All of my crosses for spring!

[mattinuk3]

Hey guys got lots of crosses going on over here. I decided to grow all F1 mixed autoflower photoperiods this year, and no pure photoperiods. The clear advantage is being able to flower 3 weeks to a month earlier, which, in my temperate climate means big, sativa dominant plants are now a possibility. It also means indica plants will be out of the way by mid september. If they start flowering in the middle of july, I can have up to 15 weeks of outdoor flowering.

I have observed that, when crossing auto to photo, the F1 generation are all photoperiods, but flower at reduced night hours compared to their photoperiod parent. However, I haven't crossed autos into any photos that are already known to be early flowering. I have heard in this case a lot of autos pop up in the F1.

So, the first plant in the breeding program was a stud auto assassin. He was 2 and a half feet tall, medium node spacing and skinny long leaves compared to his brothers. I have had some of his pollen in the freezer, and a month ago I used it to pollinate a hazier pheno of Samurai Jack. I now have about 100 of these seeds, which i'm germinating on Monday! In the F2 I am going to select for raised trichomes and flavors from the auto assassin side, and haze buds and plant structure from the Samurai Jack side.

However, 3 of the Samurai Jack females hermied out of 5. Not terrible hermying, just a few (most looked sterile) nanners here and there. Thankfully not my auto assassin mother. One of the plants pollinated itself and I got 20 or so seeds from that. Not sure if they're worth keeping considering the plant didn't receive too much stress when it threw out pollen sacks. Hopefully LBH sees this and gives some advice.

The next plant in the program is an early finishing winner from my first breeding attempt 2 years ago. I call it Fast Ryder, but I'm sure that somewhere there is already a strain out there called that. So for no confusion, this is my cross.It is a cross of sweet seeds fast bud and a non-autoflowering Nirvana short ryder. Out of 20 or so seeds, some autoed and some didnt. This is a cut of the best photoperiod sensitive of the bunch. REEKs like lemon and diesel, and great resin coverage for an autoflowering cross. I hit this heterozygote (meaning it has the auto gene, but it is masked by the dominant photoperiod gene) with some auto assassin pollen, so I'm expecting 50/50 auto and photo from the cross. The fast ryder cut finishes by sept 20th, so I'm expecting those non-auto from this cross to be done by the 15th or maybe earlier.

I also pollinated my Connie Chung with some auto assassin! This cross is gonna be a winner. Connie is a great all around buzz, super resin coverage and nice and heady. The goal with the auto assassin cross is to maintain the same heady buzz and limey chocolatey hazey taste, but harvest september 25th instead of october 25th.

I also pollinated the best of 5 super lemon hazes with auto assassin. They all had the same smell, but some had heaver resin and some longer colas)If you could only see the resin coverage this plant is making! I'll have to send a reply from tapatalk to upload a pic from my phone. Couldn't tell you about the buzz yet, but they're getting chopped monday minus the seeded mom. Chances are that this strain wouldn't finish out here in my climate, so I'm hoping to keep the potency and long flowering time, but get it to start it's shit into high gear a month earlier.

I also have a suuuuper frosty purple jem x auto assassin F1. Much more resiny than either parent. This one got back crossed to the auto assassin and is loaded with seeds. So it will be 3/4 AA and 1/4 PJ. No idea if any purple will carry into this back cross, but i'm after taste here.

I have a smaller Bleithir auto that got some assassin dust. Wiz will have to chime in on this one, not exactly sure of the genetics. I think its Black Dragon back crossed to Deep Chunk. Its super kushy, with nice earthy, rubbery, solvent-y smells coming off of it.

I have an amazonian Bleithir that is twice the size of her littler sister. This one is going to carry on the pure bleithir line. I cloned the bottom branches and have two healthy clones. I'm surprised they haven't taken off faster after establishing roots. I would say they're a solid month behind their mom. I have an inky blackish purple male bleither that is just waiting to spew his load all over her.

 

[mattinuk3]

Super lemon haze

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[surffreak23]

Sounds like you've been doing some work there, good luck to ya! They all sound like great possibilities! :thumbs:

 

[mattinuk3]

Thanks surffreak! Its nice to see everything finally come together.

So I counted and I have 4 fully auto lines: Samurai Jack x Auto Assassin,( (Purple Jem x Auto Assassin) x Auto Assassin), Bleithir x Auto Assassin, Bleithir x Bleithir.

Then I have one that will be half auto, half photoperiod Fast Ryder x Auto Assassin.

And then I have Super Lemon Haze and Connie Chung both crossed to Auto Assassin to start my first (from scratch) auto to photo breeding

 

[mattinuk3]

Hey guys. Good news and bad news on the project. Earlier this spring m safe got stolen with all but a few of my seeds in it. However, I already had 20 samurai jack x auto assassin germinated so the line wasnt lost forever. Most F1 were similar, with a few that I strongly suspect of being an F2 of the samurai jack because the samurai jack made a few pollen sacks during the same run that I pollinated it with the auto assassin.

Out of the F1, many were 12 weekers seed to weed and fairly stoney compared to the Samurai Jack. Out of that same batch that was germinated in March, I still have two that are flowering so slow its unbelievable. They're 7 weeks in since the first preflowers (EDIT: just checked the calendar, and they've been budding for 10 weeks! so slow) and still only have maybe 10 calyxes at each branch site. These have to be a pure Samurai Jack, and probably are a throwback to either Haze or Thai grandparents since they are budding so slow. These seem like they may flower for 18 weeks or more.

Anyways, the F1 are done and finished. Here is a pic of the F1 female I used to carry on the line. She had a hazey smell, hazey buzz, but ALSO had raised trichomes. Usually raised trichomes are a sign of heavy stone, but this plant had me soaring like the Samurai Jack with absolutely no comedown stone - you just drift down to baseline with no negative effects like munchies or tiredness.

The buzz was identical to Samurai Jack but much more potent because of the raised trichomes. I would hazard a guess that samurai jack is only 9-12%. It had such a light dusting of small trichomes and wasn't at all a "white" strain. However, once you smoked enough to get to where you wanted to be (about 1.5-2x what you would smoke of something at 18%) the buzz was unparalleled. By far the best buzz i've ever had in my life. The goal with this cross is to keep the heady cannabinoid ratio, but increase potency to make it some 3-5 hit kind of stuff rather than the 8-10 hits it took off pure samurai jack.

I will keep you guys updated on the diversity seen in the F2. I will continue to pollinate long flowering females that also have raised trichomes. Since neither SJ nor AA are known for exceptional aromas, breeding for aromas is low on the priority list.

Anyways, check out these pics! I would say that this particular example from the F1 is at least 17%. See the fluff to the buds? Much more surface area for those trichomes compared to a rock hard indica bud! Full, tall, densely packed trichomes on every inside surface of the bud, compared to sparse, squished trichomes on the inside of an indica bud. And the buzz! This female only flowered for 13 weeks, but it was sooo uppy.

 

[mattinuk3]

The next project is to pollinate the super lemon haze with one of these SJ x AA males. I already had seeds from SLH x AA, but those were some of the ones that got stolen. I also need to pollinate the Connie Chung with a male. The only photo to auto line I have left to work with this summer is (SJ x AA male) x Great White Shark. These are growing along right now, and are due to start flowering from shortening daylight hours any time now. I'll throw up some pics of that when it gets interesting because nobody likes to look at foot tall, vegging plants. I'm so bummed that I'm not growing out the Connie or SLH crosses, because those are the two most potent photos I've seen. Both surely over 20%, and the SLH cut is the best of 5 females that we grew, so it's for sure over 20%. Just look at the pics of the SLH in the first post.