Highland Ganja Auto Sativa Breeding Stramash

[Hoots]

So,

I have a plan, a very simple plan.

It goes like this,

Lowryder, 14 days

X
Malawi,

And,

Panama,

And,

Golden Tiger,

Where the F2's will be grown outside here for selection,

Have a good one,



(more to follow but its afae late!)

 

[zaQ]

Nice first post! Warm welcome!... Now time for wake-n-bake..

 

[direhit]

Eh nice schematic. I'm 1/4 scottish myself, just thought id mention while the wheels spinnin. Welcome to afn!

 

[agito]

welcome mate bet its cold up there this time of the year!

 

[Red eyed c]

It's cold up there everytime of the year mate but a lovely place to visit

 

[agito]

fook that its cold enough here and i cant grow half the stuff what they grow down south even with a polytunel

 

[La Buena Hierba]

aaaaaaaaaaa good too see you pots it here too bro

keep us updated my friend

peace

 

[Hoots]

Cheers everyone, what a grand welcome

Sounds like great plan!
Look forward to following along & seeing the end results
Good Luck!

Cheers Thai Budda Man, looking forward to the end results myself!

Nice first post! Warm welcome!... Now time for wake-n-bake..

:thumbs: Just the thing zaQ

I concur mate!!! :smokebuds: Welcome Hoots!!!!!!!!!!!!Nice to see someone from bonnie scotland in here... i'm half scottish... havent made it there yet but sure would like to see from whence 1/2 of me came... :smoke:

Eh nice schematic. I'm 1/4 scottish myself, just thought id mention while the wheels spinnin. Welcome to afn!

1/4 or a 1/2 Scottish:no:

The blood is strong - Scots genes are Dominant so none of this fractions stuff! Your both Scots on holiday elsewhere

welcome mate bet its cold up there this time of the year!

It's cold up there everytime of the year mate but a lovely place to visit

Grey, Damp, Dreich is our weather, but when the sun does shine there is NOWHERE like it

aaaaaaaaaaa good too see you pots it here too bro

keep us updated my friend

peace

Hi LBH,

Cheers for persuading me to put up a thread here, a fine welcome, great forum.


I had started a thread over at ic-mag so to save my fingers a bit I will copy and paste the beginning of it here,

Well I think the first thing I need to do is to thank the man above me here, La Buena Hierba

for his auto haze thread that inspired me in this direction and through that all the other growers and breeders who are pushing the Autoflower boundaries.

I live in the North of Scotland (North of 58n) and our weather is shit. Hadn't realised just how shit until comparing outside grows at similar latitudes and even further north in Scandinavia.

In fact comparing weather charts from where I am here and Alta in the Far North of Norway at 69.58N and its very similar.

Obviously the winter is a different thing though I know a Norwegian living here who says that he didn't know what cold was till he moved here. Norwegian winters he said are down to -25c easily but are a dry cold that doesn't compare to the bone chilling damp of a dreich gray Scottish winter day with wet sleet hammering of the sea.

But looking at the charts in the summer the north of Norway get more sun and more hours of light and warmer temps than I do.

In other words, although my latitude would suggest an ability to grow certain outdoor strains in fact the weather makes a similar approach to the far north a better solution- Autoflowers.

My Danish semi-auto typhoons did really well but were caught out by our autumn weather-rain and more rain. Seemed strange spending 4-5 months growing plants only to have it all come down to a few weeks of weather at the end.

Now apart from a wee grow years ago all my growing experience has come from this year and these forums were quite a surprise to come across.

Didn't pay to much attention to autoflowers, they seemed to be derided for being crap and small and not potent.

However a friends inside grow started and went wrong with some lowryder#2 and so I was given them and then gave them some soil and outside they went. The shock of this change meant they all grew slowly and oddly through the summer but they all finished one way or the other. And given there poor upbringing the smoke was good!

So there I was smoking some outside bud(well resiny leaves) wondering if the typhoons would survive the next late summer gales.

Autos are fuckin great!!

The most interesting Lowryder was this one.
Here she was about 2 months old and a few weeks into flowering.

The transplant from coco to soil and then outside had stunted her but she was no bother so I left her be and she finished like this,

Her peedie wee buds were covered in resin and she had slowly flowered for almost 3 months!!

The tiny pile of dried bud is amazingly potent!!!!!!!

More potent than the typhoons or the other lowryders and so sticky its hard to roll her up in a joint.

Although she was small flowering over that length of time had super charged her resin.

I had noticed that a main complaint further north about autos was getting them to a size where a good yield could be had before they kicked into flowering.

All these things were kicking around my head when I saw LBH,s Autoflowering haze thread a few weeks ago.

And there it was, same short auto veg time and then let the sativa kick in for a long flowering during the best of the norths weather.

This way resin and potency are forming during the warmest months and hopefully finishing before the autumn rain and winds do there worst.

And as I was admiring this the cogs turned and I though Mmmmm, I have some sativas upstairs at the moment, Mmmmmmm,,,,,

So there we go, I will post more in a bit after a wee :dance:

 

[Hoots]

So it's been a particularly bad summer here, but still possible to grow big plants,

Only just starting to flower and we have already had light frost and snow.

12/12 plants don't work here (I guess that is fairly obvious but interesting to try). Good to take cuttings from them for inside and fine to grow such plants but not the answer for outdoor harvests here!

The typhoons are just the best.

Great plants to grow and handled all conditions but mine started flowering almost a month later than similar latitude grows in Scandinavia which meant that when they were putting on weight in the buds our usual Autumn weather hit.

Some of this years typhoons,

Two weeks of torrential rain, no sun and no wind, left the plants waterlogged and very quickly this happened,

They are mold resistant but nothing could handle that.

However at the time they are putting on potency is when our weather gets colder and greyer, if they had started earlier this would be fine but even they are a bit to late here.

Read somewhere on these forums someone talking about an auto/typhoon cross and I think this is a great idea.

And so that is where the true auto comes home singing and dancing glittering with the good stuff.

So the reason I chose lowryder#2 is simply because of the fact that after a lot of abuse the ones I inherited this year flowered and finished in there own way and never hermied.

It is also because I want something with as much sativa in as possible.

I'll post my thoughts on the some of the beautys who will be stepping out with the lowryder males soon.

Here they are, fragrant and oiled - those LR#2 lads are lucky men

 

[Hoots]

Its been busy..........

Golden tiger cutting pollinated by Lowryder#2,

7.5 weeks since the lowryders came up and 2.5 wks since the lowryder males left this world.

Ended up with 2 good females and 3 fine males.

One male was very very big branchy and vigorous, one was ok vigor but really early followed by loads of flowers and the other male was later ok vigor not many branchs.

They looked good under the t5s but they stretched out of shape under a CFL in a wood and cardboard male flowering room.

Had to go vertical when they stretched so much!

Used both the big vigorous male and the big flowered early male to pollinate the sativas.

The lowryder females got all three males for maximum variety.

The two lassies I potted into 10l pots and they are out of control! Really impressed, one very big and had to be folded in on itself to fit and the other a week later in flowering.

Seeds are coming along as is the resin,

Looking forward to seeing how they smoke.

Sativa photos next