Totemic

All the best for the year folks. Just got my new year's home grow on the go with clones into their 15l pots. Used FF premium, re-amended with 200ml elemental blend per pot. Quatro Kush F3 (from @SkunkPharm) Exodus Cheese Tortoni#1 and Strawberry sugar cookies They have a good few weeks of veg ahead of them. In Flowering it's a mixed bunch clapping day 17 already.

Yeah man, it's turning into such a disappointing reintegration of cannabis into our society. The right people aren't at the wheel, they're driving with the handbrake up. While I understand a cautionistic vs head first approach, their perceived harms is disproportionately high to what I perceive as the actual harms of cannabis which is..... Hmmmm. I can't think of a single harmful thing about cannabis. The propaganda machine is still hard at work, and still managing to convince many people the harms are real. This, and the new bill however it will come, will be keeping our court systems clogged for years still. Only thing we can do is keep trying to overgrow the govt. When cannabis is growing wild on every roadside, wild in the fields, then maybe things will change.

We have done one, and while it is awesome to see plants grow into trees, it is a long season and outdoors is generally unforgiving. Makes it difficult to judge. If we do an outdoor I'd love to see what that Chocolope NL male of @CreX added to his aurora kush

Well it depends on how many contestants there are, and assume 5 or 6 seeds if they are regulars and 3 feminized seeds. 200-300 seeds would do it with current participation rates.

I've been trying to encourage that, but if by next year someone hasn't stepped up I'll sponsor seeds again

When they express during preflower stretch from the primordial spots at the node, it's most likely dominate hermie. Those same plants may not have expressed as hermie outdoors. Sometimes the stresses of indoor are just not manageable by the plant.

Either syringes or plastic measuring cups. I have a small 100ml one I use

It seems a lot of In-house gear has taken this downturn and throwing nanners across a few lines...

Congratulations to all the winners. Been great following along on your grows

I'm not sure. Those seeds were harvested in 2020 so are pretty fresh...

Strange that non of them popped. Could you provide me with more detail. What strains, from whom you purchased, if not from 420sa. There are however non of those specific batch seeds, but I could get a few others off to you in a bit.

I suppose it all depends on what price motherland supplied to Bnb. At least 100% markup is pretty much standard for a retail environment though. Seed prices are always a hot topic. On the one hand we are already at a loss with the value of our Rand, and we don't want to pay a lot for seeds. Current retail market fem seeds go for between R50-R100 on average. But this whole seed market is going to change into something else fast. It's no longer just a few of us risking a lot to be breeding for the growers. With decriminalization that risk has greatly reduced. Then Covid happened and lock down 1.0 saw us cut off from international seed sources, and even to an extent domestically. These two events drove many growers locally to take their growing to the next step. There are now many, many breeders that have come on to the scene. It's an exciting time for us to have the opportunity to reintegtate our society with cannabis. Who knows how far it's going to go...

So this thread also got away from me, but never the less closing it off. 6 phenos and 6 different directions this line will take going forward. There is enough seed from this run for me to continue hunting, and I will make a few available to testers.

Awesome comeback man. You really turned those plants around for a decent finish

I also thought you moved them out after the 7th...

I know right. I just love my regulars, and prefer to breed with them. I'm not a fan of fems, but as you say, keeping the wheel turning means working fems

But you will find variations of the trait expressing in the F2 and F3s that may be worth exploring

Loving seeing this expression among the fems. It gives me a lot of hope for finding a few of these in the f2s, which is part of my goals with the cross. Getting a frostier, and tamer(less foxtailing) CNL expression. Still this pheno looks like chunky hard nugs...

3 days before the spring equinox it seems like a good time to get my season started. I've gone right back in the archives here and have 14 F2 CNL, and 28 F3 CNL in for this mini hunt.

Awesome man. If you don't have any of the tortoni regs, let me know. The regs do perform better, and have a fuller, sweeter expression, with more frost, and yield. Fems are great, but they also aren't. There is just something a male adds that a reversed female just can't give.

These girls are going on. 3 more indica dominant, and 3 more on the sativa side Got some leaf bud action on the one pheno

Those chocolate Gelato fems are pretty balanced, but still pulls more to indica side. They tend to be compact and bushy, and do not require very heavy feeding.

Me? One of the big boys... Heavens no. I'm a hobby breeder man, but my efforts have created a table that made 7 figures over the last year down my distribution line with 45000 seeds distributed. So does this make me part of this commercial machine? Does this make my efforts financially driven? Does this mean I have changed the way I approach my breeding over the last decade? I couldn't tell you how any of those real big guys run their breeding programs, nor their primary motivation. My primary motivation has always been driven by a deep relationship with the plant, and sharing that. You may see totemic as just one of the brands, and while I have chosen a brand to engage the public, totemic is still rooted in the activism to free the plant. But anyway, I do get where you are coming from, no offense taken at all

I read this article yesterday and was stumped at the backlash this poor oke is receiving. Life is heading back in a direction where more of us need to be doing what he is doing instead of tending to a non edible lawn.

As a breeder, taking a stud and crossing it into x, y, z different cookies lines, or tangie lines or whatever lines are in focus at that time, I'm testing that male to see with which of those related lines are going to pair up the best with that male. Assuming that this means a breeder is not selecting, is naive. This is the very art of selecting. Not all those lines may be worked further, maybe only one, but there is no reason why the other lines can't or shouldn't be shared. A solid, realistic example is what I did last year with my chocolate Gelato line, by crossing it into 4 other lines. They all came out great, but the Slurricane cut that made the Tortoni line, was the best match of that run. Why, because after working with the cut for over a year, I've noticed that the terpene profile is easily manipulated, and the gelato profile has dominated as I wanted, while most of the great slurri traits have remained. Tortoni is the line I'm working further. The same holds true for the C99 I crossed into the same slurri cut... The terpene profile is exactly what I've wanted, on a Slurricane body. I've given the plant another chance at evolving. So what have I actually done... Thats breeding man.