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In all my previous efforts with autos, early flowering has always resulted in a small low yield plant.yes those small flowering plants are what i would call a lolipop... Pretty sure you dont want to breed with them.. Just curious how are you going to pick your males?
Rudaralis evolcwd in eastwrn Russia/asia long long days and cold. Just like alaskaI don't know how far back the "all ruderalis" plant has been cultivated in Alaska, but the one I'm working with came south to Fairbanks from Fort Yukon. It's a squat plant, and look like normal marijuana.
I crossed it with a strange Mango keeper I brought home from Oregon about four years ago. This plant had all the good smells, very branchy, and is always in pre-flower.
The resultant seeds were grown out last summer with only one of the girls showing a valuable resistance to grey mold.
The smell is great, trichomes abundant, but the flower structure is more open than desirable. (Open flower structure may play a part in the mold resistance.)
From this one seeded plant I collected all the seeds for this season.
I will be trying to find about ten gardeners willing to grow out some of my seedlings, and let me hit them with pollen from my selected male.
Seeds will be collected and tracked based on the mothers characteristics.
This is admittedly small number selection, but it's the most I know how to do with limited capacity.
PS what is the geographical distribution of ruderalis?
Might I be working with a land race?
In a freezer in glass jars. Thats how the woeld heritage seed banks do it. At least -10 c.This just in:
I have de-boned and bagged six seeded plants that passed the auto flower challenge.
CM#1 120g
CM#2 137g
CM#3 136g
KI#1 31g
KI#2 92g
JW#1 335g
BD#1 & 2 were single branch pollinations. Each yielded few (30) seeds from giant plants.
Each of Blakes plants are bigger than JW#1 and they are un-seeded.
Very frosty, and should yield lots of extract.
Did a sub-sample on CM#1 to get an estimated seed count.
16g of flower
shake 11g
seed 5g (280 count)
2000 CM#1 f3 seeds estimated.
All the bagged plants were well seeded, so I'm expecting Jimmie's JW#1 to contain 5000 f3 seeds.
JW#1 is also a featured plant in that is was grown along side two other fine girls who fell to the brown mold.
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But here she stands mold free. (well almost. I did trim out about a dozen small nodes)
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So summer Auto Mango f3 seed production for 2017 has been a giant success!
I have 8 lines to chase next summer, and six of them have abundant seed inventory.
So this is where I ask for help.
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I plan to place these bags into a sealed cooler once they have stabilized and are dry enough.
I will probably harvest some seeds from each and store them separately.
I'm thinking dryer is better, as seeds are little water reservoirs, and subject to fungal attack.
Any thoughts on ways to store seeds for viability?
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