Hi don, lovely shots as always m8, love the frog pics, he actually does look happy and smiling, and high lol, was he near by when you had a puff lol. I think its your knowledge and skills that have gotten the plants through such a harsh season more than anything

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Hi shaun m8, good to see they are chugging along nicely. This gen was made to express as much as the genetics in the line as possible in a single gen. Imho the f2 gen, if reached with a large/high enough ne, is the place to really shape, define, refine, or set the direction of the line. I like working in the f2 gen as it shows the best, worst and everything in between that the line offers. It allows one to hone in on the most pleasing phenotypical expressions, and to get rid of the undisirable. Hopefully the work done here in the f2 will eliminate the undisirable weirdness indoors within the line, whilst retaining and focusing on the disired traits. From here it will be split into 2 seperate f3 lines narrowed to a lower ne ( for indoor and outdoor growers) and a larger ne single f3 line produced for breeding/preservation purposes of my own.
Normaly i like to do all the work first on seperate lines, and do the outcross last, so one ends up with say z99 f3/f4 x zoidchunk f3/f4 to make mbs2, as opposed to say (c99 x deepchunk) x zoidfuel then worked to f3 to stabilize. Both would give somewhat vaguely similar results, but the first option not only gives much better vigor, but is far more controled.
Its funny because technicaly the mbs is an inbreeding program, but essentialy it is both at once in a weird way lol.
But its a wee bit different in the case of the z99, because it has gotten to this point with a large ne, it will be possible to create more stable f3s that retain most of the vigor of the line. For the most part the z99 is being made into a breeding tool for hybridization, but i think it will put out some great pure gens along the way, and the first real test of this will be the narrowed f3 z99 lines.
Onto this gen though, the f2s. i found the shorter flowering expressions great, but the longer flowering ones really float my boat, i think you wil be most happy with those ones.
Your pics are looking lovely m8, and the mbs you have looks lovely too, cant wait to hear your opinion on the puff on them.
Anyways great to see you over here m8
much respect
moonunit