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[sir grow alot]

Reverse several at a time and find your ideal donors? Then do the same for the mom or hit a few branches with a few donors. You will soon have more seed than you could ever grow. I would personally reverse several hbss and ripleys depending on your seed count do a few reproductions to gain a larger selection and cross a few branches. If you want to breed longer term get some top shelf reg seed from someplace like autoflowerportal to find a male. Otherwise let the Fem dust fly.

CS works well, Sts to. Make sure and get good materials either way and a good recipe.
@Iamlegend2121 has some sweet fem crosses.

Thanks for your insight, seems like HBSS and Ripley will be my donors. Im not necessarily looking for long term breeding right away more just saving money on seeds.

Grow them out and pick the best one. Picking a donor before you grow the plant out, is like picking a wife before you've even seen or talked to her. Pollen is more than just pollen. It carries the plants DNA. What good is pollen from a non vigorous plant with horrible branching and no smell on the stem rub? Regardless of strain, I would grow as many seeds as I could.. Pick the best plant(s), and go from there. Find a pheno you like that has traits you would want to breed with. Pollen from a crap plant will just make seeds that will grow more crap plants. Lol. Start with your best plant(s) and go from there.

LOL agreed, no one wants a randomly selected ugly wife!! Luckily at least with CS you dont start spraying until onset of flowering so you get to see the vigor and experience the stem rub of each before selecting a plant to reverse. Luckily from all the journals ive seen Mephisto has pretty consistently solid plants so thats one big reason ill be using one of their genetics as the donor.
I will be growing 3-5 of each strain so i will be able to see the traits i desire before selection

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Thanks i am going to look into now


Also, clearly, remembered my old password to sir grow alot....STONER.....

 

[thetreeman]

Nice thing about STS is you only need to spray a couple times. When I did it I sprayed once / week until nanners showed and it worked great. I tried CS twice a day for weeks and got some nanners eventually but never did produce any pollen.

 

[sir grow alot]

Nice thing about STS is you only need to spray a couple times. When I did it I sprayed once / week until nanners showed and it worked great. I tried CS twice a day for weeks and got some nanners eventually but never did produce any pollen.

I agree that helps alot not having to spray so often. First thing i noticed after reading on it lol. With CS i experienced the same thing in a way. I got sacs all over but just seemed like most had little to no pollen but they did in fact have enough to make a whole 5 seeds lol

I am reading more on STS at the moment but STS this is the way i am going to do it. Going to test with spraying a whole plant and a few select branches of another couple plants to see if when only spraying a few branches what will happen to the rest of the plant? anyone know? other wise testing away commences asap.

Thanks again for suggesting the STS

 

[thetreeman]

Ive only ever done branches with STS and it works fine for me....

 

[sir grow alot]

Ive only ever done branches with STS and it works fine for me....

That’s great news Treeman thanks brotheren.

Well I will just be spraying each strain to keep original seeds then, and a few crosses to have fun with. I’m excited as hell now

What do you use personally to keep the spray from the other branches you don’t want reversed?

Thanks for your response and insight

 

[Iamlegend2121]

Just remember if your spraying only one branch you still should not smoke the bud from that plant.

One branch will work to create male sacs but once you spray that plant it is not safe for consumption. Maybe edibles (if using cs) but I wouldn’t risk it. I would make sure you want only seeds before you go that route.

Ripleys is a good plant I have one going now. Bigger plant size, seriously stinky buds and a lot of people say it’s top notch smoke. That would be a good candidate as long as it is a good plant.

As far as hubba bubba goes I’ve had poor experiences with that one. Poor germ rates and one of mine that did germ hermied on me so I’m skeptical of HBSS but if you keep an eye out you should be fine.

If you need a small batch recipe for STS just let me know.

 

[Exotic Flower]

Whats up AFN Fam. Its been along time since I was on here with life getting crazy. I was formally Sir Grow Alot and have some grows on here but lost my email and password so i am now Sir grow alotta Buds....anywayyyyys

I have just ordered the following Mephisto seeds and I would love to have Mephisto him self answer this question but am open to all suggestions.

seeds:
chemdogging
hubbabubbasmellscope
ripley og
chem city blues

THE QUESTION: If i were to take one of the following strains to pollenate the whole lot of them what would you suggest to be the pollen donor? and why? will be reversed female pollen using CS on one separate plant grown indoors for ease of CS sprays and pollen collection.

I also have:

Auto coloroado cookies (DP)
auto blueberry (DP)
cbd kush auto (DP)
dark devil auto (sweet seeds)
super lemon haze auto (GHS)

I will be hitting them with the pollen as well.

I had considered trying to do a branch or 2 per plant with the CS and try to keep each plant true to itself but decided due to time constraints i wont be able to.

This is all no till in 15 gal pots, i wanted beds but will have to wait for a larger greenhouse.

So this is what i got...I will post pics once i have some to post. seeds were just ordered a few minutes ago.

Thanks to any and all for taking time to respond.

Hey Sir Grow a Lot of Buds!

Sounds like a cool project, hope it works out well.
As for which strain to be your converted daddy...

My first thought would be:
What kind of strain do you want to breed here?
Should always have something in mind for selection.
Otherwise very hard to stabilize your strain.

For example, are you looking for fast maturation?
Or looking for heavy yield? Or high potency?
Or looking for a particular color or taste?

Just settle on one (or max, two) things.
Then look at a bunch of grows with them by others,
and pick what you think will be the best daddy strain.

Drop lots of beans for the potential dad.
Not just 1, 2 or 3. Selection is in the numbers.
Otherwise, breeding average specimens with each other,
over time will just lead to average results.

You can def do a couple of daddys with each mom.
Just make sure to label the branches pollinated properly.
And bag them when the pollen hits, so no cross contamination.

If the mom and dad don't have any common ancestry,
you'll prob end up with some very nice F1 results with hybrid vigor.
That hybrid vigor is very nice, usually.
But once you hit F2, things can get messy.
So try to use both mothers and fathers than are quite stable strains.
Ideally IBL, but at least fairly stable.
Otherwise the genotypes and phenotypes get out of control pretty quick.
And it'll be hard to get plants that are what you want.

All the best!
MJS

 

[sir grow alot]

Hey Sir Grow a Lot of Buds!

Sounds like a cool project, hope it works out well.
As for which strain to be your converted daddy...

My first thought would be:
What kind of strain do you want to breed here?
Should always have something in mind for selection.
Otherwise very hard to stabilize your strain.

For example, are you looking for fast maturation?
Or looking for heavy yield? Or high potency?
Or looking for a particular color or taste?

Just settle on one (or max, two) things.
Then look at a bunch of grows with them by others,
and pick what you think will be the best daddy strain.

Drop lots of beans for the potential dad.
Not just 1, 2 or 3. Selection is in the numbers.
Otherwise, breeding average specimens with each other,
over time will just lead to average results.

You can def do a couple of daddys with each mom.
Just make sure to label the branches pollinated properly.
And bag them when the pollen hits, so no cross contamination.

If the mom and dad don't have any common ancestry,
you'll prob end up with some very nice F1 results with hybrid vigor.
That hybrid vigor is very nice, usually.
But once you hit F2, things can get messy.
So try to use both mothers and fathers than are quite stable strains.
Ideally IBL, but at least fairly stable.
Otherwise the genotypes and phenotypes get out of control pretty quick.
And it'll be hard to get plants that are what you want.

All the best!
MJS

Hey Maria thanks for the nice response and thoughts here . Ill tell you i have thought of all these but the number one thing i care about is TASTE!!:drool: usually along with taste comes great smell so id say the second most important is effect. Yeild is by far the least concern of mine. After so many years of commercial grade bud i really dont enjoy any thing other than connoisseur buds.

Just remember if your spraying only one branch you still should not smoke the bud from that plant.

One branch will work to create male sacs but once you spray that plant it is not safe for consumption. Maybe edibles (if using cs) but I wouldn’t risk it. I would make sure you want only seeds before you go that route.

Ripleys is a good plant I have one going now. Bigger plant size, seriously stinky buds and a lot of people say it’s top notch smoke. That would be a good candidate as long as it is a good plant.

As far as hubba bubba goes I’ve had poor experiences with that one. Poor germ rates and one of mine that did germ hermied on me so I’m skeptical of HBSS but if you keep an eye out you should be fine.

If you need a small batch recipe for STS just let me know.

yes please send me the small batch recipe of the STS!! you da man... thanks for letting me know that i cant smoke it lol. I was thinking i was going to spray one branch per plant and get seeds of each lol, NOT! great info Im going to check out your ripley now

 

[mikey2017]

Hey Maria thanks for the nice response and thoughts here . Ill tell you i have thought of all these but the number one thing i care about is TASTE!!:drool: usually along with taste comes great smell so id say the second most important is effect. Yeild is by far the least concern of mine. After so many years of commercial grade bud i really dont enjoy any thing other than connoisseur buds.


yes please send me the small batch recipe of the STS!! you da man... thanks for letting me know that i cant smoke it lol. I was thinking i was going to spray one branch per plant and get seeds of each lol, NOT! great info [emoji106] Im going to check out your ripley now

I'd like to have it also

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[mikey2017]

Just remember if your spraying only one branch you still should not smoke the bud from that plant.

One branch will work to create male sacs but once you spray that plant it is not safe for consumption. Maybe edibles (if using cs) but I wouldn’t risk it. I would make sure you want only seeds before you go that route.

Ripleys is a good plant I have one going now. Bigger plant size, seriously stinky buds and a lot of people say it’s top notch smoke. That would be a good candidate as long as it is a good plant.

As far as hubba bubba goes I’ve had poor experiences with that one. Poor germ rates and one of mine that did germ hermied on me so I’m skeptical of HBSS but if you keep an eye out you should be fine.

If you need a small batch recipe for STS just let me know.

My favorite so far is 3 BOG

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