F1 Shedding a lot, Help!

[Pauline]

How do you know if he is just blowing his puppy coat or he is just really a shedder? My 8 month old F1 sheds like crazy! He went through the very confused scruffy scraggly coat, but not scruffy anymore after his first hair cut at 5 months old. Here he is now at 8 months old with light curls. He has always been shedding, but now he is shedding SO much. Now he is 50+ pounds and shedding a lot, like when he shakes you will see hair blowing off like confetti, and also big tumble weeds of coat around the house. His hair is also very coarse and dry to touch, especially the back part. I was hoping his coat would change to a curlier and softer one that doesn't shed, or sheds very lightly. I posted a blog if you would like to see his growth and coat changes, maybe any owner can relate? Love him anyways! He is a pure love bug too! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[J and Riley (and Luna)]

Sounds to me like he is getting rid of his puppy coat but is also a shedder. Riley shed and matted A LOT at around 8 months and after that she still sheds quite a bit though not as much.  She has a double coat and only her undercoat seems to shed.

He is adorable :)

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

It's very rare that puppy shedding lessens as the dog gets older. It's usually the opposite; the shedding usually becomes heavier. It's also very rare that a coat becomes softer and less wirey. Again, the opposite is usually the case. Even purebred Poodles have very soft puppy coats that "harden" as the dog matures. And the wiriest, wooliest hair is usually on their backs; that's the case with my Jasper. 

My Jack was an F1 who shed exactly the way you describe; I could see the hairs flying off him when he shook himself, especially in bright sunlight. He shed 24/7, 365 days a year. There are a lot of dogs here who have wavy, curly, doodle-y coats and still shed fairly heavily all their lives. We have a group here of Shedding Doodles, take a look at the different kinds of coats on the members' dogs, and all of them shed. https://doodlekisses.com/group/sheddingdoodles?commentId=2065244%3A...
I can't speak to coat changes, because I got Jack as an adult, and all of my other dogs were purebred Poodles, plus one mix who had two non-shedding parent breeds, so no shedding in any of them. Poodles do not shed their coats during the coat change. The hair just gets coarser, thicker, and wirier; it doesn't fall out.
But when you have a dog who gets half his genes from a heavily shedding breed like a Lab or a Golden, it just makes sense to expect them to shed, regardless of what the people who are selling them say. In fact, 70% of all F1s do shed. 

There are fatty acid supplements like fish oil and evening primrose oil that can help with a dry coat and dry skin, but they don't change the amount of shedding.
Your pup is adorable. Enjoy him. And stock up on lint rollers, lol. 

[Stacy]

My girl looks kind of like your pup, and I'm really curious what her coat is going to do too. I expected her to shed because she's an F1 and she's more shaggy than curly, but so far she isn't at all. She gets her first puppy cut next Tuesday. After my baby Katie got her first hair cut her coat was completely different. She was long and wavy as a baby, but then more curly as an adult. These doodles are kind of like a box of chocolates!! Baby Willow is on the right. Katie is far left. I didn't have Maggie in the middle when she was a baby, so I don't know what her puppy coat was like.