[primordial]

Last year was the first year I've grown any other seeds in a quarter century,
so I can't speak to any of that stuff.

Instead of uniformity I always went for diversity,
and I thought all my plants were extremely different from each other;
'till I grew some CookieCrosses, Moonshine Haze and Farmer Mix last year--
each phenotype of those is way more radically different than mine are...
[I'll definitely find-out this year 'cause I liked the new blood so much--
I'm gonna do a dozen new strains this time 'round...]

Most of this breeding stuff is over my head,
all I've ever done (outside/sun only)
was pick my (me an my wife's) favorite females;
pick a few favorite males, cross every female with each of those males;
and see what happens--
rinse-lather-repeat.

I'm just as much The AntiBreeder Heh: by deselection;
~25 years ago I had <maybe> 5% hermaphrodites,
every one removed as soon as it showed;
~10 years ago it was down to <maybe>1-2%,
5 years ago none--
and none since...

Nice. I used to say a successful grow is a hermy free grow, back then I was easily content, now I need it to cure cancer.......

 

[MexaMntnGrow]

Exactly what im trying to do right now in Mexico. Ive secured a nice little spot in the mountains and am experimenting with various strains ive smoked down here. Ive named each patch of grow according to the charactaristics of that strain. Ive just begun 2 weeks ago and have 9 of 24 seedlings popping out of the soil already. I will update.

 

[FarmeR.Jay]

Exactly what im trying to do right now in Mexico. Ive secured a nice little spot in the mountains and am experimenting with various strains ive smoked down here. Ive named each patch of grow according to the charactaristics of that strain. Ive just begun 2 weeks ago and have 9 of 24 seedlings popping out of the soil already. I will update.

Pictures of the grow ? Sounds kick ass

 

[FarmeR.Jay]

Mexican genetics now days can contain almost anything genetically.
Some Mexican farmers were growing imported seed back in the late 70's,and many continue to do so.....

It is not that uncommon to find modern hybrids,Afghani's,Columbian,and Thai genetics in Commercial Mexican Cannabis.The last time I visited friends in Batopillas,they smoked me out with some Super Lemon Haze buds......o_OThey got the seeds from Greenhouse Seeds ,via The Attitude.....

Recently I was gifted some seeds that are from some Zapotec people who have been growing the same strain for 7 generations.It will be interesting to see what these seeds produce....

Do you have a grow diary on here ?

 

[MexaMntnGrow]

Pictures of the grow ? Sounds kick ass

Sure! Ill be uploading pics as i go along and documenting on video. Ive always bought bags of weed here in Mexico and most of the time it was really bad looking but got me pretty stoned. I grew a couple seeds a few years ago of some random Mexico bud and what came out in the end was surprisingly good. My plant was purple and the smoke was very decent. Lots of tricomes. I believe most Mexico bud loses its trichomes in the harvest and storing process as I learned doing a bit of bagging up for a cartel a few years back. They usually cut it down all together, and males, females, sticks stems, leaves, seeds and bugs all compressed together with no drying time or curing whatsoever. By the time the US gets it its probably moldy. I have collected seeds from over 30 different types of mexican brick weed and growing them in the mountains will allow me to see the actual potential of this weed. Unlike mexican weed farmers, I will ensure that no males survive and they recieve proper nutrients, light, water and a proper harvest so that the weed looks sculpted and not compressed in a brick. I am at week 3 and so far 9 have been born.

 

[Mr Bee]

Sure! Ill be uploading pics as i go along and documenting on video. Ive always bought bags of weed here in Mexico and most of the time it was really bad looking but got me pretty stoned. I grew a couple seeds a few years ago of some random Mexico bud and what came out in the end was surprisingly good. My plant was purple and the smoke was very decent. Lots of tricomes. I believe most Mexico bud loses its trichomes in the harvest and storing process as I learned doing a bit of bagging up for a cartel a few years back. They usually cut it down all together, and males, females, sticks stems, leaves, seeds and bugs all compressed together with no drying time or curing whatsoever. By the time the US gets it its probably moldy. I have collected seeds from over 30 different types of mexican brick weed and growing them in the mountains will allow me to see the actual potential of this weed. Unlike mexican weed farmers, I will ensure that no males survive and they recieve proper nutrients, light, water and a proper harvest so that the weed looks sculpted and not compressed in a brick. I am at week 3 and so far 9 have been born.

Yay!i love a good grow videa on here

 

[FarmeR.Jay]

Sure! Ill be uploading pics as i go along and documenting on video. Ive always bought bags of weed here in Mexico and most of the time it was really bad looking but got me pretty stoned. I grew a couple seeds a few years ago of some random Mexico bud and what came out in the end was surprisingly good. My plant was purple and the smoke was very decent. Lots of tricomes. I believe most Mexico bud loses its trichomes in the harvest and storing process as I learned doing a bit of bagging up for a cartel a few years back. They usually cut it down all together, and males, females, sticks stems, leaves, seeds and bugs all compressed together with no drying time or curing whatsoever. By the time the US gets it its probably moldy. I have collected seeds from over 30 different types of mexican brick weed and growing them in the mountains will allow me to see the actual potential of this weed. Unlike mexican weed farmers, I will ensure that no males survive and they recieve proper nutrients, light, water and a proper harvest so that the weed looks sculpted and not compressed in a brick. I am at week 3 and so far 9 have been born.

Sweet ! I'll be around to watch !

 

[MexaMntnGrow]

I am at war with grass hoppers they are eating my weed in the mountains

 

[GrowMigo]

Nice. I used to say a successful grow is a hermy free grow, back then I was easily content, now I need it to cure cancer.......

No more cancer but i agree, a successful grow is Hermie free!

 

[GrowMigo]

In my own chase of my first "high," sativas, have come the closest. I did not personally witness mexican genetics shift in mexico, but I believe in change, so if indeed mexican brick changed in the new century, then I am also very curious as to how indica evolved in areas where sativas once flourished. I personally believe that genetics overpower environment, but itsrarely that simple. Nonetheless, Iam a fan of the 90's Chi-town stressand have no problem growing seedwhether it be bought, free, bread,or accident, white, black, solid,striped, small or big, I even grow the red tinted ones ;^}

We found the answer Nephew..

 

[GrowMigo]

How much experience and research shows that about ibl's and hermaphridiot seed? I mentioned this because I learned to grow from herm seed and back crossed seed.

The 50% gen 50% environment to me personally in the realm of cannabis is a ploy from "seed creators" to blame the new growers for herms.

In my experience, and in my learning with the only seed I had, in the same region for over twenty years, SOME genetics (ibl's, bx's, s1's,...) have shown more then 50%/50, I'd say 75/25 and depending how inbred or tightly back crossed some 80/20 gen/environment
@geologic @Sativied

How uniform are yall's ibl's and back crossed stuff compared to commercially bred stuff, for instance, outdoors or indoors, how predictable are your ibl's and other tightly bred seeds compared to seed co. Seeds?

@geologic @Sativied I must admit I been following some of yall's work and I'm thankful to have learned from plenty of both of yours works.

We will have to show another show nephew, hermies are making a comeback jajajajaja!

 

[GrowMigo]

LoL. My goal is to find that happy smoke. Basically, mexican brick during my elders time was too strong and the breeders had to breed certain characteristics out in exchange for yield. Great for dealers and bad for stoners, they bred for less potency intentionally so smokers would consume more often and have to buy more I'm guessing this took place in 70's and 80's when coke and other uppers where hitting the streets hard.

Its still the goal nephew!

 

[madgrower666]

Bag seed I ended up growing this year nothing but a pain in the ass leafy moody bitch. But I too have had some good luck with the bag seeds I've grown. Figured I share since I seen ya talking about it

 

[GrowMigo]