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CaptnFalconius

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Hello friends, I’m a new member and a curious person, I’ve heard about the mythical Ducks foot and Grinspoon strains. It’s got me wondering if anyone’s experimented in trying to create their own steal plants with abnormal bud production. If so what was the phenotype you started with, conditions, environment, and any tips you have would be great. I know ducks foot is a clone only but, there has to be some way to cause this mutation With the abnormal bud production of Grinspoon. Thanks!
 
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The best mutation I've seen yet is freak show by Dark Heart Nursery. Legit looks like a fern.

Mutations can be chemically induced or a product of inbredding lines to far. It's not really something you can easily make. It's like when my boss told me to make a viral video. It's like dude, I can make a video, but it going viral is out of my control, but it happens. So thats how I'll sum that up. Do check out the freekshow though!

... I grabbed a pic
 
That is an awesome mutation! I have to agree that is probably the coolest mutation i have seen too. I had a plant with polyploidism which gave me buds that looked like a Magnum ice cream bar but those leaves are crazy!
 
Thats crazy are they of 1 plant or a load of plants would of like to see the plant they came from wonder what the buds looked like
 
Eh- that depends on how many genes are responsible for the trait & whether they are dominant or recessive. I can freeze a trait in 3-5 generations- especially a readily visible one. Strain longevity & stability is better served taking 7-10 gen. Especially if you want to consider other important traits like potency, plant structure & stem size/strength, flowering time, disease resistance.... etc & etc.
A quick finger count says I can get in 3 or 4 gen runs/ yr if I only veg long enough to note disease resistance, plant structure, & light sensitivity before flowering.
Granted my 50yr lifelong experience is limited to breeding animals but the science came from Mendel's peas so......
 
One of the tricks with a strain like this is, you HAVE to run big numbers. It's such a recessive trait, it may come up in 1 of 1000 offspring from the parent that already shows the trait, which you would then have to find and backcross to the parent to continually lock down that genetic trait.
 
JDU I can agree on it taking less time to do traits that are common, breading freaks is not so common, not that we dont all see mutations/freaks in our grows. They for the most part dont reproduce it on a regular basis. I would like to grow Freakshow to see it, however it is only 15% THC, I wounder how the rest of its profile stacks up!?!
And maybe I should have said generations rather than years, just shows I grow outside mostly.
 
Some years ago I was telling a dude bit about a trip down the highway, one area I smelled our favorite smell. I was on the job no time to stop and look in the woods., on the way back both sides of the highway were lined with LEOs and going into the woods in the direction of the odor. Certainly did not stop then, later I am telling this to a dude I had just meet, he said it was his patch. But this is where it got odd, and at that time I thought he was pulling my leg. His claim was he had crossed MJ with Hops to make a MJ vine, he laughed and said they will stand in the patch with buds hanging from the surrounding trees all around them, and never find it.
Skip ahead, its now legal here and I get online and start doing some real studies to see how far behind I am. (a long damn way). I find articles on grafting MJ, and grafting MJ to Hops, then I find articles on crossbreeding MJ to Hops. It seems one must alter the hops head so the MJ pollen can get in, and they will cross (they are cousins), and can make a MJ vine or a hops bush. Stealth would only last until its found out.
 
The lab test results I saw were 18.78% THC and 2.12% terpenes. Mostly a-Pinene, b-Pinene and Terpinolene, some Myrcene and Limonene, traces of some others.
 
Rwise I thought of the fact you grow outdoors while I was making coffee & chuckled that we basically said the same thing- years/generations lol. Yeah mutations can be tricky. But fun.
15% is actually not to shabby & shows that the developers took more than the mutation to heart when they isolated it. They could've let everything else fall by the wayside while concentrating on the leaves.
 
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