PNC's road to rankness

[paulnchuckeriii]

 

[BH]

Great looking garden up in here, they are soo loving you

thanks For sharing and hope to see more of this in the future!

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

I wish I took more pictures of the males and better pictures of the specific females that I selected. Once males were identified, they were brought to a different section of the house, and left to do their thing. They were all very similar in structure and smell. Different than the females, with each plant being noticeably different. So my only real criteria to judge the pollen donor by, was who was the latest flowerer? That was pretty much it, but let everyone grow nonetheless to preserve all the options. The plan was to only pollinate one arm of my favorite female selection, and go from there. Well, there happened to be two that I really wanted to see more of, so two arms were carefully pollinated. I essentially took the top of the male that I wanted and shook it over a piece of paper, collecting the pollen and painting it all over the smaller branches of the two ladies I chose. Taking the ladies out of the tent, and carefully applying the pollen, although, you can see in that last pic here, the male flower that didn't quite make it to its destination. It worked. I got about 100 seeds or so per plant, and not too many rando's up in the rest of the plant... a couple/few, but nothing to write home about.

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

Then there was that one (actually two) blurple gardens once upon a time circa 2011 -- I was likely rocking Bio Canna at this time, and the LED was a California Lightworks first generation, SolarStorm 880, with the UV finishing bulbs. Unfortunately, these are the only photos I have been able to find thus far. Hopefully, I can find some finished pics as well as pics from the run after this, where I did a side-by-side in a 3x3 tray with a 600W HID... hopefully. My initial findings back then was the California Lightworks at that point was producing the same results as its equivelent watt HPS counterpart without the heat. I couldn't operate without added heat, so I stopped using these LED's after the second grow.

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

Now to get back to my WiFi chuck, getting deeper into flower...

 

[TopShelfTrees]

Looking great my friend!

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

Looking great my friend!

thank you!

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

Continuing on towards the finish of my WiFi chuck...

 

[TopShelfTrees]

Great job! They all look happy healthy and fire!

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

Great job! They all look happy healthy and fire!

Thank you good sir! It was a great learning experience.

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

So these are the last shots of my WiFi X Shangri-La run. I wish I took better pics of my males and the pollen dispersal, the branches and seed development. I would have sworn, I had some of these saved in the cloud, but nada. Maybe I will find them one day. As I get more current with my grow journal here, I will keep my regiment updated a little more clearly. Thank you for taking this stroll down memory lane with me

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

Yay! The day has finally arrived -- my Rancid Red beans made it! These seeds are from Fullpower Selections, The Afghan Project. They were collected during their 2022 journies; specifically their first red selection from the primary crop in Maruf, Kandahar. She was described as such, "Selection#1, turned beautiful colors on both leaves and the buds ranging from completely red to deep pinkish. with a sturdy upright tree like structure. The smell on this selection was fierce and featured extremely foul, hydrogen sulphide based smells, such as rotting eggs and flesh." Exactly the terp profile I am looking for...Lord, please make her rank, the ranker the better! So, the plan here is to do my first open pollination with old red, with the intent of creating a genetically diverse foundation with which to then start my journey inward and maybe one day get her to S1. I plan on keeping all the red males, and assuming all the seeds germinate, that leaves six female spots that will be comprised between either the Pakistani Chitral and/or Afghani landrace that one of the homies gifted me. The Pakistani is from Sun Leaf Seeds, and the Afghani landrace are from an old timer up in the hills around these parts who has been only been working these particular genetics for the last couple few decades. I am not exactly sure. There is not much info on these other than they are old and need to be treated accordingly. We shall see.... hopefully they will make it to skeetfest 2023!

 

[HBZ]

Yay! The day has finally arrived -- my Rancid Red beans made it! These seeds are from Fullpower Selections, The Afghan Project. They were collected during their 2022 journies; specifically their first red selection from the primary crop in Maruf, Kandahar. She was described as such, "Selection#1, turned beautiful colors on both leaves and the buds ranging from completely red to deep pinkish. with a sturdy upright tree like structure. The smell on this selection was fierce and featured extremely foul, hydrogen sulphide based smells, such as rotting eggs and flesh." Exactly the terp profile I am looking for...Lord, please make her rank, the ranker the better! So, the plan here is to do my first open pollination with old red, with the intent of creating a genetically diverse foundation with which to then start my journey inward and maybe one day get her to S1. I plan on keeping all the red males, and assuming all the seeds germinate, that leaves six female spots that will be comprised between either the Pakistani Chitral and/or Afghani landrace that one of the homies gifted me. The Pakistani is from Sun Leaf Seeds, and the Afghani landrace are from an old timer up in the hills around these parts who has been only been working these particular genetics for the last couple few decades. I am not exactly sure. There is not much info on these other than they are old and need to be treated accordingly. We shall see.... hopefully they will make it to skeetfest 2023!

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Full bore rooting for ya here!!!! Bring on that stank??

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

Full bore rooting for ya here!!!! Bring on that stank??

Thank you good sir This is going to be one of those trial by fire scenarios. I am going all in, so we shall see. I am most certainly hoping for the best, but if it all fails, at least I will be able to make a couple few dozen super heady hemp seed goo balls... lol

 

[Rasterman]

I wish I took more pictures of the males and better pictures of the specific females that I selected. Once males were identified, they were brought to a different section of the house, and left to do their thing. They were all very similar in structure and smell. Different than the females, with each plant being noticeably different. So my only real criteria to judge the pollen donor by, was who was the latest flowerer? That was pretty much it, but let everyone grow nonetheless to preserve all the options. The plan was to only pollinate one arm of my favorite female selection, and go from there. Well, there happened to be two that I really wanted to see more of, so two arms were carefully pollinated. I essentially took the top of the male that I wanted and shook it over a piece of paper, collecting the pollen and painting it all over the smaller branches of the two ladies I chose. Taking the ladies out of the tent, and carefully applying the pollen, although, you can see in that last pic here, the male flower that didn't quite make it to its destination. It worked. I got about 100 seeds or so per plant, and not too many rando's up in the rest of the plant... a couple/few, but nothing to write home about.

100 seeds is great for a home grower though. Especially if they're fire and you don't have to do anything extra.

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

100 seeds is great for a home grower though. Especially if they're fire and you don't have to do anything extra.

true that!

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

A little scarification for these old rando Afghanis for their soak before being planted...

 

[paulnchuckeriii]

I’ve been a fan of Jiffy pellets from day one…