How You Can Develop Cannabis To Do What You Want

[Tsubaki30]

Nothing but pure, compacted pollen goes into the container and there's absolutely no air inside the container.

Hi.

I would advice not to pack pollen too tightly in vials if you’re not sure it is very dry because it might clump and when it is clumped up the moisture in it might ruin pollen.

I’m sure you guys can guess the reason i know this..

It’s good to fill the vials so that they don’t have much air in them but don’t pack it too tightly. Summer or more humid season is when pollen will hold more moisture in it and it is easy to clump it and ruin it if you pack it in too tightly.

I drop some silica pellets in to the plastic vial before i put them in the freezer

 

[CharlesU Farley]

I'm going to write about staminate selection and clearly demonstrate the I can "get cannabis to do what I want it to do." As I wrote in the previous post, I no longer go into an in-depth process to select the staminate plant/plants. I primarily select for structure and vigor with staminates and to a lesser extent now, smell. Selecting staminate plants from the pure, line-bred NL based on smell was just about impossible, because both staminate and pistillate plants of NL exhibit very little smell. That's one of the criteria NL Seattle Greg used when developing NL, it was an indoor specific plant and had to smell as little as possible, to avoid detection.

Here is a fairly representative selection of the typical staminate plants I get when I'm working on a development project:

The plant on the left is the archetype NL structure, while the plant on the right is the typical Type II/Indica structure. Now remember, the structure I wanted to avoid because of botrytis on big, fat, thick buds was cannabis like this:

Working the pistillate line first, this was the plant I selected for developing this project primarily because of its' structure:

Which, after backcrossing, eventually transformed into this plant:

The clones of this plant are Hurricane Clones and won't be used in this round of development, 'cause they were in such a fucked up environment. Thinking this may be the case, I selected heavily Type II/Indica seeds in early October knowing I was going to need the couch-lock high to deal with shit.

This was the original staminate I used in this project:

Further generations of this project produced this staminate:

The seeds I planted in October produced ~40 plants. Out of those plants came this staminate, that is _exactly_ the type of staminate I'm looking for to fertilize The One:

It doesn't take a botanist to determine the basic structure of the staminate plants have changed, rather dramatically. How did that happen in only 3 generations?

Because my cannabis plants do what I want them to do.

 

[dogzter]

I'm going to write about staminate selection and clearly demonstrate the I can "get cannabis to do what I want it to do." As I wrote in the previous post, I no longer go into an in-depth process to select the staminate plant/plants. I primarily select for structure and vigor with staminates and to a lesser extent now, smell. Selecting staminate plants from the pure, line-bred NL based on smell was just about impossible, because both staminate and pistillate plants of NL exhibit very little smell. That's one of the criteria NL Seattle Greg used when developing NL, it was an indoor specific plant and had to smell as little as possible, to avoid detection.

Here is a fairly representative selection of the typical staminate plants I get when I'm working on a development project:

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The plant on the left is the archetype NL structure, while the plant on the right is the typical Type II/Indica structure. Now remember, the structure I wanted to avoid because of botrytis on big, fat, thick buds was cannabis like this:

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Working the pistillate line first, this was the plant I selected for developing this project primarily because of its' structure:

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Which, after backcrossing, eventually transformed into this plant:

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The clones of this plant are Hurricane Clones and won't be used in this round of development, 'cause they were in such a fucked up environment. Thinking this may be the case, I selected heavily Type II/Indica seeds in early October knowing I was going to need the couch-lock high to deal with shit.

This was the original staminate I used in this project:

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Further generations of this project produced this staminate:

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The seeds I planted in October produced ~40 plants. Out of those plants came this staminate, that is _exactly_ the type of staminate I'm looking for to fertilize The One:

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It doesn't take a botanist to determine the basic structure of the staminate plants have changed, rather dramatically. How did that happen in only 3 generations?

Because my cannabis plants do what I want them to do.

Wow............super impressive!
What kind of smells coming off them musky mens?

 

[CharlesU Farley]

Wow............super impressive!
What kind of smells coming off them musky mens?

I think dank would be the best way to describe it. Kinda of a dark smelling stink is the best desription.

Just like some women I remember from my Miami days, the deeper you get your fingers in, the stronger the smell gets.

 

[CharlesU Farley]

Haven't been able to spend much time online the last month, IRL been kicking my ass.

As the old saying goes....



Been dealing with this shit the last week or two, 4-5 miles from the house and all around WNC for that matter:

We're still in the Get Ready To Evacuate zone.

Also finally getting things repaired from the Hurricane in the Mountains:

I obviously don't have time to update what's been going on with the project right now but I'll throw up a couple of representative pics:

A below average harvest,nothing really special, my heart just wasn't in it this time. The fact the clones survived to harvest is a fucking miracle, so I'll take it as a win.

Rain is finally in the forecast so maybe maybe the fire will die the fuck out.

 

[GainesvilleGreen]

Glad you are doing well buddy, was thinking about you and the fires recently..you guys have been hit lately.. with Mother Nature
Stay safe up there CF.

 

[CharlesU Farley]

We finally got some rain the night after I took this shot from the deck:

So glad we didn't have to bail!!

It's time to take a pause and re-group on this thread.

I've harvested all the plants from the last grow and they are pretty indicative of what you'd expect, given my lack of attention after the hurricane. But one of the very best things about developing cannabis is you get to start over from scratch, no matter how fucked up things were.

So the union of these two:

Produced this:

After a month or two in the refrigerator, I'll put these in dirt and they will be the next part of this project. Until then, I'm running production clones on a short veg cycle because Harley and I are going to Vegas in June to make up for the Hurricane canceled 35th anniversary vacation in September.

Beautiful day out, gonna go hit the hot tub and catch some rays to tan this old body to get ready for some desert heat. I'll leave ya'll with this part of a quotation from Nevil that I posted in another thread, to give ya'll something to think about:

The Cannabis Wisdom of Nevil

I've been thinking about doing this thread for quite a while but I've been very reluctant because of the virulent SamS versus Nevil feud that seems to spill over into every thread of this type. The title alone will be clickbait for the various trolls, sock puppets, and Karen-types that inhabit...

www.icmag.com

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"...The abilitity to breed a specimen that more closely approaches the ideal standard, more than any other.
So what's the ideal standard in cannabis? Well that's a question of perspective isn't it?

Different strokes for different folks sort of thing. But cutting through all the crap, it's about feeling! We smoke dope because it makes us feel different, and that's where we live. We live in the moment with our feelings (Ahhhh!) I know, I said the "F" word, but we have to face it. Our feelings generate thoughts. Our perception of the past is coloured by our feelings. When we are joyous, we can only remember the good things in our life and we know that we've had a charmed life and all possible futures seem rosey. And when we are despondent, we can only remember a life full of failure and death even seems like a blessing. It's who we are, creators creating a multiverse of different pasts and different futures from moment to moment to moment, all based on how we are feeling, and most of us don't even take responsibility for the feelings we have and therefore responsibility for the reality we create. OK, I'm starting to freak myself out, so back to the point.

What we smoke influences how we feel. The differences between us are, how we want to feel and where we are coming from. What we have in common, is that we wanted to change how we were feeling, which ultimately means that we were in some way experiencing some form of discomfort (pain), be it emotional pain, spiritual pain or physical pain. All pain is a consequence of not being in alignment with our natural selves. In smoking cannabis, we are using a herbal remedy. A natural remedy I might add. I personally see it as Gods gift to remind us of who we really are! The natural me likes to ponder these things..."

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It's really not that difficult to get cannabis to do what you want it to do, if you actually take the time to observe and _listen_ to the plant.

 

[JonnyWeedSeed]

CharlesU Farley, Nice thread. Been lurking. I'm in your neighborhood also and connect with your feelings about recent events around here. Keep your head up and keep growing!!