Well... Scot, I gotta thank you for sticking by, cause I feel like we are very alike in the way we think about things. Its saddens me that you got such a bad weather condition in the UK, cause I envy all the grimy scene, jungle, DnB, filthstep. PLUS its legal to sell he seeds as souvenir. So... its just perfect!Yer I like a lot of the Ryder Genetics too - I started with Lowryder (regulars) - then the feminised Lowryder 2's. And like you the low size makes them discreet for an outdoor grow in the garden (which is shared tho I am the gardener). Neither of these were great croppers in our unpredictable Northern Climate. But this year I decided to try some of the x's. So I had 3x Diesel Ryders - they cropped well but all suffered from a bit of mould, and 3x Purple Ryders (a Purple Kush cross with Lowryder 2 if my memory serves me) - those were really nice n very sticky with lots of sugar leaves (finger licking good as they say)- tho quite a speedy smoke (hide your movie collection or you might end up staying up half the night smoking weed and watching shite on TV).
I got a load of freebies form Herbies Seeds (thanks guys, they really went out on a limb when twice they couldn't fulfil a requested order) - so have 3 each of Chronic Ryder and Pakistan Ryder for next years season as freebies to try as well tho I will def order more of the Diesel Ryders too, they had a nice balance of THC/CBD for me, aka enough munchie effect to counteract the Opiates i'm prescribed in terms of appetite loss, and enough CBD to offer some additional pain relief which means I don't need the Opiates as much which is a win win.
Those will form my 'base' crop - but I also have some Dark Devil Autos (another purple kush x) and having read so much about them on AFN a couple of Mephistos to try (tho I might give them to a Spanish friend in the hope of free weed when im there next summer - cunning but I suspect they will do much better there than here lol). With mould being such an issue this year I'm also thinking of going back to some Auto Frisian Dew's which worked well in the past too.
Unfortunately our growing season is so short that it's really a one crop affair - tho I do stagger them - so I really doubt that without a greenhouse I could ever pull a plant to fully mature seeds. So it's a strictly bud affair here - but developing your own x's may be the way forward in the future.
The past 'scientist' bit of me baulks at randomly pollinating my ladies though - I'd want to know what they were crossed with and then to compare the results of new F1's against a grow of the original parents (I used to work in large greenhouses doing this commercially with potatoes and peas, and like you live in a backward country with a draconian drug policy), but if it were legalised I got a 30m x 20m plot ready to go... who needs fruit n veg lol.
One of the surprises that I love in the Autos is that you still get the occasional expression of the parentage phenos (since they normally only stabilise at F3 for something you can sell as a breeder) - my favouroutes being some of the dwarf Sativa phenos that can sometimes appear - it's like wtf are you little girl - not showing the traits of the bought seeds - but it always seems like the ruderalis is locked in and I've never had a bolter that grew above 1m high or didn't AF.
All cool - I look forward to popping in to see how it goes for you.
;-) gosh, how I luv british culture!
But lets speak about the journal:
My experience with Diesel Ryders has shown that they are prone to mold, due to their PHAT bud structure... but on the long run, it simply has shown to resist to the mold also.
What I meant to say is that it will mold if its grown under rainy environment (outdoor) But it will not perish to the mold.
By a matter of fact, its very resistant!
Atleast I ran a seed crop and got it right... the buds were ruined by mold and mites of all kind (seriously, like atleast 3 or 4)... but I harvested plenty of seeds, hopefully.
In a certain way, this strain is trully "strong" and resistant.
BY THE WAY...
Today I've brought Good and Bad news...
My seeds moulded rather than pop open. I guess I'm a convicted newbie! Ahahahha
But... #2 and #3 are fine and Imma show ya'll how #3 is!
The Female #1 has sort of lowryder bud structure, I guess... 5 buds. Starting to glisten in resin. But nothing SUPREME. The smell... has to be diesel'ish, but its not strong as fuck... I am aware that the tendency is to increase and get stronger. But Perhaps my first hibridization has worked better than I could ever expect! [emoji23]
(The fallen pistils indicates that shes mature enough to be polinized.
My crop doesn't seem to be much more than these 5 popcorns.
But its budding up and Ill try not to be pessimist.)
About #2, it sure is a female... cause its main stem has shown signs of flowering, as branches are no more paralel... and theres no sign of sexing yet. And girls take a little longer to show their pistils.
#3 is slightly younger... as thw branches are super paralel.
But theres a weird flourishing on top of it. And as an experient grower I can tell: POLEM SACKS! WOOOHOOO!!!
Hopefully there shall be pollination, seeds and more and more backyard experiences!
;-)
Thanks for all the insane growth karma!
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