Rasterman
In Bloom
My journey has been underway for months already, but the journey's journal is just getting started now.
Many months ago, I popped a Chick Magnet and two Black Widow seeds. One Black Widow was male, one was female. I put the chick magnet on a flowering schedule way too soon, but it stretched like crazy! The cabinet it was in isn't very tall (5' outside height, so about 24" of plant height before light burn), so I spread it out like an octopus and it took over the whole closet. It happily threw up colas from every horizontal branch, like nothing I've ever seen!
Because it was a fem seed, I pollinated it with what I had available - the male Black Widow. In its offspring, I hoped:
1. To breed back to a regular Chick Magnet.
2. To get something intermediate between Black Widow and Chick Magnet, because the female Black Widow I grew was a bit delicate.
3. To pheno hunt the F2 generation and find a unicorn I could call my own.
I've been growing less than two years, and am very impatient. So I harvested the seeds too soon. I initially planted 10 F1 seeds, and two sprouted. One died. I heavily trained the other one and took two clones from the biggest branches. BCF1#1 was put on 12s a few days ago. This is her today:
I planted some more seeds, and one sprouted. BCF1#2 was born (not sure of the sex yet):
20 seeds and two plants. Frustrating, to say the least! So I put a handful of seeds (80 or so) into a three-gallon pot and one sprouted. Then a couple more. Every day another sprout or two. Today, there are 31 and counting. It seems my impatience struck again!
But this is great, right? I'm on track to creating the F2 generation. I have a 20 gallon pot to transplant them in and am going to let them open-pollinate for maximum diversity. Because they'll be so crowded, I doubt height will be an issue. My training will be limited to pulling them away from each other, and I'll cull as necessary. I'll also take cuttings of any promising females but I'm really more interested in the F2 generation. The two older plants will be part of the open pollination, as will this lady:
This is a clone of another chick magnet seed my son popped from the same pack of Chick Magnet fems-for the chick magnet-ish line. He said it's fire! - so there you go.
So that's where I'm at - I can only grow a few of the F2s at a time, but I hope to eventually find something special.
I'll update this log regularly, maybe too regularly.
Many months ago, I popped a Chick Magnet and two Black Widow seeds. One Black Widow was male, one was female. I put the chick magnet on a flowering schedule way too soon, but it stretched like crazy! The cabinet it was in isn't very tall (5' outside height, so about 24" of plant height before light burn), so I spread it out like an octopus and it took over the whole closet. It happily threw up colas from every horizontal branch, like nothing I've ever seen!
Because it was a fem seed, I pollinated it with what I had available - the male Black Widow. In its offspring, I hoped:
1. To breed back to a regular Chick Magnet.
2. To get something intermediate between Black Widow and Chick Magnet, because the female Black Widow I grew was a bit delicate.
3. To pheno hunt the F2 generation and find a unicorn I could call my own.
I've been growing less than two years, and am very impatient. So I harvested the seeds too soon. I initially planted 10 F1 seeds, and two sprouted. One died. I heavily trained the other one and took two clones from the biggest branches. BCF1#1 was put on 12s a few days ago. This is her today:
I planted some more seeds, and one sprouted. BCF1#2 was born (not sure of the sex yet):
20 seeds and two plants. Frustrating, to say the least! So I put a handful of seeds (80 or so) into a three-gallon pot and one sprouted. Then a couple more. Every day another sprout or two. Today, there are 31 and counting. It seems my impatience struck again!
But this is great, right? I'm on track to creating the F2 generation. I have a 20 gallon pot to transplant them in and am going to let them open-pollinate for maximum diversity. Because they'll be so crowded, I doubt height will be an issue. My training will be limited to pulling them away from each other, and I'll cull as necessary. I'll also take cuttings of any promising females but I'm really more interested in the F2 generation. The two older plants will be part of the open pollination, as will this lady:
This is a clone of another chick magnet seed my son popped from the same pack of Chick Magnet fems-for the chick magnet-ish line. He said it's fire! - so there you go.
So that's where I'm at - I can only grow a few of the F2s at a time, but I hope to eventually find something special.
I'll update this log regularly, maybe too regularly.
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