sounds like you are going back to the future with the bubblegum & NL lol, nothing wrong with those golden oldies man, you got a good cross section of different varieties there, ive got an unopened pack of thseeds bubblegum ive gotta grow out within the next 4yrs im guessing cos they are getting bit old, looking forward to your journal easty!
Lol, yeah trying to bro, I loved those strains back in the day, would love to find those gems again!! I'm not holding much hope with the NL 5 though, the seeds are pretty old I think. None out of the 4 had popped when I left this morning and they've been in paper towel since saturday. Almost all the others are above dirt...ah well, dems da breaks. Won't buy BCSC seeds again!
yes it turns a person off a bank when none germinate from a full pack, same happened to me with white label white widow over 10yrs ago, first & last pack for me of the white label lol, can laugh now but it actually ruined my season cos i was gonna use the WW in a cross, didnt have much else ready at the time
Yeah it sure does man. Worst part is, I've used them for almost 20 years and my favourite strain is from them, which I still have 5 beans left of. There is absolutely no info on them on the net at all which makes me think they dont exist anymore and these seeds are probably 10+ years old. I don't get why the big banks are carrying old stock. I bought 2 packs from different banks, one from midweek song and one from seed city, none of them popped, not even cracked the shell! Has to be old seeds, the rest of my beans are up above soil already!
yes maybe the banks just dont want to throw them out & just let them sit there until someone eventually buys them? trouble too with the golden oldies soo many of them eventually go south in terms of quality of genetics, time after time im reading here on RIU people growing out newly bought packs of the likes of AK47/romulan/MK Ultra etc & they turn out to be mere shadows of their illustrious forebears, im a bit leery to purchase those classics now unless i hear solid recent grow reports from someone else
I reckon you hit the nail on the head mate, a lot of them are shadows of their former selves! I'll try popping these last NL x blueberry from BCSC and if they don't pop, no more for me!!
hi man, im still shucking the beans out of the buds, slow mind numbing job but im glad im doing it really, been a lot of years since ive done a good chuck lol, it will be about another month before i finish shucking, christ that sucks with the BCC, tahoe og & NL5 not poppin? never really know whats gonna pop sometimes? looking forward to seeing your journal kick on too bro, & i was lookin at some wookies somewhere online recently & i saw real fire in that one, i reckon anything crossed with it will be solid gear, im on the lookout for anything crossed with it! cheers easty
Ah yeah, that fun time of sorting beans, always a killer ha ha. I usually just dry the buds right out and put them through a sieve, the weed comes out finely chopped and the seeds stay on top!
Nice!! So dark and fat
im just looking & hoping for lots of dank beans man, ive found that its best to chuck pollen at as many different strains as possible cos some genes just dont mix, have had crosses in the past with some females being fully loaded with just empty white seed husks where the genes were incompatible, not 1 fertile bean? i need lots of beans cos root rot disease here sometimes wipes out everything i plant many times over, only just discovered mycorrhizal/trichodermal treatment for root rot & havnt been able to grow in pots for 14yrs, disease killed everything in pots quickly for all those yrs...now with myco/tricho treatments i can grow in pots again!!!...so happy days are here again!, and lots of breeding gonna happen now with pots spread out through local bushland areas, very happy it can be done again after soo many yrs
That's sucks bro. Probably a lot of crosses you wish would of made it. I love great white or any mycos. Yeah your right about some genes not mixing right. I mixed two super load strains last year. I grew out a couple beans and one female had no smell at all. I was like Wtf.
Sounds friggen awesome bro, I'm sure you'll find what you want!!
thanks bro, well do si dos is almost impossible to find yet the ingredients(ogkb & faceoff og) are around, so may try slapping a few together & see what happens!, btw that purp raspberry kush fem that was seeded up has beans with a low germ rate of 3 out of 10? first time breeding with fem strain, hey how things going with your led grow? you been quiet lately, james too, he's been having some issues recently i think?
Definitely can't hurt to try man, you may even come out with something better!!