Very nice post Bob, incredible interesting.Everyone enjoying the holiday's so far?
Thanks! Mephisto sells only feminized seed. I did get my hands on several Mephisto crosses, all crossed with a regular auto Coal Miner's Daughter from Gnome. This resulted in regular auto crosses for me to play with. I've selected the Mephisto's Wedding because of her white appearance and even though it says on their site that there's no White Widow in it's lineage, it still has loads of "coincidental" similarities, but little to no flavour. But it has a vast population of trichomes covering every part of her buds and sugar leaves. Also Medically, it's cured buds ease my backpains for which I otherwise have to take benzo's... So I (back)crossed a male from the new hybrid with two original Mephisto's Wedding girls. One ending up large and fluffy = no good. And one smaller of size. With rock hard buds, loads of flavour going from fruity to vanilla cream cookies and even menthol. The latter I didn't like to be honest. But not all F1's ended up like that, so there was loads of choices to be made. I inbred several sweet F1's I liked to an F2 and those genetics will be used to autofy the Widows
Also, I've had some serious time over the holidays to get my stone on and read up on a whole lot of books I found online, I start dreaming of what to be...And so I opened up my diagram tool and started all over again. This time having my Punnett calculator right beside me...
If I lay both diagrams beside each other there is a clear difference...
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- The left one, being the original genogram I shared in the 1st post, is more concentrated on creating two separate inbred lines, each connected to the original parent. Only at the end both lines are interbred to fixate both genetics into a new line.
- The right genogram is inbreeding both parents, each one after the other. And by doing so, no more creating two separate lines, but having one large mixed pool to choose from, but I suppose there will also be much more variance in this one...
I know this is a very advanced topic and that this knowledge could be classed as "proprietary", but can anyone with the knowledge and experience in breeding (ahum @shantibaba β₯ pretty please) tell me which one would be preferred? And why? Or is there a better way of doing things? Remember, I'm still learning
I would be very much obliged
Regards,
Bob![]()
Hopefully someone with real experience like shantibaba will follow up and I am signing to follow your project. Well done!
I will grow Mephisto in few weeks ( including wedding) and I always though to cross Mephisto not to achieve autos, but photos and have a keeper ( M.wedding is junk seed genetics!!!) ( I am considering Girl Scout Cookies actually for my project).
I was to the idea that backcrossing is not so easy to plan. I mean that you can use backcrossing to stabilise or reinforce certain trait, but this is difficult if not impossible to anticipate 2-3 generations in advance when and to which to backcross.
Sorry to jump on your thread without knowledge to support...but it's very interesting!
NOTE: Mephisto did a survey for future strains and one of the most mentioned new ideas was exactly BW X ( girl scout cookies, wedding, Toof decay, mango Smile and others)....but the base ( which don't need to be the female necessarily) was White Widow!!!! You should talk with Tim and Mitch
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