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Hi everyone!! I just wanted to start this thread for anyone that is currently or would be interested in an auto X photo cross
This is my story:
A couple autumns ago (2009) I did an outdoor grow that resulted in a cross between a super stinky lemony-ish Mazar-i-sharif female (Gypsy Nirvana freebie) with an auto-ak47 male. It was the only male I had, and I thought that the resulting genetic expression might make for some interesting circumstances. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect as a result and I was pretty sure that it would take another generation to show the auto trait, but from what I had seen from other people's work, the results could have been a somewhat earlier finishing strain.
The following year (2010), myself and a friend grew out about 10 of the offspring of the mazar-i-sharif x auto ak cross outdoors and none of them autoflowered, though they did begin flowering a bit earlier than other strains that I grew out (just as I had expected). The plants were very uniform, growing to be roughly 5' tall and pulling in a 1/4 pound each.
This year I wanted to try to get an early harvest in the spring by vegging some plants indoors and putting them outside as soon as the weather warmed up, possibly taking advantage of the shorter days to induce flowering. I used the f2 generation {(mazar-i-sharif x auto ak) x (mazar-i-sharif x auto ak)} of the cross that I made because I did not want to waste beans that I had bought with good money.
The seeds were all paper towel germed the 3rd week of January and kept under combo'd LED ufo and CFL lighting 24/7. I ended up putting three healthy 9" plants of unknown sex outside in the 2nd week of March, after one 24hr period of darkness. I have heard that 24 hr of dark might speed up the process.
I would have liked to put them out sooner, but this year was unusually cold. This year was so cold, in fact, that all three plants went into shock and had 90% of their leaves dying due to night temps in the teens and some daytime temps in the 20's. Last year I would have felt NO apprehension to putting them out 2-3 weeks earlier. I had thought that the later date might have had just enough daylight to cause them to stay in vegetative mode because after several weeks of waiting I observed that none of the plants flowered and I thought that my mission was a failure.
Throughout April I occassionally cared for the plants and they slowly came back to being lively and green. I topped all three and they began branching out very nicely. After a being away from the plants for a couple of weeks, I came back to check on them and found two of them to be very healthy looking and about 3' tall and one flailing about at around 13". As it it turns out, the two bigger ones have begun flowering around mid May. The smaller one, admittedly, is receiving less full sun, which is most likely why it is not as vigorous as the other two.
While all three went into shock due to the ridiculously cold March we had this year, I couldn't help but think that maybe the ruderalis in them could have prevented them from flowering due to photoperiod. Apparently, there is now a category of "Super-autos" that have a similar style of growth as these plants, taking about ~2 months to begin flowering regardless of photoperiod. I am assuming that this means that their breeding style is similar as well.
Here's to a late July/early August harvest!!!!
This is my story:
A couple autumns ago (2009) I did an outdoor grow that resulted in a cross between a super stinky lemony-ish Mazar-i-sharif female (Gypsy Nirvana freebie) with an auto-ak47 male. It was the only male I had, and I thought that the resulting genetic expression might make for some interesting circumstances. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect as a result and I was pretty sure that it would take another generation to show the auto trait, but from what I had seen from other people's work, the results could have been a somewhat earlier finishing strain.
The following year (2010), myself and a friend grew out about 10 of the offspring of the mazar-i-sharif x auto ak cross outdoors and none of them autoflowered, though they did begin flowering a bit earlier than other strains that I grew out (just as I had expected). The plants were very uniform, growing to be roughly 5' tall and pulling in a 1/4 pound each.
This year I wanted to try to get an early harvest in the spring by vegging some plants indoors and putting them outside as soon as the weather warmed up, possibly taking advantage of the shorter days to induce flowering. I used the f2 generation {(mazar-i-sharif x auto ak) x (mazar-i-sharif x auto ak)} of the cross that I made because I did not want to waste beans that I had bought with good money.
The seeds were all paper towel germed the 3rd week of January and kept under combo'd LED ufo and CFL lighting 24/7. I ended up putting three healthy 9" plants of unknown sex outside in the 2nd week of March, after one 24hr period of darkness. I have heard that 24 hr of dark might speed up the process.
I would have liked to put them out sooner, but this year was unusually cold. This year was so cold, in fact, that all three plants went into shock and had 90% of their leaves dying due to night temps in the teens and some daytime temps in the 20's. Last year I would have felt NO apprehension to putting them out 2-3 weeks earlier. I had thought that the later date might have had just enough daylight to cause them to stay in vegetative mode because after several weeks of waiting I observed that none of the plants flowered and I thought that my mission was a failure.
Throughout April I occassionally cared for the plants and they slowly came back to being lively and green. I topped all three and they began branching out very nicely. After a being away from the plants for a couple of weeks, I came back to check on them and found two of them to be very healthy looking and about 3' tall and one flailing about at around 13". As it it turns out, the two bigger ones have begun flowering around mid May. The smaller one, admittedly, is receiving less full sun, which is most likely why it is not as vigorous as the other two.
While all three went into shock due to the ridiculously cold March we had this year, I couldn't help but think that maybe the ruderalis in them could have prevented them from flowering due to photoperiod. Apparently, there is now a category of "Super-autos" that have a similar style of growth as these plants, taking about ~2 months to begin flowering regardless of photoperiod. I am assuming that this means that their breeding style is similar as well.
Here's to a late July/early August harvest!!!!
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