Grand Daddy Purple S1 & Pre-1998 Bubba Kush S1

[PotChimp]

Note: I chopped the other two mother plants today and put them on plates to dry. I'll sort the seeds in about a week and store them for this Fall, if I don't decided to do my GDP S3 grow earlier than that. I'll post pics later too.

 

[PotChimp]

To be honest there are just times I'm glad to put a plant to an end, and this is one of those (GDP clone):

It doesn't have long so I'll keep feeding it.

 

[PotChimp]

GDP mother plant:

I took a clone yesterday but it doesn't look good. I don't have any luck with clone exx; I do best with no cloning gel for some reason.

 

[PotChimp]

Pre '98 Bubba Kush S1 - total dry weight 1.75 oz.

Just like my LA Affie grow, this grow had that excessive shine to the leaves. The plant material has a slight taste to it, like the smell of grass clippings that didn't compost right and just dried into a hard mass. Otherwise, the buzz is good and growing it longer paid off.
As soon as I harvest the GDP S2 seeds and take pics of it, I'll close this journal.

 

[Governmentchz]

It looks really good PC. No doubt it will get better in the flavor department after a stint in the jar.

 

[TheGreenYeti]

That came out gorgeous Chimp! You even pulled enough off of it to roll you at least two chimp fingers to burn down

 

[PotChimp]

Thanks this next GDP clone ended my lucky streak though >>>>>

My pH meter was off and I adjusted a compost tea incorrectly; it was yellowing up too soon already and that just put it under. Oh well, it's only got about 10 days left. I should pull all those leaves off.

 

[bobrown14]

Hey there PC - I wouldn't sweat the yellowing.. it's just fall in that there grow room! Looks good to me.

I bet the smoke from that is going to be top notch top shelf.

I've got a few strains that do exactly that every run. I got used to it.. there was nothing I could do to change it so I let it go.. every time I tried to "solve" the "problem" my yield would suffer. Some cultivars just loose fan leaves bulking up buds.

 

[PotChimp]

Thanks man
Well here's a not-so-good note. I did a rough inspection of all 3 parent plants in my S2 project, and so far haven't found a single seed. I'll do a final and thorough inspection before I call it a failed venture.
The first thing I'm going to get into when Indica season comes this Fall is a second GDP S2 attempt if there are no seeds here. One thing I'm going to do is only treat the lowers with CS; they don't seem to cluster as much, and the top may stay female. The other thing I'm going to do is start the treated S1 plant early, and when the male flowers start to show I'll start the S1 females.
Dang the one mother smelled nice and grapey too!

 

[PotChimp]

Chimp's bountiful seed harvest (from the grapey smelling GDP S1 sister plant):

One friggin' seed?!?!?

 

[PotChimp]

That seed looks infertile in real life. So here's the scoop
It's in a wet paper towel as of five minutes ago; if it lives I'm going to keep this journal open and go straight into the GDP S3 breeding project, using a clone I just took of the original GDP as a mother. If it doesn't live I'll go back to the first plan, which is to try again first thing in the Fall lessons learned.

 

[TheGreenYeti]

Dang Chimp I hope that you get that seed to take. That sucks that you only got one seed out of that grapey mother. Your plants looked to have reversed well so I wonder what happened. Didn't you have another mother as well?

 

[PotChimp]

The plant reversed okay, but by the time it did the two secondary mothers I put in with it were pretty far along. The CS treated plant clustered so bad with male flowers that when I shook it I didn't see a pollen cloud like I usually do with my other breeding projects. I even rubbed the treated plant against the other two mothers, but only got one seed from the dark purple S1 sister.
One good note though. That seed took so this journal is going to continue.

 

[Graytail]

That miserable piece of crap sprouted?

Ha! Fantastic!

 

[PotChimp]

I had to crack it with a pair of needlenose pliers but the next day there was a tail so I put it in the soilless. I've had a few weak seeds not take so I'll keep my eye on it. Here's the latest GDP clone I put into flower a few days ago:

I trimmed it up after that pic.

 

[PotChimp]

I think it's gonna make it
GDP S2 seedling:

The GDP cutting I'll be crossing it with:

An underfed GDP plant most of the way through flower:

 

[TheGreenYeti]

Awesome job with that seed PC I'm glad this journal will stay open. I really enjoy your GDP grows. I see people in Ziggys creating female seeds journal that stagger their plants so that the reversed one is flipped a couple of weeks before the mother's so that the timing is a little better. I understand your space is limited so it may not be feasible for you to do if that way.

 

[PotChimp]

Thanks. I plan on staggering the two to make sure I get seeds this time, even if it takes up a part of a closet to do so. Here's the healthier GDP plant I have in flower (not really showing much yet):

 

[PotChimp]

It's partly cut out of view, but that GDP S2 seedling from the one seed I got is upper left in this pic (I put it in with my Jack the Ripper seedlings):

I planted it a day after the JTRs and it's already bigger That ain't gonna last though.

 

[PotChimp]

A GDP plant from the original one I keep cloning: