Thank you, brotha.. Ive gotta few more questions to hit you with.. Do you have a indica, sativa or hybrid for your mother plant?? If you dont mind me asking, what breed do you have or mess around with??
You can ask whether I answer is another thing!
Nah just fucking with you, ask what you like if I can help I will, if I cannot I will try to steer you to where you can find your solution. One thing I ask is that you download the pdf of the book I posted above or buy yourself a copy, then when you have a problem I can direct you to the section that you need to read and then when you have an understanding we can discus in depth.
I am not up on the strains, they have moved so fast over the last 30 years I honestly don't know what is what without going to a strain site and checking.
Years ago I purchased a pack of 10 White Widow seeds from Nirvana I kept 2 of the females for moms and got a few good runs off of them. I don't actually keep many mums because you are then seen as a factory which attracts harsher sentences here in the UK.
I have a circle around me that gives me a selection of 15-30 varieties on any given day, cuttings go from £7-£10 each. I will usually take some cuttings when I strip away the foliage at the bottom of the plant before putting in to the flowering cycle, that way if it turns out to be something good I still have the genetics. I do this because the guys that produce the cuttings pay about £500 for a mother and it may only be viable for 4 months and then they have moved on to something new.
Last February I was given 3 Blue OG cuttings that were in a bad way. The plan was to veg them up for 3 months and then take cuttings from them. I did this but made the mistake of using an old bottle of Clonex Rooting Hormone and none of the cutting took. So I vegged them up for a another 3 months and took some more cutting and again they did not do well, being sentimental, stubborn I tried again and still they were no good. that is the problem being given random cutting s from growers who say "i got a Mum" and do not know how to treat it, look after it, prepare it to have cuttings taken and then how to bring the cutting s forward. I wasted 10 months on something that had shit genetics, I will never do that again, lesson learned.
Strains I have worked with over the years are
Super Skunk
Skunk #1
Northern Lights
Silver Haze
Jack Herer
White Widow
Cheese
Cheesus
Lemon Amnesia
and others that do not come to mind at the moment
Currently working with Orange Diesel Version 3 (first time)
and have started some seeds that were given to me by a friend who accidently pollinated his crop so they a re a mix up of Strawberry Banana, Blueberry Cookies, Purple Afghan, OG Kush, Cookie Kush, Ocean Grown Cookies and Bubba Kush, these are being prepared for a friend who is going to do an outside guerrilla grow. I will take some cuttings of each of these because the seeds cracked in 36 hours and the roots grew at an amazing rate and the plants growth was vigorous.
This was them on the 19th Jan
and then today
this was the ODv3.0 also on 19th after going in the 6x6x6 inch cubes
and then today
also
@Mrfreddygoodbud for your visual pleasure
the ODv3.0 should have gone into a flowering room 2 weeks ago but the roof has been leaking and I have had to undergo some emergency repairs which has slowed me down. They are a bit taller than I would like but that is not a big problem as I will bend and prune them to manipulate them.