Yeah - that is the way! ...can you post a pic?
Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!
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StinkBud
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Leave a male in your system. Watch it closely for balls. You have a long time before you have to worry.
When the balls start turning yellow that means they are just about to open. That's when you cut the plant down. Make sure you leave enough stems and leaves to keep the roots alive!!!! You may have to cut off some balls from the lower plant.
Now take your male plant and cut off some good branches and put them in a vase or glass of water. Just like flowers.
They will ripen up over a few days and start to open. Use a glass plate and tap the flowers over the plate a few times a day to collect the pollen.
Be sure and label the pollen and store it in the fridge or freezer. Now take a small watercolor brush and paint some of the pollen on the lower buds of the plants.
Before long you will have seed coming out your ass!
That's all there is to it! How about some tips...
Don't breed brothers and sisters unless you want some funky stuff.
Don't keep the new breed going unless it's as good or better than the parents.
You will get better results by mixing 2 completely different land race strains. Find a good male and try it with a bunch of different females. Too many males gets confusing.
It takes me many weeks to really judge the quality of the weed. I look for a number of different things.
The most important aspect to me is the high. I look at ceiling, feel and tolerance.
1) Ceiling - This is how high the weed can make you. With some Afghans you can only get so high. If you keep smoking more you just get sleepy. With some Sativas the more you smoke the higher you get. I want my smoke to have a high ceiling.
2) Feel - Does the weed make you feel tired and sleepy or energized and creative. I like having both strains around. Indicas are great for pain and insomnia. A mix is good for day use.
3) Tolerance - One of the most over looked aspects of weed. With some weed after a few weeks your body starts to build up a tolerance to the weed. You have to smoke more and more but it never is the same as when you first smoked it. Take a few weeks off and it's back to normal for a while.
Some people have confused tolerance with genetic drift. They keep taking clones from the same plants but they don't seem to be getting as high as they used to. They blame it on the plants and assume that the strain is getting weaker with each cutting. False.... The people have built up a tolerance to that specific type of pot.
Good bud will get you just as high after 10 years as it did the first hit. That's what makes Blueberry so good. DJ Short is one of the few breeders who understand the concept of tolerance. His strains always have lasting power.
After the high the most important thing to me is the taste and smell. I like all types of tastes and smells. Everything from fruity to spicy. This is totally a personal thing. There is no right or wrong answer. What ever you like is right!
Yield is the last thing I look at. The plant must be able to produce enough medicine to actually help people. There are a lot of good strains out there but they grow too slow and don't produce. I look for strains that will produce huge colas. They also need to finish up in a decent amount of time.
So find yourself a land race Afghan and a land race Sativa and breed yourself the next super Kush. Maybe you can name a strain after me...SB Kush?
StinkBud
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The pollen will be good for at least a couple of months. I've tried keeping it for a long time but the pollen ended up caking together and turning brown.Thanks for the step by step instructions. You answered a lot of my questions. One I didn't see was how long will the pollen stay viable in the fridge or freezer?
When I do mess with xbreeding the first will definitely have your name.
SB Purple Nepal
trayne
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well when you just add till you get to your correct or desired ppm to you just estimate being even with your diff nutes? like what do since your cycle will call for more or less of a certain one at diff times ?
trayne
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another question i have is if different strains take different flowereing tiimes , and lets say youve never done that certain strain. or for me being my first grow.how will you know when to start flushing?
and is it ok if i flush two weeks before i actually know , and do an estimate on say choppin on the 8th week. and when that time comes if the trichomes arent ready till the 9 week and i just flush an extra week? or is that bad and if you have estimated wrong you HAVE to harvest after the 2nd week has ended for flushing whether the trichomes are ready or not?
apreciate all the info stink.
orzz
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Thanks for the answer! Appreciate it!
Mitus
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THANK YOU STINKBUD!!! wow... very informative.
I was wondering if you could help me out with some info... Do you know how Cali law works for running a Coop? Say multiple patients want to live in the same place and pull their growing limits together... I've heard some people say you need a permit for that to be legit, then i've heard others say that you don't... I've also heard that its possible to get your perscribing Dr. to raise the growing limit set by your perscription... edjucate me!! haha
-Mitus
I was wondering if you could help me out with some info... Do you know how Cali law works for running a Coop? Say multiple patients want to live in the same place and pull their growing limits together... I've heard some people say you need a permit for that to be legit, then i've heard others say that you don't... I've also heard that its possible to get your perscribing Dr. to raise the growing limit set by your perscription... edjucate me!! haha
-Mitus
No doubt! Whatever I cross will def have OG Kush in it - and be called StinkBud__________ something or other... so yeah! SB Kush, it is. Thanks for explaining that. Like everything you do in the garden, you make me feel like I can do it too - thanks for breaking it down that way!
No silly questions on Stink's thread!
The neoprene sleeves do not affect the stem's growth. They expand to allow the main stalk to grow as normal. I am amazed how much they can stretch!
thecholochef
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are you talking patients growing together for their stash, or patients living at the same spot all growing for a co-op? ive never heard of any permits , as far as i know once u got your rec. your good. if growing for a collective im not too sure.. im sure theres someone in here who runs one and can help you with that. as far as the doc raising your plant count, thats not happening anymore..
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StinkBud
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You mix the nutrients first in a gallon jug using my formula. Everything is on page 75.
After you mix the formula you add that to the water until you reach your desired PPM.
Different strains require different amounts of nutrients. 2000PPM is a good starting point. My Blueberry likes 1700PPM but my Snowbud can handle 3000PPM.
StinkBud
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Don't start the flush until the plants are almost done. When the pistils start turning brown/orange you know it's getting close. When in doubt let them go another week.
Lately I've been flushing for one week with Sweet only. I drain my res and refill with 450ml of Sweet added to the water. PH 5.8
After 3 days I'll drain it again and add 250ml of Sweet. I'm trying a mix of Berry and Citrus Sweet this time.
Remember, you are always better off having your bud a little too ripe than not ripe enough. Some strains will really thicken up of the last 2 weeks. Be patient!
Master Grower Soma gives some of the best advice around. He says "wait until you think it's time to harvest, then wait another week". This is so true! Try it and you will see what I mean. Most people become inpatient and harvest too early. Think of buds like fruit. Is fruit better tree ripened or picked early and allowed to ripen in the store? Think of apples and peaches and what they taste like when you pick them early! Sour!!! Let the fruit rippen on the tree though and it will be as sweet as candy. Same with your buds....
StinkBud
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I don't breed much anymore but I used to do it every time. It is easy with soil because you can move the male out of the room easily.
It was very enjoyable and frustrating at the same time. I kept track of my pollen and seeds and labeled everything.
I started with some old school Hindu Kush seeds. Every once in a while one of my buddies would find a seed and give it to me. It's very rare to find a seed around here!
Usually you want female seeds but when you start to breed you need a good male. Good males are hard to find
. You won't know if the male is any good until after you grow out the offspring.Needless to say it takes many years of hard work to discover you are better off finding some killer clones instead
.Hey guys. First of I would like to start of by saying WOW. I finally decided to grow my own bud. Not only does it seem a lot more cost efficient, but the plain truth is I am sick and tired of relying on a very unreliable source. I am going to assume that many of the fellow members here was in my shoe at one point. I have spent a lot of time reading and watching vids on growing. However with the amount of "attention" Stinks Guide had attracted, I thought it would be a safe assumption to make that this would be THE Guide to follow. There is only 2 problems I am running into. I am completely lost, and that is a whole lot of info scattered around within the 600+ replys. I took a look at all the stickys and guides on the first page of the forum, but does anyone have a more "simplified" guide? One that is following the same guidelines and Stinks? Sorry for the extremely long post...
nadbilson
Member
Try page 75 i think thats where stink sends everyone. but overall this system is very simple to build and use, good luck with it!
Mitus
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Anyone know if you have multiple patients living in one place, do their growing limits stack? Like if the norm is 6/12, would 3 patients be allowed 18/36?
-Mitus
orzz
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In CAL, in my county(contra costa), they stack.
Sure Shot
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Stack them up high!
