Those look great Carty. Gabagoo is one of my favorites so far. She is really fun to grow and a great smoke. Your doing a great job.
How do you know when to pollinate where you will get viable seeds?
Gabagoo has such a following in Colorado, others are now taking credit for creating it... hahaha. Hey, they say it's the best flattery. diks. haha.
Breeding with Autos I find super easy. As far as seeds go, my rule of thumb is 6wks. From the pollen dropping to viable. Any sooner and your chancing many green seeds and a few viable.
The pollen part is all nature.
But, you also have to know what males to watch out for if you have the oppurtunity to choose between a few .. like on this run, I kept the 1st male just in case, but he showed sex at day 12. Average really for an auto male.. then, another showed sex at day 18. THAT was my male. Because he showed sex at almost 3wks old, some of his offspring females may go the same and that is my goal.
Autos to get size need to veg 3wks.. the ones that show sex in 10 days are fun, but those are the stunted plants that give Autos a bad rap.. so it's pollen slinging with a good eye. Now if I had a few males that showed same time frame. I see who had the earliest trichome production, shortest nodes etc..
hope that helps a little
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It all began with a few Sour60 x AK47 seeds, the only 3 that were not crushed by an over zealous postal worker, gone, well, postal on a simple card. LOL> 2 females of opposite structure and a nice male.
HItting this with Blue Streak F3 started the journey of Gabagoo.. “
i remember them seeds , i just wish i could remember who sent them to me….i wanna say it was TIM but im not for sure
i did a lousy job trying to grow them , there was not a lot of info on autos back then , that is when i sent them to you…..gawd i wish i had that package back again so i could re-package them
but hey , it all turned out for the best and now thanks to Cartman , there is now some excellent info on how to grow autos successfully
One Offspring of the first batch of seeds I made.. obviously showing some AK in her huh...
And I then did another breeding with one of the Offspring that was so sticky it got the nickname Agoo
which created Mr Magoo, Magoo, and Gabagoo.. yeah, I had to research this myself.. hahaha.
It wasn't easy starting off with 3 stunted plants that showed the Sour60 side,
So as they got bigger I kept seeding up the larger plants while always choosing the stickiest male with early trichome development as early as on the pollen sacs..
but like they say, the big pheno searching time is F2 stock and it proved correct.
And that is the Journey of Gabagoo.. I have 1 good friend who has like 20 seeds who will also do a preservation run when he can get to it.. Argo buddy, still counting on you...