So i need to stop and rethink this over. Ok I'm done. lol
Bare with me here. I took Berry pollen and dusted an AKR. Now I have BKR F1 seeds which I am growing out a few now.
Let's start over....
F1
1. I have fem BKR F1 seeds. Now I need to grow out 11 or so (in a tote HLG - hit up bf80255) and hit one of these with TMist.
2. Take that pollen and dust all 10 plants. At this point I have 10 seeded plants. I will take notes until harvest.
Now I have 10 lots of seeds. Now in those 10 plants I find one that is overly "Frosty" and just love the thing. These seeds are F2
F2
Now I have a lot of F2 seeds from the "Frosty" plant.
Now I need to grow out 11 or so and hit one of these with TMist.
Take that pollen and dust all 10 plants. At this point I have 10 seeded plants. I will take notes until harvest.
Now I have 10 lots of seeds. Now in those 10 plants I find one that has black hairs and frosty and just love the thing. These seeds are F3
F3
Now I have a lot of F3 seeds that include black hairs and is frosty.
Say I want to stop there. I have the frosty buds with black hairs. Now what?
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Basically everything after "F1" is a question because I don't know what I am talking about, but I am getting excited. I just used 10 plants for simple minds like mine.
Am I close???
Once you find a plant with all the traits you are looking for, you can just keep selfing it for several generations until the strain is stable and all of its offspring are the same pheno.
What main monogenetic traits (ones that are either on or off, such as purple or green) do you want the new strain to have?
Start by trying to stabilize those traits. Then you can move on to ones that are controlled by multiple genes, such as overall plant structure and potency.
From what your said, it sounds like you want a plant that is a mix between BR and AKR, leaning on the BR side, that has a small amount of pistils, and smells like one of your bkr's.
That's 3 things. From what you've said about the pistil formation and density, it may be a simple trait to stabilize, especially since you say it is more like the BR than the AKR, and that's what you want to be dominant anyway. You also don't have a single chosen smell preference, which means you don't have to redo the entire stabilizing process that you did for the pistil formation, for the smell as well. if you do come across one smell that stands out, you can always do a few generations of selfing, or backcross and work your way up again. Just make sure you don't undo your previous work in your backcross, by choosing a plant that will scramble the pistil formation and berry Ryder dominance. Try to use a plant from the closest generation that is as close to the other parent as possible, to save time.
I would personally take your bkr f1's and grow out a small bunch like you are doing. Then find the one with the best pistil structure, and cross it with a pure BR (try to save some of this pollen for the next one or two generations as well, so you don't introduce new genes in when you backcross to BR, since not every BR is the same).
All of those offspring will be f1 bkr's ((BR x AKR) x BR), but unlike your current batch of f1's they should be 75:25 BR:AKR instead of 50:50.
Grow out a small bunch of these new f1's, and see if they are BR dominant enough for you. If not, cross the one with the most desirable pistil structure, with the stored BR pollen from the last cross. Basically repeating the last step. This time, the new f1's will be 87.5/12.5 BR/AKR.
When you are happy with the Berry Ryder dominance in the f1's, cross two f1's together, or self one.
This is when (f2) you should see a lot of variation.
((BR x AKR ) x BR)) x ((BR x AKR) x BR)) = f2 *different phenotype a will show up here.
Select your favorite f2 with a small amount of pistils, and self it.
At this point (f3), you should have pretty uniform pistil production on all the offspring. The other traits will all be varying still, tho.
What you'll want to do here, is pick the offspring that smells the best,!-'d self it, cross it with another offspring that has the same smell, or cross two different ones, if you like multiple smells and don't have a preference which makes it to the final strain. This will create your f4's.
Then just continue inbreeding until you hit f7 or so, and your strain will be very stable. You can get decent stability for some traits sooner than f7, but for the plants to be almost completely uniform, you'll want to try to get to at least f7.
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then repeat when crossing the siblings
