Icemud's Breeding Projects And Motherchucking Pollination Extravaganza

Graytail · May 27, 2022

Noice color on those plants!

And congrats on the new position. Office eh? As long as they can tear themselves away from their phones long enough to hear other people speak ... :confused:

I hear way too many huh?s. Huh? Huh?

I miss the 20th Century.

Icemud · May 27, 2022

Graytail said:
Noice color on those plants!

And congrats on the new position. Office eh? As long as they can tear themselves away from their phones long enough to hear other people speak ... I hear way too many huh?s. Huh? Huh?

I miss the 20th Century.

Thanks Graytail!!! Yea the plants really do look beautiful color... I think its a result of the all blue LED's I was using in my veg tent which seems to give the plants an almost neon vibrant green color as well as the Jacks 3-2-1 nutrients I recently switched over to.

I would use the all blue LED's for all of my veg, but the only problem is it causes a lot of stretch, which can be good or bad. I currently was using them to accelerate the slower growing plants to become taller which did seem to work well. They really do an amazing job on veg (minus the stretch factor).

Also the Jacks 3-2-1 I really am liking a lot... I measured out the dosing to a 5 gallon feeding, and its 3 tsp of part 1, 2tsp of part 2 and 1 tsp of epsom salt and thats it... super easy. I do still add my enzymes, microbes/mycos and superthrive (in veg), but wow the Jacks is pretty incredible.

Thanks for the congrats!!! Yea its going to be different going back into an office, but I definitely have spent a LOT of money kind of coasting over the past 2 years so glad to be back to having income streams come in other than my dividends...lol

I too miss the 20th centry... I feel really sad for the youth and kids that have to grow up in todays world. Everything is so vastly different now and "cold" and impersonal compared to 25+ years ago...

I hope all is going well with you Graytail!!! Thanks for stopping by as always and for the congrats.. Very much appreciated!

Icemud · May 29, 2022

Quick update time...

So out of the 7 candidates, looking for the next male pollen donor I had:
1 Pine Tar Kush (CSI)
3 Roasted Garlic Margy (cannarado)
3 Alien Antifreeze (mycotek)

The Pine tar Kush as of today showed it was a male, so I decided since it wasn't the main focus (looking for a kush/chem BX) then it was not going to make the cut, so the PTK was culled today.

I also found out that 1 of the Alien Antifreeze is a for sure male, and the other 2 look to be female but no definitive signs yet... So being that I really wanted the Alien Antifreeze to be the male donor as I am looking for a Gassy/Fuel terps chem or OG, then the male donor for the next seed project will be Alien Antifreeze. This will cross really nice with my other gassy strains such as GG4, Private Reserve OG and Ogiesel.

So far 1 of the Roasted Garlic Margy was a male for sure, and it looks like a 2nd one also might be a male... I decided to cull the for sure male and I will keep a watchful eye on the other 2 to make sure no males make the cut. I decided against the Roasted Garlic Margy being a pollen donor as there was too many crosses in its lineage and it has cookies in it, and I really don't want any cookies in my garden at this time. I like cookies, don't get me wrong, but everything is saturated with cookies in the market so I want something else.

All of the remaining "mothers" were cloned tonight and moved over to the flowering tent, and I will be going directly into flowering with them, since the Alien Antifreeze and Roasted Garlic margy are already about 1 week into flowering, since I flipped them early to show sex.

Also a new edition to my tent this run is a nice 2x4 bungie trellis.... forever I've struggled with my taller strains flopping all over my shorter strains so hopefully this will help to give them support as they get larger into flowering.

Well thats all, no photos with this update.

Hope everyone has an excellent holiday weekend!

Icemud · Jun 1, 2022

Quick update on my Alien Antifreeze seed project.

So as flowering progressed, Roasted Garlic Margy (pheno 2) ended up being a hermie... On some nodes it was showing white pistils and on other branches the nodes were showing balls/pollen sacks. Because of this I destroyed pheno 2 as no hermies allowed in my garden! lol

So as of now I have:
1 Roasted Garlic Margy female
2 Alien Antifreeze females
1 Alien Antifreeze male

This will work well as I'm happy the hermi showed itself early and saved a wasted project if i would have missed it.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but this project will also be the end of the line for 2 of my mother plants.... Quite honestly I really don't want to get rid of any of the strains, but I have too many and I really want to focus on the elites... So, this will be the end of the line for my GDP and my Deep Chunk x GDP that I made. The main reason I am getting rid of these is that the GDP and cross, both grow extremely slow and are very very tempermental.. Too much water, too little water, too many nutrients, too little nutrients... never happy and about 1/4 the size of all of my other plants. I LOVE the norcal "purps" terps and flavor, which really makes me not want to get rid of these, but I have to make room and only can keep strains that are elite in ALL ways and are producers as well as easy to grow... So the GDP and GDP x Deep Chunk will be pollinated by the alien Antifreeze and I did not take clones of them to continue forward....

I've made enough crosses with both that I can always bring them back (somewhat) in the future. I am definitely proud of the GDP x deep chunk I made as it's terpenes are some of the most pungent and best tasting I've ever made... (think Purps with extreme fruit punch flavor)

Well Cheers to thinning out the herd...

Icemud · Jun 7, 2022

OK before i get to the newest photos and update... Here is a photo of the Cannarado Roasted Garlic Margy that went hermie on me. Yanked ASAP as we want none of that in the garden.

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Roasted Garlic Margy Hermi, culled from my garden.

Icemud · Jun 7, 2022

And now... we present... on day 10 flowering (except the Roasted Garlic Margy and Alien antifreeze which are on day 13) +3 days... (they were started early)

So the Alien Antifreeze male is just starting to drop pollen. its defintely not releasing as much pollen as other strains that I have grown, but it is still early. Once good thing I noticed is that when I shook the plant, I didn't sneeze or itch... so I'm hoping that my allergy is just to Thai Strains, but only time will tell.

Roasted Garlic Margy and Alien Antifreeze:
The RGM and AA are now showing full flowering and looking beautiful.

AA pheno 3 definitely has much larger and fuller flowers than AA pheno 2, but pheno 2 also has more branches which would make sense on why the flowers are less full.
RGM also looks very full for flowering and I can tell its going to have some nice buds on it the way it is stacking up.
I haven't done a stem rub in a while so I'm probably going to wait about a week or so and then see what kind of terps they are developing early off in flowering. When I brush them they defintiely smell kushy/skunky/gassy which is exactly what I am looking for... I want it smelling like Pepe Le Pew ran through a kerosine factory.

Other Mothers:
All of the other "mothers" are just starting to show signs of flowering since they are about 3 days behind the others, but all are looking really good. I'm having 2nd thoughts on getting rid of my GDP on this grow, so I may decide to take a single clone of it before it gets too far along in flowering, but I am still waiting on it... those norcal purps terps are so hard to find, it would be a shame to lose them... so we will see.

The plants in the photos look a little droopy as they are needing their next feeding which i will give them tonight.

Roasted Garlic Margy:

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Alien Antifreeze: Pheno 3

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Alien Antifreeze Pheno 2

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Alien Antifreeze male:

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Blueberry A3 pheno (blueberry syrup terps):

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Icemud · Jun 13, 2022

Hey Everyone!!! good morning! Well today I'm up early as I start my new job in the aerospace industry.... Kind of excited, a slight bit nervous and overall not thrilled to be going back to an office after 3 1/2 years from working at home and such... BUT... it means $$$$ coming in again which is good

Wish me luck!!!

Anyhow... Today is day 15 of flowering for my mothers and day 18 for the Alien Antifreeze and Roasted Garlic Margy. The RGM and AA are now in full flowering and already are showing signs of the seeds starting to form as the male has been putting out clouds of pollen now when I shake it. The good news is that I am only very very slightly allergic to the pollen this run, so i think that I must be allergic to Thai strains particularly as they are the only ones that have caused intense allergic reactions (blueberry included).

The Roasted Garlic Margy really is forming up nicely and the trichome formation looks like it is going to be excellent. The Alien Antifreeze is also really looking good, one pheno has less tops so the bud formation is much larger on that pheno, and the pheno with more tops is also filling in quite nicely.

Very oddly the other day after shaking the plants I was on my phone and saw a bug come off my finger and start crawling on the screen. Well after inspecting it with my 30 lupe, it looks like a spider mite... CRAP! I've only had them 1x before so immediately I hit the girls with a neem oil and spinosad spray, as well as put some spinosad in the watering/feeding and did a root drench. Spinosad (although not allowed in the legal market) works really well for spider mites, is organic, and can be uptaken through the roots (in experiments with tomatos) so hopefully it works well here. I didn't seen any leaf spots or signs of any infestation so I am hoping that it came off of me from walking outside near some bushes or something, but I didn't want to take any risks so I will be using some rotations of insecticidal soap, neem, mite spray and spinosad as its best to approach it in a multi part process. Shouldn't be bad but just want to make sure they are all gone quickly.

Other than that... Here are some photos:

Roasted Garlic Margy: