What i can tell you first hand is that any and all commercial and non commercial autos based on the lowryder has the capacity to produce seeds all the way up to latitude 71 north at the north cape of arctic Norway.
It is remarkably cold resistant, just as if it originated in a cold land.
What im saying is that dont waste your time looking for the most cold resistant strain, all autos are remarkably cold resistant, something i discovered during the 2011 outdoor season when i harvested fully ripe short term amnezias at latitude 70 north. Out of 77 plants and 17 strains that we planted out, none of them succame to cold, every one of them produced flowers.
I think automatic cannabis is an ecotype of cannabis that is native in a far northern region of this world where there is close to no darkness during summer nights. It is remarkably cold resistant, in fact its extremely cold resistant.
The first male always pollinates theory is SO flawed that i cba to give it any more attention, its borderline ridiculous.
I do have information that can help shed light on what autos are and where they came from originally, it is however a very looong and tedious affair to explain so it will have to be something i do piece by piece through this year.
Let me just first show you that there is historical evidence of cannabis growing in northern scandinavia. Here is a mapsection to a farm called "hampland" in a region of arctic norway called "Kvenangen". We have no solid documentation that hemp was actually grown here, but there is some circumstansial evidence, among them a boat from 850 AD recovered in the area where hemp rope was used to bind it. Place names with the word "hemp or hamp" exists all over scandinavia in all countries.
http://travelingluck.com/Europe/Norway/Troms/_800562_Hampland.html#local_map
zoom out and it will give you an idea of whereabouts this is in the world.
Now the region called "kvenangen" takes its name from the people that lives there, these people are called "kvens" and they migrated to the arctic coast of Norway from northern Sweden and Finland. The "kvens" was once a large and powerful nation that controlled most of arctic Europe including parts of Russia.
It is considered a historical fact that it was the "kven" people that brought farming to arctic scandinavia, and their descendants are today still the only culture that farms inside the arctic region. During the little ice age however (1650AD to 1850AD), the crops failed massively throughout northern scandinavia and the remaining "kvens" was forced to migrate. Kvenland was a country until approximately the 12th century. Many kvens moved south and have been integrated into different european modern countries, but some moved north to the arctic coast of Norway where there are some few thousands that still know the ancient language and still call themselves "kven". It is very much a culture that is in danger of disappearing completely, most people of kven heritage does not know about their history and does not call themselves kven. The ethnic groups in arctic scandinavia is today almost completely intermixed and only fragments of the ancient cultures remains. The natives in teh region therefor do not konw anymore if they belong to this that or the other culture, and yes there are many different ones.. everything from forest people, to farmers, herders and fishermen.. etc.
Its important to realize however that much of the farming culture that existed up until the little ice age may have been lost during these migrations, lost or mixed up with some other culture until its unrecognizeable.
I will write more about the kven people and why i think they was a cannabis farming people. This will take quite some time to explain, because we dont exactly learn in school about the ancient tribes of scandinavia so ill have to bring a lot of supplemental info to the table.
.. to be continued.
