As some of you who read my "Damn You,Rez" thread on the Reservoir Seeds forum may know, I had a major man-made disaster in my grow room. A late-showing Princess Diesel male pollinated my entire room of 2 dozen young virgins, 12 strains in all. (my fault,entirely)
At first, I was naive enough to think I might have 4-5,000 seeds from this little mishap, but as I pick seeds, I now find the total magnitude of my misfortune. I have had seeds before, as I have one strain, a P-91, that is slightly hermi prone and I always get 6-30 seeds nearly every time I grow it. I have even purposely pollinated my Afghan Bullrider and AK-47 ladies with some PD pollen to get some experimental plants, only pollinating 1 or 2 buds at a time, resulting in 30-50 seeds.
I have now harvested and dried the plants and am starting to pick the seeds out, a tiresome chore for these arthritic old hands. From the 2 smallest plants, both Jedi, I have picked about 1500 seeds each. This leads me to believe that I may wind up with 35-40,000 seeds total, about half of them mature enough to germ. It is marvelous to see what can happen with a little pollen, 2 floor fans and 2 window a/cs blowing.
As I am a med grower and caregiver, I don't have time to test each variety for germination, flowering time, yield and medical properties of the buds. My major concern is to get meds to my patients, who are going to have slim pickings after this disaster. Fortunately, I had some ladies in veg ready to go for the next crop. Also fortunately, we have set up some of our patients as growers and I have some friends willing to grow out and test these new strains.
After the testing, I plan to send some freebies to Seedbay. I told Dutchgrown that I would probably send a couple thousand seeds to Seedbay. I may have to revise this. I wonder if Gypsy would like a years supply of freebies? LOL
This is such a pain in the hands(and ass) that I have often considered throwing the whole mess in the trash, but I would like to give back to this community that has provided so much growing info for me. I just wish that I had given more attention to the sections on recognition of male plants and the necessity of visiting your grow room every day and inspecting every plant.
Please don't take this thread as an offer for seeds. Do not ask me for free seeds, as the only offer I am making is to Seedbay. It is against forum guidelines to offer or ask for seeds or clones. I am only expressing some frustration here for the mistake that I made.
To all other newbies out there who grow from seed, check your plants every day and learn to recognize males at once. Chop their balls off immediately for violating the "Virgins only" rule for grow rooms. Do as Pops says, not as Pops does!
Hopefully, in the future, many of you can enjoy the fruits of my labor(and stupidity) in the 12 crosses I have made and the freebies you can get from Seedbay.
At first, I was naive enough to think I might have 4-5,000 seeds from this little mishap, but as I pick seeds, I now find the total magnitude of my misfortune. I have had seeds before, as I have one strain, a P-91, that is slightly hermi prone and I always get 6-30 seeds nearly every time I grow it. I have even purposely pollinated my Afghan Bullrider and AK-47 ladies with some PD pollen to get some experimental plants, only pollinating 1 or 2 buds at a time, resulting in 30-50 seeds.
I have now harvested and dried the plants and am starting to pick the seeds out, a tiresome chore for these arthritic old hands. From the 2 smallest plants, both Jedi, I have picked about 1500 seeds each. This leads me to believe that I may wind up with 35-40,000 seeds total, about half of them mature enough to germ. It is marvelous to see what can happen with a little pollen, 2 floor fans and 2 window a/cs blowing.
As I am a med grower and caregiver, I don't have time to test each variety for germination, flowering time, yield and medical properties of the buds. My major concern is to get meds to my patients, who are going to have slim pickings after this disaster. Fortunately, I had some ladies in veg ready to go for the next crop. Also fortunately, we have set up some of our patients as growers and I have some friends willing to grow out and test these new strains.
After the testing, I plan to send some freebies to Seedbay. I told Dutchgrown that I would probably send a couple thousand seeds to Seedbay. I may have to revise this. I wonder if Gypsy would like a years supply of freebies? LOL
This is such a pain in the hands(and ass) that I have often considered throwing the whole mess in the trash, but I would like to give back to this community that has provided so much growing info for me. I just wish that I had given more attention to the sections on recognition of male plants and the necessity of visiting your grow room every day and inspecting every plant.
Please don't take this thread as an offer for seeds. Do not ask me for free seeds, as the only offer I am making is to Seedbay. It is against forum guidelines to offer or ask for seeds or clones. I am only expressing some frustration here for the mistake that I made.
To all other newbies out there who grow from seed, check your plants every day and learn to recognize males at once. Chop their balls off immediately for violating the "Virgins only" rule for grow rooms. Do as Pops says, not as Pops does!
Hopefully, in the future, many of you can enjoy the fruits of my labor(and stupidity) in the 12 crosses I have made and the freebies you can get from Seedbay.
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