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Earth Juice...juice of the Earth...what miracles await the human experience that you can buy in a gallon jug.
Blue Orca is a F1 cut from 1984.....NLH is an F2 male from 1991.
I think Coot describes the origins of these types somewhere in this thread,but good luck searching page after page with so much chit chat yada yada bla bla my cock is bigger than yours shit we do here.....
Anyway...
I've done more crosses with TO than BO...and there's one thing I'm seeing from the only 3 BO crosses compared to the many crosses done with TO.
TO seems to have offspring with phenotypes that vary greatly....while BO produces offspring that look much more uniform.
The BO x BMR line was gifted to Mr.Greengenes who will no doubt do some work on it. After the first few beans yeilded a female with a shaggy appearance that he seemed to really dig.....he named the cross 'Cousin It'....S. Cal.
The BO x Cherry Bomb looks pretty uniform as well...beans were sent to testers who describe better uniformity than the TO crosses.
Sooooooooo it is again with these BO x NLH.......I'd say that the BO is more stable for breeding than TO....but that's not to say that out of all the TO crosses you aren't going to find something phenomenal.
As for seed for donation to server fund.....
I am working on a couple lines for that,which if all goes well should be ready next year...mainly a TO x BMR Bx....AKA 'Kasmala Moon' and the Kali Mist x Burmese/Cherry Bomb...AKA 'Vandana Shiva'
Maybe the Space Cheese/BMR x (Cheesquake x Space cheese/BMR) as well...we'll call that 'Moonpuppy' for short.
I will not breed with F1 plants (that I make myself) that are PM prone or plants that suck in any way ....so this takes a while to find parents with the traits I expect combined with that PM resistance .with the exception of Subcools bullshit...that TGA shit always gets PM...right outta the seed~
I search for decent yields,pleasant effect,,strong stemmed,disease resistant,resin coated,flowers that are not too dense..or too loose,colorful,smelly,easy trimming,great bag appeal,and a fair flowering range.
If anyone want's to find out whether or not a plant is PM resistant....grow it in the PNW and you'll know in a week or two...easy.
The NLH is PM resistant and known for it's high yield,Haze effect,and hybrid vigor.
The Blue Orca is known to me a s serious medicine...just top notch medicine really..1 hit and 'well being' becomes you. BO is not exactly PM resistant.
It looks like the BO x NLH F1 kids are loaded with some killer vigor...these are strong and fast beautiful plants....already some want out of the 1 gallon pots a week later.
This qualifies as Polyhybrid...yet the arrangement of this type of poly makes it special. The parents,although being of mixed origin...are not a massive bunch of types mixed together in a closet over the years...these are undisturbed by pollen chuckers. They exhibit more of a hybrid trait....no selections were done past Coot or Neville with these two parents....both qualify as pre-1990 genetics....with documented origins back beyond the 80's.
So....the few people that have the beans will notice what I did the first time I tested 4 females. Half were PM resistant and all had a bit of stretch in flower,but I would call that average.
Plants have a sativa dominant profile regardless of the fat leaves that the two strong ass Indica's put in the mix. Super sweet lemon smell.....like Lemonheads candy.
Sativa type smoke...which I preferred this smoke over any heavier Indica in my jugz for sure...such as TO herself..or TO x BMR.
I'd say it's something like a 60% sativa/40% Indica....or thereabouts.
As for releasing BO x NLH seed....I dunno man..I don't feel that's my call.
^thisI'm very well trained to think of this in terms of hemp - but it translates to crops that every Western human spends about 40 hours a week trying to get money to pay someone else for.
^ this toowhat I CAN say with certainty is that adding humic material cleared up all my 'nute lockout' problems (by adding CE sites), and I've never had to look back. Haven't seen my Hanna in about 9 moths.
This answers my question, but what I don't get is; wouldn't that be an F3 BO x NLH, unless each had been stabilized by back crossing into a true breeding line?It looks like the BO x NLH F1 kids are loaded with some killer vigor...these are strong and fast beautiful plants....already some want out of the 1 gallon pots a week later.
This qualifies as Polyhybrid...yet the arrangement of this type of poly makes it special. The parents,although being of mixed origin...are not a massive bunch of types mixed together in a closet over the years...these are undisturbed by pollen chuckers. They exhibit more of a hybrid trait....no selections were done past Coot or Neville with these two parents....both qualify as pre-1990 genetics....with documented origins back beyond the 80's.
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This answers my question, but what I don't get is; wouldn't that be an F3 BO x NLH, unless each had been stabilized by back crossing into a true breeding line?
This is the piece of breeding I am still trying to wrap my head around...
OK, I thought that those were s1, s2, s3 etc, and that was how you took a heterozygous f1 and made it into a homozygous pure bred. Then you can take two homozygous purebreds and make an f1...
I wonder how it would work saving pollen from the original male and pollenating subsequent generations of females hypothetically speaking.
When I was a kid I created a pure black tail fancy guppy by breeding the original male with his daughter > granddaughter > great granddaughter > great great grandaughter
> great great great granddaughter.... did not keep my notes so can't remember how many generations it took to get almost all blacks. Mad scientist even then.
The reverse backcross.?
I've thought about that...considering that I have and keep alive the original 1991 F2 NLH male.
There's guys out here on IC that know a hell of a lot more than I do about this stuff....namely those who know and understand or live and breathe Mendel's law.
Chimera has a good understanding of these things...and will actually give you tips if he's in a good mood.....as does Mr. Greengenes....and what's that other guy's name...Tom...something..??
Since Mendel's time, scientists have discovered chromosomes and DNA. We now interpret the Principle of Independent Assortment as alleles of genes on different chromosomes are inherited independently during the formation of gametes. This was not known to Mendel.
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookgenintro.html
That is why I generally don't breed, unfortunately, or even go strain hunting anymore since a few "feminized" debacles. I don't have access to the space outdoors and don't want huge numbers of non production plants on a tiny indoor setup...
I can honestly say I have never once paid for seeds or a clone until a few months ago, when I split a 5 pack of TGA Subcool Chernobyl at a festival that was $50, mainly because I liked the kid selling the beans and wanted to support him. The reason I got them was to inbreed a strong male a few generations for studding.
I have 4 females and a male. I am making seeds to find a strong male, which I will backcross to the strongest female out of the first 4, then repeat for several generations. Not having access to true breeding landraces, I figure that stabilizing a strain for a few generations looking for strong males is my next best bet to get my f1 Deep Funk from Bodhi (Sour D x Deep Chunk) into seed form and have a pure breeding male to make f1s with in the future if I ever get a true breeding female, (if one even exists anymore).
The plants are all being grown indoors under window light, at a top secret offsite location lol, and it is really just an experiment to get some seed stock together "for an emergency" or possibly to go play Johnny Appleseed with, who knows....
What any of these ingredients would provide for pH up or down is mystifying to say the least.
CC
EJ catalyst straight out of the bottle the PH is around 4.
Dyna ProTekt Silicate if used at 1/2 tsp per gal makes my ph above 8
So why is it that when I was only using straight water this summer, my plants showed me that the PH of my water had changed by showing lock out defs? Everything was fine then suddenly there were problems. I was stumped cause my soil was on point, ACT was used regularly. Checked the water PH it was 5.1 started adjusting the PH and bam, things were back on track. Maybe I didnt have enough biological activity in the soil? Ill get to reading the rest of the responses and see what I can figure out...
Thanks for the reply.
What type of water were you using? Treated city water or well/rain???