I have several strains of Eastern European Ruderalis I use for making hybrids.
Its more of a life long project than a hobby.
The issue with any of these strains is.
And I'm going to inumerate the qualities and short comings.
Ruderalis is as mentioned a weed, there's nothing pretty about it.
It grows very scraggly with long nodes and few branches (LST is probably your only option to get any valume of bud).
The plants generaly grow to under 3 feet high, so you're going to need a shit load of them to have any kind of volume.
Depending on your grow limit, this may be an issue.
Some are feminised seed, but you want to work with regulars ...so 1/2 the harvest is coming from males.
Ok now for the good stuff:
Ruderalis isn't to PH finicky like most other strains I've grown, making this plant good for begginers.
By nature it's an autoflower, so harvest will be in the 90-100 day period.
It's greatest feature/trait is the plants ability to deal with cold temperatures (especially at night).
Again, these plants were geneticaly designed to contend with our northern climate.
Depending upon where in North America you live, you can squeeze out 2 harvests per year with an outdoor grow.
This would allow you to get/select the phenos you're looking for the traits in F1, F2, in year one.
And subsequent years producing much better plants.
Until you feminise the seeds or start growing hermies.
You will get a crazy amount of seeds from just 1 plant.
A single 2 foot female can easily produce 50 to 100 seeds.
And the offspring will be just as God aweful ugly as mom and dad
In terms of CBD content, all things considered, Ruderalis would be the favoured way to go for sure.
Will it be easy, yes.
Will it take time and space, yes again.
If the choice to do an indoor grow should arise.
Another trait of these plants is that they hardly smell at all, even in full flower.
So you could grow 3 to four plants for seed indoors without even a hint of stink.
In an ideal world.
I'd advise to cross as pure a Rudy as you can commercialy find (
https://www.cannapot.com/shop/cannabis-seeds/nativcanna/russian-auto-cbd_seeds.html
with another know high CBD strain
https://www.cannapot.com/shop/canna...seeds/alpine-delight-cbd-automatic_seeds.html
This is not an "off the sheft" solution.
But it will work and be tailored to the exact needs at hand.
Getting seeds from Cannapot is a challenge these days because the European postal systems are running slower than usual.
Expected delays to North America are in the 3 week range.
Cheers,
GC