Elk River (GG4/Choc D. x 79 X-mas)

GenericEnigma

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Apparently, I've been working on a breeding project the last few years. Didn't really mean to. Just wanted to make some free seeds and practice technique.

Been gardening for a dozen years, became a ganja planter six years ago. Still pretty new, so I welcome any comments or advice.

Practiced on bagseed, then found some genetics I was looking for. The irony? I bought two packs of seeds to get this freebie.

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Popped five seeds, reserving five. Got four females and one male. Pollinated each female.

One plant stretched like crazy. Tasted like petunias and bland coffee. But the high - oh, the high. Euphoric, energizing, and it had legs (plant at back-right). All day smoke, clear-headed and strong.

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The fan leaves were like plastic, and the sugar leaves were thick and greasy.

So I planted some of those seeds. That is when I first started to realize I might want to stabilize a real keeper out of these Useful genetics.
 

GenericEnigma

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Those seeds grew some good weed.

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Nothing phenomenal, but one of them gives the same high (back-left). Tastes like a floral bouquet. Sometimes I don't smoke it because I don't want to do 50 chores!

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Today I am ready to plant seeds, and I want to get back into the euphoria project. Gonna call it Elk River for now. Deciding if I want to press on with the F3, or back off to the F2 (if we consider the freebie pack as F1s). I'm likely to pursue the F3, since I'm curious what it will bring.

The ultimate plan is to find an awesome keeper and cube it. So far I have been choosing males that grow and look like the females I like, just doing straight crosses. I may have to expand my scope so I can really narrow it down - doing things like keeping male clones and whatnot. Man, what an undertaking if I get into it that far.
 

GenericEnigma

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Talking about that old pheno got me thinking. The F2 seeds from it were not dried and stored properly. They got moldy, but I caught it in time (probably 50% germ rate, if you can call that "in time"). I want to make new seeds, and I'll explore new phenos while I'm at it.

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I'll plant the F3s soon, too. Got a couple other grows/projects winding down.

As much as I like this Elk River, it's practice for my ultimate goal of crossing some ACE Malawi with some AKBB Purest Indica. Preserving/expanding the PI right now, haven't cracked the ACE pack.
 

FmSwayze

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Apparently, I've been working on a breeding project the last few years. Didn't really mean to. Just wanted to make some free seeds and practice technique.

Been gardening for a dozen years, became a ganja planter six years ago. Still pretty new, so I welcome any comments or advice.

Practiced on bagseed, then found some genetics I was looking for. The irony? I bought two packs of seeds to get this freebie.

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Popped five seeds, reserving five. Got four females and one male. Pollinated each female.

One plant stretched like crazy. Tasted like petunias and bland coffee. But the high - oh, the high. Euphoric, energizing, and it had legs (plant at back-right). All day smoke, clear-headed and strong.

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The fan leaves were like plastic, and the sugar leaves were thick and greasy.

So I planted some of those seeds. That is when I first started to realize I might want to stabilize a real keeper out of these Useful genetics.
Beautiful! Useful has fire for sure, currently running his BOO S2.
 
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