Selfing the M.O.B.
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organicness
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You mean you successfully self'd MOB before? Or another strain? 'Cause this was the same issue I had with MOB. I got pollen sacs but no pollen.
Maine Brookies
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Open air pollenation. From what little reading i've done about selfing i've read about reversing plants it seems like a pretty popular method of seed propogation. I'm guessing it's because intersex females tend to produce very little pollen.
cerberus
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who knows, i here debates all the time about clone degredation and i don't believe there is anything conculsive.. It's a good open eye look at the problem though..
good luck tet, if i had any info on selfing i'd give it to ya.. i don't.. lol
i'm going old school method lol;
I got a 80% germ rate, and a 50/50 male to femal ratio so far with my MOB/c99's and i have a small batch going into flower now. I have a male that looks so much like the mom(mob), I think he's the one to back into the MOB again but first i am going to 'flower' him out and turn him into hash. if he smokes as good as he is structured (which will be blah compared to female but i have a few other male hashes to compare too) he's the one. i'll have an MOB leaning pheno male [MOB x C99] x MoB clone
tet1953
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Well I just took a female MOB that is about 3 weeks in, lots of nice buds. It isn't a lot bigger than the male actually. I put it in my little 4x4 chamber then took the male and held it over the female and shook it lol. Shook it good. I'll leave it in there a couple days then put it back where there's better lighting. I don't expect anything to come of it, but who knows.
organicness
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I just did a MOB x autoC99 fem (the auto C99 was just a continuous selection of earlier and earlier flowering phenos) so I'm pumped to hear you've done an MOBxc99, too. Should be nice. I also did MOB x Blubonic Guerilla and working an auto MOB from a DP blueberry x ALF3. Gonna do MOB x Gryphon, MOB x (blue stick x JTR) ...... yikes.
cerberus
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so here my thoughts on the CS issue and MOB, a guess
I don't know how the MoB pheno was found, either through a bunch of seeds and a lucky hit OR, a breeding proccess;
I do remeber a guy talking about working with the MOB's and said they had found a pheno that was liked, but did some back crossing and CS'ing to get just what they liked, i took it as just store BS BUT if they dude was in on the MoB beginings and it did have an extensive backcrossing and more specificly selfing and cubing and/or CS that could explain the issues people are having with it.
It would also make it a questionable candidate for a breeding program..:/ unless your program is just to find a keeper mom and clone
just a thought while on the shitter
I don't know how the MoB pheno was found, either through a bunch of seeds and a lucky hit OR, a breeding proccess;
I do remeber a guy talking about working with the MOB's and said they had found a pheno that was liked, but did some back crossing and CS'ing to get just what they liked, i took it as just store BS BUT if they dude was in on the MoB beginings and it did have an extensive backcrossing and more specificly selfing and cubing and/or CS that could explain the issues people are having with it.
It would also make it a questionable candidate for a breeding program..:/ unless your program is just to find a keeper mom and clone
just a thought while on the shitter
was tryin to remember the date you can put out the MOB's and they would stay in veg. Ive heard if you put them out to early theyll flower. Would the MOB flower properly if i put some out in a month and no light dep. They would be containered so i could bring them in ghouse on the nasty days. Got some goin in light dep right now but am keeping it @ 12/12 bcause there are other varieties im not willing to risk it messing around with their light sched.
Well Cerb I hate to be a pain by having two threads going about the MOBs but i was reading youre previous post about "using a shade to start flowering". Well that is kind of what i want to know. If i light dep them for 3 or 4 weeks will they continue to finish properly if i stop the light dep. Have been told by others that it will.
cerberus
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oooh i think you would end up with a double flowering thing.. the only time i did it, i threw a 5 gal. mother outside into a 10 gal in early june and mid july a used an easy up to force flower, but i ran the shade tent until i cut her..
with the double flower, i don't know how she would react to that. she''s got a weird growth pattern already; i'd think you'd end up with a home run or a total flop..
I have always wanted to put a few MOB out side for a whole outdoor cycle, starting at 5 gallons.. not gonna happen this year though..
so i say try it.
with the double flower, i don't know how she would react to that. she''s got a weird growth pattern already; i'd think you'd end up with a home run or a total flop..
I have always wanted to put a few MOB out side for a whole outdoor cycle, starting at 5 gallons.. not gonna happen this year though..
so i say try it.
tet1953
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Good luck, I'd be interested to know how that works out. I have used homemade silver colloid (same thing?) successfully a couple of times, but not with the MOB. It reversed no problem, but every pollen sac was empty.