I haven’t ever kept a male before, but I really want to make my own crosses, just for my personal projects out of the love for the cannabis plant, and to save money on buying seeds (even though I probably will keep buying seeds anyways, and making more crosses). I am not all that serious about it, I just think doing some backyard breeding for myself and friends to smoke will be fun! This is a Vortex from Subcool that has been flowering out in my greenhouse during the winter. I’m hoping he will still finish, even though the days are getting longer, and I can collect some pollen and start my breeding project with him. I also have some other males that I’m going to try breeding with (2 Soulmate- Bodhi, 1 Jelly Pie-Greenpoint, and (Purple Peyote x Querkle) x MAC- Hammerhead). The males are all outside and I’ll get pollen from them later, and possibly add to the male lineup over the spring and summer. I do have a clone of this Vortex male and one of my 3 females I have about midway through flower is pretty frosty and has a really good, lemony smell, so I want to see how well it crosses with some of the females of different strains and make some F2 Vortex’s. I’m brand new to keeping males and breeding and collecting and storing pollen so any tips are welcome and appreciated! My idea so far to collect pollen is to get some long paper bags to put over the flowers, then dry it and mix it with some flour and store in the freezer. Nice to meet everyone! I’ve only been on RIU for about a month I think and it’s been all positive from everyone and I am really grateful for that!
Day 30 Not as frosty as I would like but that could be grower error.
and a group photo with the 2 phenos or SVF og X lemon cooks
Stay sane out there. Got some of @BobBitchen stuff coming up next
