grower2
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Whats up there caregiverken.
I really like the sound of this cross and I know its always fun watching your own creation come to life!
All the plants look very healthy, well done, and the stems are looking nice and strong.
I can't wait to see them in flower.
Bubba Kush is usually a pretty stable breeder, and I don't know the background on your Himalayan Gold, but it sounds like it could have some landrace genetics in there maybe something sativa?, making the new strain have hybrid vigor.
Flowering the seed plants as opposed to the clones, you can do either, figures in a couple ways.
The reason for saving the original plant from seed is that if you plan on keeping one of the pheno's around for awhile with a mother plant, it is better to keep taking clones from the original as opposed to taking a copy of a copy of a copy as you go forward which as you can imagine can lead to some degradation of the plants robustness and vitality. This being more important if you plan to do any further breeding with your chosen pheno.
Next there is the size issue. I might have missed it somewhere, but what light will you use for flowering?
I ask because less powerful lighting has poorer penetration so it would be better to flower shorter plants. Any plant over say around 3 ft really needs a 1k to get adequate light to the bottom portion. And I bring this up because some of your plants from seed are looking pretty tall at this point and the sativa leaning pheno's could very likely see a good deal of stretch and have a flowering time over 10 weeks.
Anyways, hope this helps out, and I'll be watching to see how it works out for you!
I really like the sound of this cross and I know its always fun watching your own creation come to life!
All the plants look very healthy, well done, and the stems are looking nice and strong.
I can't wait to see them in flower.
Bubba Kush is usually a pretty stable breeder, and I don't know the background on your Himalayan Gold, but it sounds like it could have some landrace genetics in there maybe something sativa?, making the new strain have hybrid vigor.
Flowering the seed plants as opposed to the clones, you can do either, figures in a couple ways.
The reason for saving the original plant from seed is that if you plan on keeping one of the pheno's around for awhile with a mother plant, it is better to keep taking clones from the original as opposed to taking a copy of a copy of a copy as you go forward which as you can imagine can lead to some degradation of the plants robustness and vitality. This being more important if you plan to do any further breeding with your chosen pheno.
Next there is the size issue. I might have missed it somewhere, but what light will you use for flowering?
I ask because less powerful lighting has poorer penetration so it would be better to flower shorter plants. Any plant over say around 3 ft really needs a 1k to get adequate light to the bottom portion. And I bring this up because some of your plants from seed are looking pretty tall at this point and the sativa leaning pheno's could very likely see a good deal of stretch and have a flowering time over 10 weeks.
Anyways, hope this helps out, and I'll be watching to see how it works out for you!