Selecting a Mother

[Horsemanrocks]

Oldmacâ?¦I much appreciate the tip you gave me on the other threadâ?¦.and, it brought me here to information that I need also. Youâ??re a fine teacher, and teaching a much needed subject. With laws changing as they are, I imagine the newb population is running rampant.
Iâ??m a newbboomerâ?¦Iâ??m a newbboomerâ?¦â?¦kinda catchy, donâ??t you think. Yeah I knowâ?¦..some people just shouldnâ??t sing. But if Neil Young made it as a singerâ?¦.anything is possible!

Horsemanoncerocked.

[oldmac]

Quick update, since last time rooted cuttings where planted into containers of P-mix, and are rooting nicely under the T5 HOs (plus actinic white).

But time is up, and these last three cuttings have reached my arbitrary and coprecius dead line. Speaking of dead these 3 cuttings represent 2 plants that are the weakest link and are banished from the gene pool.

[oldmac]

Here's a couple of shoots of the original 10 plants grown from seed, sharing a 1000kwatt HPS, with a small batch of much smaller Apricot plants, in the bloom room.

[oldmac]

This is off the topic of mother selection but it's fun to experiment alittle.
Mentioned before about starting some auto flowers....had to put the 4- LR2Xsanta marias' into the bloom room a couple of weeks ago since they were not "auto-flowering" like the 3-LR2XAK47 where. Here's some picks of the AKs.
Note: just found 2 of the LR2XSM in the flower room tonight with 'nanas, yup hermethodites. Took them and tossed them out immediately. BE gone you damned abominations!
Plus I can't resist, also some pics of batch of Apricot under the hybred T5/LED light. I just love the colors.

[oldmac]

Hey there Horsemanrocks,

Glad to see you stopped by. Sorta a slow thing I have going here.
But I'm trying to do my best to document my selection process, but it never grows fast enough for me.

Speaking of slow.......
Just had a server melt down and my last pics did not make it thru.
So here goes the "shits and giigles" pics again.

[Horsemanrocks]

Almost a month ago I started some 25yr old indica bagseed from a very large local guerilla grow. Most germed and all cracked in 36hrs. Iâ??m a newb and immediately thought that I was in â??tall cottonâ?�. As it turns out one has outperformed the others by a lot.
I only started 6 and you have me thinking that a larger gene pool would be a very fine idea indeed. I have plenty of seed, and even though Iâ??m a frugal sort, in the morning itâ??s time to see if there are any more â??out performersâ?� waiting in the wingsâ?¦er..freezer.

Comment on old seed if you feel so inclined (not me, the mj seed) and while so many hold their breath any comments on soils, lighting, or maybe some Jessica Simpson pictures would be good

Hasta la later,
Horsemanwillrockagain

[oldmac]

Yo Horse,

I have a bunch of old seeds stored, and have germed some that where over 30 years old. My observations have been that really old seeds tend to either germ or not, and the older they are the higher the number of "nots". And the amount of strange or mutant starts are the same as fresh seeds. So my conclusion is that there is no harm geneticly to long term storage, just the amount of viable seeds decreases.

And the larger the gene pool the better. My rule of thumb has been 10 minium for feminized seed 20 for regular seeds. All of that said I realize that lucky beats hard work. I once had two seeds from Africa, something we called "black hockey puck" back then. Only one germed, but turned out to be a "perfect" plant in all respects. Go figure.

Jessica Simspon? How about Veronica Lake! (go look that one up in a history book)LOL

[Weezard]

But, fo' da 'zard. it's always been...

Lauren Bacall y'all.:lovestruck:

<sigh>

Weeze

[Horsemanrocks]

How old are you guys?

YouTube - Jessica Simpson - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

ThisrocksHorseman

[sarah louise]

The seeds are from Sensi and are femmenized 10 pack.

The very latest of Sensi's fem lines. Very tasty. I don't know when you got yours but for the first 72 hours or so after the launch, they were cheaper than the regs. LOL typo on the Sensi shop page had them listed for about 30 euros.

I'll be drooling on the sidelines through this one.

sara :jointsmile: