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Shiva Grows
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Sparkie is a great climber too! He has some serious ups, and is always up in to top of my closet or sleeping on the stack of boxes of emergency long-term storage food.
We had a bunch of cats in the neighborhood, but thankfully one of my neighbors worked on rounding them up and taking them in for spay and neuter! There are a couple cats but haven't seen any trouble makers. He loves to go out at night, but he goes out in the yard all day with the dogs too.
I was driving in another neighborhood in town yesterday morning not too early, between 9 and 10, there was a fox limping around with one of his back legs hurt going through back yards looking for something to eat. We see a few foxes roaming though from time to time, a few raccoons out there too.
I've heard of the bangi congo, Some of the great breeders like Charlie and Tom Hill are starting to go into retirement, now its up to us to continue the lines!
Have you tried Cinderella 99? Its a sativa dominant fast flowering decent yielding plant. Grew Deep Chunk x C99 (Powerhouse by Hill Temple Collective) and it was a great resin profile and had good vigor.
We had a bunch of cats in the neighborhood, but thankfully one of my neighbors worked on rounding them up and taking them in for spay and neuter! There are a couple cats but haven't seen any trouble makers. He loves to go out at night, but he goes out in the yard all day with the dogs too.
I was driving in another neighborhood in town yesterday morning not too early, between 9 and 10, there was a fox limping around with one of his back legs hurt going through back yards looking for something to eat. We see a few foxes roaming though from time to time, a few raccoons out there too.
I've heard of the bangi congo, Some of the great breeders like Charlie and Tom Hill are starting to go into retirement, now its up to us to continue the lines!
Have you tried Cinderella 99? Its a sativa dominant fast flowering decent yielding plant. Grew Deep Chunk x C99 (Powerhouse by Hill Temple Collective) and it was a great resin profile and had good vigor.
shiva82
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i will be trying it. i doubt charlie would ever entertain c99 but i thought i would give her a go. Its from jack herer hermie stock originally? and then outcrossed and backcrossed . it's not exactly pinnacle in breeding but it does have some great aromas and flavours . i have only smoked c99 20 years ago, and i enoyed it
i have never grown anything from tom hill but i have read many of his posts and listened to him and he has great experience . i remember him growing giant trees back in the day
i have never grown anything from tom hill but i have read many of his posts and listened to him and he has great experience . i remember him growing giant trees back in the day
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sounds like a girl I used to go out with...
I don't know where the caviar came from but it's lime peel/zest
Keeping with that theme, next will be Dirty Pam..
Yeah thats kind of the idea I got about C99, its not the best of the best, but a pretty solid smoke early finishing sativa. Tom Hill has some good inbred lines, he was working and growing with another local who was a chemist in his previous career. The chemist had collected a bunch of great lines and Tom did as well.
shiva82
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the "best " is subjective . it was a great smoke the bit i tried many years ago . little money in breeding , seems a dieing trade where they are barely rewarded
I like Tom Hill's lines because he tries to get pure forms of the cultivar or landrace and preserve these inbred lines for good breeding tools. He and his friends growing up around Humboldt read Robert Clark's 'Marijuana Botany'. The book discusses transgressive segregation which occurs at highest frequency when you hybridize 2 mostly homozygous inbred lines to get mostly heterozygous offspring.
Heterozygous plants have hybrid vigor and you can find plants especially at F2 stage that show traits that fall outside the range of either parent.
This is how we can breed to get improved higher potency lines of cannabis.
Heterozygous plants have hybrid vigor and you can find plants especially at F2 stage that show traits that fall outside the range of either parent.
This is how we can breed to get improved higher potency lines of cannabis.
shiva82
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gregor Mendel techniques. classic. Tom only sold heirloom ibls and true breeding hybrids?if so , then that is how it should be done. did he add thai to his haze lines or did someone else? can't go wrong with a good old f1 from true p1 stock
Mendel was curious about how traits were transferred from one generation to the next, so he set out to understand the principles of heredity in the mid-1860s. Peas were a good model system, because he could easily control their fertilization by transferring pollen with a small paintbrush. This pollen could come from the same flower (self-fertilization), or it could come from another plant's flowers (cross-fertilization). First, Mendel observed plant forms and their offspring for two years as they self-fertilized, or "selfed," and ensured that their outward, measurable characteristics remained constant in each generation. During this time, Mendel observed seven different characteristics in the pea plants, and each of these characteristics had two forms (Figure 3). The characteristics included height (tall or short), pod shape (inflated or constricted), seed shape (smooth or winkled), pea color (green or yellow), and so on. In the years Mendel spent letting the plants self, he verified the purity of his plants by confirming, for example, that tall plants had only tall children and grandchildren and so forth. Because the seven pea plant characteristics tracked by Mendel were consistent in generation after generation of self-fertilization, these parental lines of peas could be considered pure-breeders (or, in modern terminology, homozygous for the traits of interest). Mendel and his assistants eventually developed 22 varieties of pea plants with combinations of these consistent characteristics.
Mendel not only crossed pure-breeding parents, but he also crossed hybrid generations and crossed the hybrid progeny back to both parental lines. These crosses (which, in modern terminology, are referred to as F1, F1 reciprocal, F2, B1, and B2) are the classic crosses to generate genetically hybrid generations.
Mendel was curious about how traits were transferred from one generation to the next, so he set out to understand the principles of heredity in the mid-1860s. Peas were a good model system, because he could easily control their fertilization by transferring pollen with a small paintbrush. This pollen could come from the same flower (self-fertilization), or it could come from another plant's flowers (cross-fertilization). First, Mendel observed plant forms and their offspring for two years as they self-fertilized, or "selfed," and ensured that their outward, measurable characteristics remained constant in each generation. During this time, Mendel observed seven different characteristics in the pea plants, and each of these characteristics had two forms (Figure 3). The characteristics included height (tall or short), pod shape (inflated or constricted), seed shape (smooth or winkled), pea color (green or yellow), and so on. In the years Mendel spent letting the plants self, he verified the purity of his plants by confirming, for example, that tall plants had only tall children and grandchildren and so forth. Because the seven pea plant characteristics tracked by Mendel were consistent in generation after generation of self-fertilization, these parental lines of peas could be considered pure-breeders (or, in modern terminology, homozygous for the traits of interest). Mendel and his assistants eventually developed 22 varieties of pea plants with combinations of these consistent characteristics.
Mendel not only crossed pure-breeding parents, but he also crossed hybrid generations and crossed the hybrid progeny back to both parental lines. These crosses (which, in modern terminology, are referred to as F1, F1 reciprocal, F2, B1, and B2) are the classic crosses to generate genetically hybrid generations.
shiva82
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Big Meech has been out much longer than usual and i have just been searching for her. i think another neighbour has snared her into their house. hopefully she turns up soon . starting to worry a bit. someone has a bag of "dreamies" and has kidnapped her is my thoughts
aliceklar
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Cool.
I've still got so many landraces and strains to try, and I'm making seed with most of what I grow so I've got a shitload of different projects going on. So yeah I'm not buying more seeds either!Grafted plants are doing fine - though some grafts got shaded out by more pushy sisters..
