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GuppyGirl posted an update in the group
2 months agoAsk a Grow Question Okay! Now that my Real Buckets are all assembled, I still have the problem of what comes next.
- Take the Clones of both plants. This honestly has me nervous AF. I need to build or buy the water contraption they go in with light, water, neuts, etc. I can take all the clones in the world, but I don’t want to leave them sitting in still water. I need a proper environment for them to have the best chance of growing roots and being available for either my next run in the Real Buckets or perhaps aquaculture/aquaponics/hydroponics. Hey, at least I will have plenty of backups for what is about to go into 12/12 for Flower. I have an insane amount of trimming to do on one of the plants. I bet I get 20 clones easily. Maybe more. It’s huge, and I need to top it as soon as I’m confident I can take that top and clone it. This thing is going to bush out like mad.
- Decide what to do with the hyper-stretchy seedlings. Honestly, I was going to trash these. I’m glad I didn’t as one of them is standing up tall, and growing healthy leaves! I’m so relieved! The other one still looks like it’s trying despite its ill health. I’m unsure what to do with it, to be honest, but it’s not like it’s costing me anything to let it sit there either, so I’ll let it go another week. Perhaps with a little more time, it will recover as well and be available! I’m super excited to try it. Both are the Kalashnikova strain from the ever-popular Green House Seed Co. that I thought were not going to make it at all. Even if only the first makes it, I can always do a full run of six clones at a time in the buckets. 😀 I’m going to enjoy this no matter what I do. But honestly, I’m also really relieved. Those seeds are $8.40 US, and I’m glad I didn’t end up having to flush nearly $17 worth of seeds. Not that I’m worried about it, but I like to be successful in what I do! LOL
- So this brings us to what, specifically to do next. I can easily take clone backups of both of the current vegging plants. They’re in week 8 and healthy-ish. I’m scared to trim them because I’m afraid of taking too much and killing the plant. This is an area where more research is needed before I start taking clones. I’ve never done it before so I’m just not confident about not killing them. Of course, doing that but getting clones is more of a delay than a failure. It would also give the seedlings time to catch up, but it would be longer before I get to stop smoking gross Illinois dispensary weed. Of course, I can also hopefully figure out how many buckets I need to keep me in cannabis until my next grow. For example, if I only need 2 plants… That leaves me buckets to plan with for research purposes. I could completely isolate 2 buckets and intentionally STS one plant to pollinate the other. 😀 I can isolate 2 or more buckets of the same or different strains – I can do crosses! Which brings me to:
- Run the Purple Heart seeds I got from the wonderful Rasta Jeff! The idea here is, that I’m going to STS one plant in isolation, but when it starts producing pollen, introduce one or both of the other plants (after taking backups) to make seeds. I kinda like the idea of taking several clones from each, including the donor, to play mix and match with its genetics later. I want to make these available to vets and dependants of vets. I’m a Vet myself. Vets need to support Vets. There are only 3 of them, so I could easily run the free seeds I got from Scotty, but they’re auto-flowering and I don’t want to mix Auto’s with Non-Auto’s at the same time. Could result in some weird crosses, but that’s a level of breeding I’m not interested in tackling right now. I also have various free seeds that have come with various orders. I could easily pop 6 entirely different strains at a time as well if I want now! The choices, while not endless, are plentiful! I could run all kinds of crazy experiments. One I want to do is, cross everything with A.M.S. Give the other strains I cross it with some better immunity, and then move on to do other crosses from there once I have the first one stabilized. That’s what is going to be the hardest about this. How do you hunt for unique phenotypes (really, shouldn’t that be genotypes?) if you only get to grow out 3 or 4 different seeds at a time? I’m going to start working on a way to get a new type of license in Illinois – one for strain designers. I want 100 plants at a time to properly hunt. That would be amazing.
So many amazing choices, and I have SO many amazing strains to play with now. What do you think I should do? If you made it this far, thank you! Let me know what you would do if you had these choices!
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How many Real Buckets did you get and how do you plan the isolate them? I started a thread asking for ideas for using the Real Buckets if your interested in posting your experience or any other useful information that may help promote information sharing and support the Real buckets.
I’m going to start my first run using a 4 Real buckets system in a couple of weeks and was wondering what other people are doing with the Real Buckets.
I see you’re from ILL, I was born and raised in Chicago.
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When starting seedling you wanna be sure they grow healthy during the first month, sounds obvious, but for growing one plant to finnish is different than growing a branch that will be reproduced by clone or seed, for example you don’t want to be runningnarunt while you think it is the real deal, growing at least three is better ’cause you get to compare them if they where sown at the same time, at this point it is not realy pheno-hunting yet…it could be soil born disease that compromised a seedling, so ya just like all forms of life, you want to get them started as near perfect plants for them to be good for life, so you can check your priorities wtth those seedlings you find slow, are they all the same, maybe one is better than the other, ’cause at the very first stage you may se some differences, but then after two weeks there should not be many observable differences. You mensionned crossing with AMS for resistance, that is a good idea, just keep the seed production as a sideline until you gain more experience, theoreticaly we should always reproduce perfectly healthy plants and that is an art in itself. Between ’94 and ’04, my first decade of growing was not yearly, i had a chance to do 5 or 6 grows, during that period i alredy did a couple of hybrids, but were grown out just once, and they tured me on…it took three outrcosses to create my family’s forefather, not enough seed was produced, then a couple of years i did a cross with AMS, nicknamed Bamboo AMS, the four foot plant in my vege garden was half loaded with seeds and was stollen alive, they dug her out and put the rrotball in a bag… i guess i had been loud about doing seeds, luckily i had a small plant hidden in a pot nearby with the same seeds and the story go3s on…i don’t know if you realise that stabilisation means growin out six generations of inbread plants, it just does not happen anymore, you need several hundred plants per generation, anyway, keep growing and learning, cause over time everything will be more comprehensive
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@froggy-selects thank you! That was very helpful!
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