Getting Seed - WW + Bag Seed - Thoughts ?

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Chosen

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Well I just learned the horrible truth my 3 WW's are all MALES and I have nothing else to continue with this strain. I have one FEMALE crap bag seed that smells ok but this plant has been the subject of ALOT of experiments.

If I seed the female will I ever be left with a decent strain ? Will the new seeds always have traits of both plants OR will some seeds be WW and others crap ? Maybe they will have traits of both and be dominant in one.

What is everyones suggestion here ? I honestly do not want to order seeds again right now.

I know I want to collect some pollen for sure so I can cross the widow with some good seed down the road.

I still can not believe it has come to this :(
 
donnieosmond

donnieosmond

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Sorry bout that guy........ I think it's best to get as much as you can from the female. Pollen will only last 3-5 days. How long till harvest?
 
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Chosen

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donnieosmond said:
Sorry bout that guy........ I think it's best to get as much as you can from the female. Pollen will only last 3-5 days. How long till harvest?
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I am under the impression that pollen can be taken and stored for long periods of time. Miles away from harvest the 4 plants are just begining to show sex. Here is a shot at 37 days since I started germinating them, so depressing.

I want to somehow end up with some WW to smoke :wall:

What do you think about using the blender/ice method to try and make some hash out of the 2 male plants ?

 
D3adH3ad

D3adH3ad

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maybe try collecting it and freezing it until your girls are slutted up enough to take it (lol)...it's worth some kind of try you don't want your WW to go to waste
 
bigbudeddie

bigbudeddie

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Depends how many seeds you want dude, your gonna get shit loads if you wait longer. Not that thats a bad thing :mrgreen: You could possibly end up with some good smoke....
 
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Chosen

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Chosen said:
BUMP - Need some other opinions here LOTS of them...
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We have to have a few breeders here that can make some suggestions for saving this strain. I have cut down two WW males and they are hanging in the garage. I left the best looking WW male in the room with bag seed female still waiting for advice.

I am going to try the ice and blender method with males, stems and all to see what happens :)
 
nongreenthumb

nongreenthumb

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The only thing you could probably do to breed the ww into that strain and get a more dominant widow variation would be to use your pollen you have now on your bag seed female. Clone the males and then every generation add a bit more widow its a long ass way of doing things as opposed to spending 50 bucks on some more.

If you wanna smoke the widow, your gonna need to buy some more otherwise your in for a long wait before you get some real widow out of it.

The cross you make could be alright, but there will be a lot of variation in the plants, you may get some good ones and you may get some poor ones, its all going to depend upon the conditions when you breed them.
 
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Chosen

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nongreenthumb said:
The only thing you could probably do to breed the ww into that strain and get a more dominant widow variation would be to use your pollen you have now on your bag seed female. Clone the males and then every generation add a bit more widow its a long ass way of doing things as opposed to spending 50 bucks on some more.

If you wanna smoke the widow, your gonna need to buy some more otherwise your in for a long wait before you get some real widow out of it.

The cross you make could be alright, but there will be a lot of variation in the plants, you may get some good ones and you may get some poor ones, its all going to depend upon the conditions when you breed them.
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Sounds like you are implying that the seed produced in the cross will be primary the females traits. Or will it just be a matter of finding the WW in new the seed ?

My plan was to take seed (method undecided); Start 30 in rockwool then to party cups; At 3-4 inches try to find the ones that most resembled the WW from the original grow. <--- Is that just crazy thinking ?

What do you know about taking pollen and how it stores ?

Sad the one plant that is going to produce bud has been through hell. I used her to practice and test everything. Guess I better stop trying to kill this one and get a little smoke while I plan for a recovery.

$50.00 is not the problem its getting it here. I wasnt growing the first time I ordered seeds, different story today. We will figure something out. Anything else you can add would be great.
 
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fdd2blk

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crossing a good with a bad makes a kinda good. you would only be lessening the quality of the genetics. order the seeds and have them sent anywhere. no one gets busted ordering seeds. try to "save" the WW by crossing it with crap seed won't work. you may get lucky but for the most part it's just not worth it.
 
JESSE

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the clones taken off of a male dont urn female or what? i heard that they do and have tried but i only got herms....figured i just sucked at cloning....
 
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JESSE said:
the clones taken off of a male dont urn female or what? i heard that they do and have tried but i only got herms....figured i just sucked at cloning....
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The clones from male plant will be male and vise versa. If you are cloning hermies odds are you will get another hermie. Best of luck No worries about cloning, looking around there are plenty of us that SUCK as well.
 
JESSE

JESSE

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i wasnt useing gel or nothing just winging it out in the nor cal redwoods...got some gel now but havent had the chance to use it.
 
donnieosmond

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You can't clone a male and get a female is what he is saying. If you have a hermie you can let it pollinate itself and use the seeds to plant, you'll most likely end up with females.
 
JESSE

JESSE

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so if that is true when you here that a plant is only available in clone form then that is obviosly a crock of shitcause you can easily make a plant go herm and with that if its seeds grow well you would end up with both fems and males and SEEDS! so no plant is only available in clone just false advertisement?
 
donnieosmond

donnieosmond

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Well reputable sources ONLY sell female clones, so it's not really bullocks. It's possible some shady person might sell you a hermie or male clone though. You are right though, if you stress a plant badly enough YOU can turn it hermie. But for the most part if someone is offering a clone, it is assumed that it is female.
 
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Chosen

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JESSE said:
so if that is true when you here that a plant is only available in clone form then that is obviosly a crock of shitcause you can easily make a plant go herm and with that if its seeds grow well you would end up with both fems and males and SEEDS! so no plant is only available in clone just false advertisement?
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Any chance the thread highlighting my failures not be brought back the first page each day :) J/K

200th post
 
donnieosmond

donnieosmond

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Male plants are unsmokeable... but there are other uses for them. Personally I'd throw it in the garbage disposal.
 
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