esbe said:mission corn field job well done! i dreamt of you bro! happy you do the rd seeds, needs a lil selection i think.
tnx for the thoughts Esbe.
i must admit i had a little bad feeling when leaving home with all those plants under a carpet in my backseat since i saw a police car a little earlier when driving home from my girlfriend, and also near the first spot where i saw a police car parked with lights on a smaller road, probably checking out some domestic fight as theres normally not much police in my area, although they patrol here sometimes at night looking for burglers and drunk drivers.
theres not many cars on the road that time of night and so if you meet a police car theres a big chance they wanna check you out for drunk driving.
once i got to the first corn field there was no ther cars in the area.
i took me box with plants, my small light ( which i didnt use anyway) and my plant fork and hurried into the corn.
once i started removing corn and replanting i got caught with exitement and time flew by.
a little after 3 Am it was slowly getting day again and i still need to plant the last spot.
still in euforia i decided to do it even though i was slowly starting to loose the cover of darkness, but once there the corn was so high i was hidden once on my kness working, so i only had to make sure not to be seen entering and exiting the corn.
there was a farm house nearby with somewhat visibility to the corn but after having moved myself a little the view from the house was blocked by a tree and i was able to to the last part and go home and get some needed sleep ( ofcourse not until my euforia after the "mission" was going down after having made a small text update.
i wasnt counting precise but i think i planted 60 of out a total of 200+ plants so theres still some to go, but i have a friend to help me next time.
he has no problem sacrificing some sleep.
especialy when i tell him i probably have some weed to spare for the inconvinience
i know i said "open pollination" but with some kind of control on the main goals:
Potency and Earliness
the most simple way for me to do that since ill only visit them at night at this time and only daytime once the corn gets tall enough, would be to select 1-3 males for earliness and kill the rest.
Those 2 will ofcourse pollinate all the females but ill select those females with most visible trichs or very vigorous growth.
only seeds from those selected females will be used in further breeding.
i would prefer to call that " controlled open pollination".
I thank all of you for the nice words and advice.
i hope most of the spots make it and gives many good seeds and some trim for hash making also.
i have high hopes for the corn spots as the plants, once in there, are well hidden, and cops dont use helicopters for cannabis hunt in the fall in this part of the country.
corn here are breed for cattle feed and they mature it properly before harvesting it normally from start to medium October.
most often its medium October but last year it was start October due to a forced harvest due to bad weather giving muddy fields and once they had a few days without rain they rushed the harvesting.
RD and DP should finish with ripe seeds with no problems.
not being sure of Leb27 and ERxDP they have been moved to the more unsecure forrests plots.
RD x ERxDP cross is no problem for corn as im only relying on the ERxDP males.
removing the RD males the RD females will mature with the seeds, so no big disaster if the ERxDP females dont mature in the corn as i still have a forrest spot planned with pure ERxDP, and the RD females with the ERxDP pollen will mature for sure.
Afghans in forrest for sure
im more worried about the forrest spots as wood workers and deers are great canna enemies, eventhough ive tryied to bring the danger down by using fenced in parts of the forrests.
they often fence in areas with young trees to protect them from dears.
my hope is that the woord workers let the small tress take care of themselfs and dont check on them too often.