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Damn, I'm really bad at this whole grow journal thing. Almost a year has passed since I last posted in here, but I feel like I owe you guys a bit of an update.
I obviously finished my last autoflower breeding run, and the results were bittersweet. While I accomplished my mission of hunting through over 100 plants for a couple of winning phenotypes to breed with, overall the last run was kind of disappointing. Root aphids really hit my plants hard in the middle, to the end of flower, and by the time I was even able to identify the problem both yields, vigor and quality had been drastically effected. Right in the critical time that the flowers began to swell and they put on that final thick coat of frost, the plant's development and maturation slowed to an almost complete halt, and the girls seemed to take forever to finish. While I was able to finally beat them with a mixture of a couple pyrethrins root drenches, enzymes, and predatory nematodes, by the time they were beaten the damage had already been done.
The plants may have certainly suffered, but luckily I was still able to find a handful of keeper phenotypes to play with/ID, and get a few hundred reg seeds from said select phenotypes out of the deal.
Here were a few favorites of mine out of that run... I'll post up some smoke reports or grow reports if there is interest later on.
Blulight (Haze Pheno) [Blueberry headband x Headlights Kush [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG]]
This pheno came out with nonsensical amounts of resin, and outrageous blueberry terps. Dare I say that it smells more blueberry that DJ Short's Blueberry? Flowers were not the largest or densest, but quality more than made up for it.
Blulight (Blueberry Headband dominant pheno)
Love love loved the bud structure on this bad girl. Extremely tight and dense flowers with a very respectable calyx to leaf ratio. This pheno contained just a hair less trichomes than the haze pheno, but was still beautifully crystal coated. Its smell was softer and less outrageous than the other phenotype, but still a delicious mixture of earth and blueberries. If only I could get the best of these two pheno's in one, we'd really be playing with fire! Luckily for me I still have like 200 more beans to sort through, so the possibilities of me finding exactly that are not the worst, and if not I can cross the two phenotypes to produce my F3 generation (even though that would split what ever genetic uniformity I had already worked on....)
Northbound Train [Fantasmo Express x Headlights Kush]
Overall this strain came out pretty uniform in structure and quality, other than some size difference between plants. Plants were relatively short in stature, and were very quick to go into flower. The flowers she produced were quite large and had a decent calyx to leaf ratio. Buds had a tendency to foxtail a bit (as I would expect with it's mostly sativa heritage) but still retained good density. Smell was very enjoyable but overall not incredibly odoriferous. The plants would not smell at all until you brushed up on the plant or gave the flowers a little finger hug, then the musty, dank raw earth smell would tickle your nostrils. Bred with two different phenotypes from this run. Really looking forward to working with them in the upcoming months!
The White Widow x HLK's were hands down my favorite of the bunch. While they did not autoflower like I had initially hoped, they turned out to be some of the most beautiful and fastest finishing photoperiod hybrids that I have ever played with, and the flowers absolutely knocked my socks off.
Most of the plants finished out in a glorious 45-50 days after the flip from 12/12 and yielded generously. These flowers were among some of the most resinous I have ever played with, yielding over 25% on extracts and certainly was not shy in the terpene department. Odors ranged from burnt rubber and cloves, to sweet pastries. Outside, the keeper phenotypes of this strain finished between September 1st and 5th, well before the autumn rains.
This girl is going to be a cornerstone in my catalog for quite some time.
So I hate to bring threads back from the dead, but this adventure is far from done! I have just recently moved to a new state where I am now allowed to legally grow and breed at a much larger scale, and let's just say I'm ready to get the party started!
I obviously finished my last autoflower breeding run, and the results were bittersweet. While I accomplished my mission of hunting through over 100 plants for a couple of winning phenotypes to breed with, overall the last run was kind of disappointing. Root aphids really hit my plants hard in the middle, to the end of flower, and by the time I was even able to identify the problem both yields, vigor and quality had been drastically effected. Right in the critical time that the flowers began to swell and they put on that final thick coat of frost, the plant's development and maturation slowed to an almost complete halt, and the girls seemed to take forever to finish. While I was able to finally beat them with a mixture of a couple pyrethrins root drenches, enzymes, and predatory nematodes, by the time they were beaten the damage had already been done.
The plants may have certainly suffered, but luckily I was still able to find a handful of keeper phenotypes to play with/ID, and get a few hundred reg seeds from said select phenotypes out of the deal.
Here were a few favorites of mine out of that run... I'll post up some smoke reports or grow reports if there is interest later on.
Blulight (Haze Pheno) [Blueberry headband x Headlights Kush [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG]]
This pheno came out with nonsensical amounts of resin, and outrageous blueberry terps. Dare I say that it smells more blueberry that DJ Short's Blueberry? Flowers were not the largest or densest, but quality more than made up for it.
Blulight (Blueberry Headband dominant pheno)
Love love loved the bud structure on this bad girl. Extremely tight and dense flowers with a very respectable calyx to leaf ratio. This pheno contained just a hair less trichomes than the haze pheno, but was still beautifully crystal coated. Its smell was softer and less outrageous than the other phenotype, but still a delicious mixture of earth and blueberries. If only I could get the best of these two pheno's in one, we'd really be playing with fire! Luckily for me I still have like 200 more beans to sort through, so the possibilities of me finding exactly that are not the worst, and if not I can cross the two phenotypes to produce my F3 generation (even though that would split what ever genetic uniformity I had already worked on....)
Northbound Train [Fantasmo Express x Headlights Kush]
Overall this strain came out pretty uniform in structure and quality, other than some size difference between plants. Plants were relatively short in stature, and were very quick to go into flower. The flowers she produced were quite large and had a decent calyx to leaf ratio. Buds had a tendency to foxtail a bit (as I would expect with it's mostly sativa heritage) but still retained good density. Smell was very enjoyable but overall not incredibly odoriferous. The plants would not smell at all until you brushed up on the plant or gave the flowers a little finger hug, then the musty, dank raw earth smell would tickle your nostrils. Bred with two different phenotypes from this run. Really looking forward to working with them in the upcoming months!
The White Widow x HLK's were hands down my favorite of the bunch. While they did not autoflower like I had initially hoped, they turned out to be some of the most beautiful and fastest finishing photoperiod hybrids that I have ever played with, and the flowers absolutely knocked my socks off.
Most of the plants finished out in a glorious 45-50 days after the flip from 12/12 and yielded generously. These flowers were among some of the most resinous I have ever played with, yielding over 25% on extracts and certainly was not shy in the terpene department. Odors ranged from burnt rubber and cloves, to sweet pastries. Outside, the keeper phenotypes of this strain finished between September 1st and 5th, well before the autumn rains.
This girl is going to be a cornerstone in my catalog for quite some time.
So I hate to bring threads back from the dead, but this adventure is far from done! I have just recently moved to a new state where I am now allowed to legally grow and breed at a much larger scale, and let's just say I'm ready to get the party started!
