First harvest of my breeding project

A few of you may remember my breeding project I was working on, I had the first harvest not long ago and never posted pics. This is definitely the female for the project after running around 150 landrace seeds I acquired from my buddy that was in Pakistan. It's not a big harvest as that wasn't the point, I was looking for genetic purpling no matter the temps and I wanted to see what she could endure. I never went below 72 and went as high as 82 to see how'd she'd handle it. I pushed pushed her limits as far as feeding goes and she did great.

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Very nice, it one of the reasons she made the cut. I'm not sure if you saw my other thread a while back but I talked a little about what it was I was after. I started with 150 seeds and wanted both male and female phenos , I narrowed it down to 2 purple phenos and a green one. The other purple hash more of a hash plant smell, this one smells just like blackberry jam with a hint of hash plant. It's in jars now but all through drying up until now the smell has not went away. I have yet to sample it, hopefully it nice.

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I'll definitely report back, thanks for checking her out.

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She's definitely a looker, I'm excited to see what I can do with her. I have a few things in mind, one will be 100% Indica, another will have some sativa influence as I have a landrace grown by the Zulu people of Africa. It flowers in 50ish days, it grows very similar to ak47

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This year will be 20 years since I grew my first plant indoors, as indoor growing took off I noticed a trend of strains going for less odor, shorter and quick flowering times. Back then we didn't have the availability of filters and lighting we have today. A lot of the old school genetics were LOUD, the original Skunk could be smelled from a mile away, like roadkill. Well lately breeders have been trying to get get some of that back but are focusing purely on terpenes and not esters that work synergistically together to get these crazy profiles. I always assumed breeders had these crazy facilities with 1000's of plants, after meeting some I realized they were no different than me. Subcool for example made his most famous strains in a tent at his house. I said if they could do it so could I, I started reading, experimenting and reaching out to some old timers. I made my first planned hybrid in 07 with an Indica pheno serious seeds bubblegum and Northern Lights, it turned out great. I sent some seeds to friends and sold a few packs on seed bay with nice reviews. Since then I've grown tired of all the cookies, glue, and other flavors of the week. There is a world of genetics out there, especially if you can unlock some of the recessive genes that only come out through breeding.

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It's a fun hobby, don't be afraid to experiment.

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That is beautiful, good job. I've made quite a fem seeds myself, it can be very rewarding. If you really want to unlock some potential and find some hidden recessive traits, find a strain you like breed them and then make f2's. It takes two carriers of recessive genes to make them come out so at f2 you will see some. This is how autos work, you take an auto breed it with the photo that you want to auto, at f1 they will all be photo but they will carry the now recessive auto gene, at f2 you will have around 25% photo plants, breed these and at f3 you will have some nice full autos to choose from.

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Most of the pollination I do is selective, unless you are selling them I have no use for 500 f1's

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