My Breeding Project

Also, when I said I culled runts earlier in the thread, I meant weak growers (flopping, stunting or general lack of vigor) and not slow growers. I actually prefer slow strong growers.

Well I'm in the middle of a medium sized pheno search of around 100 plants using the BX1 generation.

50+ mixed select outcross males from last year and 50+ of just my keeper male from last year. Just running through some stock looking for keepers and dumping any that even look at me wrong. Mother for all was the Topanga obviously.

I found this male in the BX1 generation in the group using my select outcross male (keeper male pictured on a previous post).

He looks a little different, but it's the terps that make him really stand out. It's like a bright sour bubblegum watermelon rose kinda thing that really is surprising. I think it's an exaggeration of a part of the Topanga range. I've smelled it on a few of the BX1's but this male has the smell much stronger and more complex. Not really what I would pick from looks, but terpines is what I follow and he's got the wow factor.

Just a few photos of the seedline to keep y'all entertained.

One of the chunkier Phenos I've been seeing in the seedline. Really stacks and has taken weeks of rain and rain still without a speck of mold. I'm definitely happy at how these are acclimating to the area. The Topanga makes unreal offspring and the BX1 shows a healthy amount of diversity which was something I was concerned of when making a BX. I didn't want to bottleneck the seedline to where recessive weaknesses would start surfacing. I don't see any weaknesses and am smelling Topanga type terps very strong. I am very happy with the direction so far...but all this is just preliminary thoughts before the smoke test.

And a larger structured and slightly later pheno.

And of course last but not least is another really nicely structured good smelling male that I'm really liking the look and most importantly smell of. Branches like a champ, I've already cut a majority of it off to double check the smell (open pollination with only a few select males so far). Any male that doesn't pass the smell test gets tossed. Same smell range as the other male I showed last but came in later. I like using a few keeper males in the simular direction that I'm aiming. Their differences although very slight give the seedline strength.

Some more.

Not sure why some phenos came out so purple. And the phenos pictured seem much more Indica sturctured/leaved than either parent used in the BX1. Looks like I matched up an interesting recessive in the pairing. This is a few days before harvest. Buds smell spot on like Topanga which is trippy to me because it is a very unique smell. Still waiting on the cure for the final test on these.

This pheno really has my attention. I really like the smell of this one. Extremely rare pheno.