants on those 3 beds.
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You could always pick a few at random.
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Sometimes it’s best to wait. I’ll be honest with you sometimes I trash my stuff. I got a container in there now I’m debating either to make butter or throw it in the trash. I would like to make some hash but maybe next time.
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These are the only survivors of the Solo’s Stash. Hard to believe these were planted over six weeks ago.
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6 weeks and still that small. What’s your secret so I can reverse engineer it 
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Take some soil and remove any aeration in it, then add way too many nutrients and soak it so it’s super wet. I want the texture of a mud pie here. Now plant your seeds in it and keep a humidity dome on it for way too long. Don’t forget to keep over watering them and and if you are lucky 4/11 will not damp off. Now ignore them until the soil finally dries out and you will be where I am now.
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So do what I usually do anyway
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So today is day 84 and I’m pretty certain the seeds are ripe. I’ll likely take these before the lights come back on.
I want to talk about backcrossing for a minute. I just learned yesterday that BX is a cannabis thing and in botany it’s called a BC.
So I accidentally pollinated my Grape Walker Kush with JLo F1 pollen to create my GLo F1 seeds. I then reversed one of the autoflowering GLo F1 and used that to create a GLo F2. I pollinated everything this round with the GLo F1 reversed pollen.
Now I have some Geape Walker Kush in there, is that a backcross? Or is that something different since it’s a sibling and not an actual parent? What about the GLo F2 that are in there? Is that a backcross? Or does it have to be the female parent to be a backcross? There is no right or wrong answer, these are just some stoned musings.
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I wonder about that too.
For auto’s, since you can not keep a clone, to closest to a “Bx” would be crossing back to a sibling of the original mom. Or using saved pollen to BX by way of recurring pollen donor (the freezer). Limited by the lifespan of frozen pollen…
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Well I’ve done both with this round of seeds.
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Doesn’t matter gender of parent, a back cross is just simply going back a generation or more so if u have an f1 to start, kept those seeds or pollen from that GENERATION then had a few f3 plants going that u would cross back with that f1 female chucking f3 pollen at it and you would have a BX, same goes for having an f3 female and chucking f1 pollen back at it.
The main reasons for a back cross for most breeders is when they are closely working a line and an undesirable trait popped up in it so if they are working their lines to f5-7 Ibls and something showed up in f6 and f7 they can go back and back cross f4 or f5 to hopefully work the undesirable back out or if they noticed a really desirable trait they liked in the f4 generation and had to work to the f6/f7 to stabilize the other traits they can go back and try to work back in the trait they liked in the f4 again. Bottom line anytime u take 2 strains and put em together u start a new finial generation f1, the seeds out of the same resulting plant(s) from both parents are that generation. Crossing ANY those seeds together from those resulting seeds will always take it to the next finial f2 given the same parents.
Now if you take two strains like say blue dream and space queen and crossed em you would have dream queen f1, but if you took dream queen to f2 and crossed it with only one parent say blue dream it wouldn’t be a back cross it would be blue dream x dream queen f1 since it isn’t a full cross of both parents of the original creation and would technically be an entire new cross
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A backcross is a cross back a generation or more to one of the original parents. Grape Walker Kush isn’t an IBL, so at this point a cross to one wouldn’t be a cross to an original parent… they probably share some genes, but the GWK used in this cross and the original cross are siblings, not the same plant.
This is another situation where the F1, S1, BX system just seems to fall apart a bit… GLo iX1, I guess? It’s an incross, not an outcross, but it’s not any of the more common incrosses that we have specific labels for.
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So you are saying that:
GWK x GLo F1 (GWK x JLo) is a GWK backcross,
But GLo F2 x GLo F1 is a GLo backcross?
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This was my original thought, but wasn’t sure if I was using the terminology correctly.
I would be interested in @HolyAngel’s opinion.
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GWK x GLo F1 (GWK x JLo) isn’t a GWK backcross,
But GLo F2 x GLo F1 is a GLo backcross?
Had to correct what I’d guess is a typo but that statement is correct as I have it
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No typo, I though you were saying it was a backcross if it goes back a generation regardless of the original parent. I see now that’s not what you intended.
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So, started with GWK F1 “#1”… Pollinated it with JLO = GLo F1
You took GWK F1 “#2” and pollinated it GLo F1 “#2”… Regardless of my “#'s”, is that correct?
In this case I’d think it’s an Inline Cross.
In my understanding, a backcross is back to one of the original cultivars, e.g. The exact mom or “dad”, used to make the line you’re using.
Pollinating a sibling to the original cultivar, while still technically being a cross back to the parent generation, isn’t what we generally use the “BX/BC” term for. We use Inline Cross for that.
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Yes GWK F1 #2 x GLo F1. An inline cross then, IX/IC sounds like the appropriate term. I’m hoping either of these crosses will keep the “Skywalker OG” smell I got off the GWK, GLo F1 and GLo F2s. 
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Ya I suppose IX would be fitting then, didn’t even think of that one since most seed banks that take a x( a x b) will usually have some new name for it
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