Campo Cultivator
Well-Known Member
Hi guys
OK a bit nervous about posting here as I am a hobby breeder and only give my seeds away on competitions through my website growersguidetocannabis and don't really sell.... however breeding autos has become a passion of mine but so far I have I have only dipped my hand at non fems.
It all started about two years ago when for the first time I grew on some unfeminised mi5 seeds and ended up with a few males. That first time I did a simple straight cross with two similar plants and then got about 250 seeds I was bitten by the bug! Partly it was because this answered by problem of having sufficient autos to cover a square metre (obviously you can't keep them in veg growth to fill the space) without spending money I didn't have on large numbers of seeds. But mainly I think it is because we all want to create our own stamp on life and being quite a inquisitive and stubborn person I decided to have a go at it: do some reading and try and come up with my own little strains of autos.
Its been two years now crossing with standard unfemmed plants like White Widow, cream caramel, some super autos, northern lights and others and I have in the process probably about 5 decent auto strains either past the 5th cross or heading there.... to be honest I have been trying to keep it simple and over the next year if you guys don't mind I would like to start femming my strains and bring my efforts to some type of completion.
My most stable strain I have is what I have named "PETITE BLANCHE" and I've built this from the first cross of a MI5 (AUTO) with a standard white widow and the subsequent 5 crosses I have made were from the off spring.
The first cross weren't 100 % auto so I ended taking a auto male, collecting the pollen, then choosing my favorite auto female from the same batch and crossing.
It wasn't until the 3rd generation where I could say that the auto gene was fixed, as every time I do a 50 plant seed run I wait until they sex and choose my victims to carry on the line. On the 5th seed run I planted 100 seeds with a lucky 100% germination and a 100% auto characteristic: They are also uniform in height and flowering time. I chose 12 females from this batch and killed off the rest and grew them to harvest.
I was very happy.... in 7L pots I cropped approx- 28 grams of super Chrystal antiseptically smelling bud from each plant in a meter square space which is about 300 grams plus per meter.
only 2 genos I think...... 11 of one and a more sativa for the 1 plant which was different
Here's a pick of the my Petite Blanche (cross number 5) unseeded at 11 weeks
I had started a 6Th unfemmed cross but I had some issues with the plants when they were young so yield wise I was wasting my time as with the autos if you mess em up in the early stages they never get big enough to warrant the effort so I've decided to turn this run into a 100% femmed seed run only allowing the best females to be pollinated and dumping the rest in the garden it will only be a small seed crop of a few thousand im guessing but man I will be happy with that...
well that's the background information and I hope I haven't bored you all to death but I figured it was worth giving you the info so whatever advice you give me will be with some knowledge of the background make up of the strain
Day 28
OK i have 15 plants which are a bit on the small side for reasons I explained earlier but they will be fine for a small crop of seed. I think I will be selecting 6 of the healthiest and leaving them in the room with my vegetating Liberty haze grow as any pollen won't hurt these.
As you will see by the photo I'm also a bit of a LED nut and I'm using Fero LED lights (the AF-600) which I think is a top notch system (hahaha plug over
)
I've had a bit of a mag deficiency with the plants as well but i've put that right now so here's my Petite Blanche after being spayed for the first time with 30ppm colloidal silver. I hope I haven't left it too late and she Hermies quickly
I will post updates every couple of days for the next two weeks as and when there are any signs of a male flower appearing.
I will be spraying the 30ppm colloidal silver every day for the next two weeks to see if I can change her sex. Just in case I have a male outside as a emergency back up so if I can't change her at least I will be able to do a standard seed run.
tx for popping in guys any advice will be very much appreciated
OK a bit nervous about posting here as I am a hobby breeder and only give my seeds away on competitions through my website growersguidetocannabis and don't really sell.... however breeding autos has become a passion of mine but so far I have I have only dipped my hand at non fems.
It all started about two years ago when for the first time I grew on some unfeminised mi5 seeds and ended up with a few males. That first time I did a simple straight cross with two similar plants and then got about 250 seeds I was bitten by the bug! Partly it was because this answered by problem of having sufficient autos to cover a square metre (obviously you can't keep them in veg growth to fill the space) without spending money I didn't have on large numbers of seeds. But mainly I think it is because we all want to create our own stamp on life and being quite a inquisitive and stubborn person I decided to have a go at it: do some reading and try and come up with my own little strains of autos.
Its been two years now crossing with standard unfemmed plants like White Widow, cream caramel, some super autos, northern lights and others and I have in the process probably about 5 decent auto strains either past the 5th cross or heading there.... to be honest I have been trying to keep it simple and over the next year if you guys don't mind I would like to start femming my strains and bring my efforts to some type of completion.
My most stable strain I have is what I have named "PETITE BLANCHE" and I've built this from the first cross of a MI5 (AUTO) with a standard white widow and the subsequent 5 crosses I have made were from the off spring.
The first cross weren't 100 % auto so I ended taking a auto male, collecting the pollen, then choosing my favorite auto female from the same batch and crossing.
It wasn't until the 3rd generation where I could say that the auto gene was fixed, as every time I do a 50 plant seed run I wait until they sex and choose my victims to carry on the line. On the 5th seed run I planted 100 seeds with a lucky 100% germination and a 100% auto characteristic: They are also uniform in height and flowering time. I chose 12 females from this batch and killed off the rest and grew them to harvest.
I was very happy.... in 7L pots I cropped approx- 28 grams of super Chrystal antiseptically smelling bud from each plant in a meter square space which is about 300 grams plus per meter.
only 2 genos I think...... 11 of one and a more sativa for the 1 plant which was different
Here's a pick of the my Petite Blanche (cross number 5) unseeded at 11 weeks
I had started a 6Th unfemmed cross but I had some issues with the plants when they were young so yield wise I was wasting my time as with the autos if you mess em up in the early stages they never get big enough to warrant the effort so I've decided to turn this run into a 100% femmed seed run only allowing the best females to be pollinated and dumping the rest in the garden it will only be a small seed crop of a few thousand im guessing but man I will be happy with that...
well that's the background information and I hope I haven't bored you all to death but I figured it was worth giving you the info so whatever advice you give me will be with some knowledge of the background make up of the strain
Day 28
OK i have 15 plants which are a bit on the small side for reasons I explained earlier but they will be fine for a small crop of seed. I think I will be selecting 6 of the healthiest and leaving them in the room with my vegetating Liberty haze grow as any pollen won't hurt these.
As you will see by the photo I'm also a bit of a LED nut and I'm using Fero LED lights (the AF-600) which I think is a top notch system (hahaha plug over
)I've had a bit of a mag deficiency with the plants as well but i've put that right now so here's my Petite Blanche after being spayed for the first time with 30ppm colloidal silver. I hope I haven't left it too late and she Hermies quickly
I will post updates every couple of days for the next two weeks as and when there are any signs of a male flower appearing.
I will be spraying the 30ppm colloidal silver every day for the next two weeks to see if I can change her sex. Just in case I have a male outside as a emergency back up so if I can't change her at least I will be able to do a standard seed run.
tx for popping in guys any advice will be very much appreciated
