Totemic

These plants start life so small and seem to take forever to grow....but when they take off they go fast.

Sad to hear, but also good to hear that that you are onto bigger better things.

Where is Nguni here. .. that's history bro.. actually when is nguni making a comeback?

As another week passes, the first 3 bubbleberry plants have been axed from the hunt. Mutated, and stretchy unwanted sativa. Bubbleberry The THC Bomb is pushing out what seems to be a random pheno set. 3/4 Strawberry Fields up. Right off the mark, pretty stretchy seedlings, and the same height as the bombs, and Bubbleberry. Going to have to pot up soon. Just holding back a bit to get my timing right.

Not the type of thing I've been counting. I've also never treated them as heavy feeders...

I'm silently optimistic. This flower, while there have been three females to the cross, is also 5 generations worth of my own male selections.

Day 13/14 Im very happy with their development the last week. 3 of the 4 are Choc Gelato dominant, and the last is Slurricane dominant, and I've experienced between 15 and 30cm stretch. Their next feed in the morning I'll be switching over to a flowering nute schedule. I'm running with the Biobizz range, and been using their Grow and Bloom, but adding Top Max as well this round.

Yeah man, that extra 50cm is worth having.

Lovely. I'm going to be hunting my F2s in a few months. If you want seeds to join the hunt it's done. The 33 line I'm running with has Sunset sherbert crossed in, but then I selected from my choco NL F3s onto those. Loving what the F1s did, and loving the influence carry as im seeing on my current run of Tortoni. The slurricane pheno is heavy stretchy punch genes. Tortoni #2 is a pheno like this. You can see the punch genes stuck in the corner. While, #1,3,4 are choc gelato dominant filling the other 75% These are at day 11 now. PS. Sorry for the thread hijack

Looking like all sorts if lekker there. Interesting to see those gelatos develop. I've got an indica heavy hybrid vibe to my line.

Yeah had the same experience with the gelato males out performing the other males I had at the time. From whom is the Strawberry cough? Adding the cookies genes may reduce SC stretch(if you have a stretchy pheno...most are)

High male ratio from my seeds?

Another week. THC Bomb Bubbleberry Then the 4 pots between the 2 are 4 x Strawberry Fields(Crockett Family Farms/DNA Genetics), that I'm expecting above ground tomorrow. A few of us in CT pitched together to get a 12 pack. Really excited to be adding these to the hunt.

The last few regular and feminized packs of my 2020 season are available online. Once they are gone, they are gone.

I work exclusively with US and EU genetics. Most of my effort goes into combining those two pools. What makes or will make it local is that it is being bred and selected for these local weather conditions, median gradient from the equator etc. Many EU and US genetics perform way better at our latitude than they do where they are originally selected from. Then when it comes to our local landraces, my optimism bubble pops. Our landrace genetics is so polluted, and has been completely changed over the decades. Depending on what you are selecting for, our landraces are a poor pool to select from. That's where projects like my chocolope line come in. I'm busy turning this line into and F10(IBL)...effectively a new landrace. All my selection breeding on this line is outdoors, during all seasons. This is still years away as I'm only going for F5s now, but the point is, local breeders need to have projects going to create new landraces for the future. The benefits of such a directory would be vast to local breeders and consumers alike

It helps keeping colas where you want them, and if you dont use the net for any flattening training, you will still be able to lift it or lower it and gain deeper access if needed.

Its puts us(SA community) in a position to define criteria for listing. Minimum F gen. I release F1s, but general rule of thumb should really be F4 as a stable release. Must have lab test backing, phylos paperwork etc. Just examples but you get the idea The options are limitless really

Here's a thought. A local version or similiar directory for exclusively SA genetics. Come now IT guys, here's something...

The role of laboratory work is more important now than ever. Seedfinder is a great resource to provide a 'visual' genetic history of the genome. I have noticed recently though that many of the newer breeders, and even the seed producer class of 'breeder' are spamming seedfinder with every single cross they chucked pollen at. That reduces the reliability of the directory imo

Diaries are tough to keep. Life is happening, and quite often diaries derail if something goes wrong and guys loose motivation. Veg and early flower are for the most part the boring piece, as its foliage and training. I endeavour to keep updates 7 days apart. A weeks development at a time is a nice snapshot. I also take the same shots from the same angles every time to keep it consistent. But it's part of my routine for a long time now, and happens 'automatically'

This is only a 1x1 space, so I can just just reach the back if I let my rib muscles spasm just right 1.2m + like the space you running, a net just isnt an option. Stakes work best then.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of having to stake and have yoyo hangers all over the place.

Day 7

South Africa is at that point imo As the industry is taking shape(pretty fast too), standards are going up. Many guys that have been breeding quietly for years are coming out now. It's time to level up. Even my breeding practices are changing. I currently release untested crosses, with an experimental approach to get feedback other than my own opinion of a cross. However from this year I'm formalizing completely. Large pheno hunts, testing, and more testing. My next seed release will probably only be next year. This is a hunting year for me.

I've noticed a lot of guys topping out their QBs height in the tent with the light still at the half way mark. My solution is to hang my QB differently, and gain 50cm in height. Hope this helps