Cheers LD! ... I don't get around as much to grow threads as I used too, sadly, luxury time ain't what it used to be...But I need to poke about more, it's part of the fuel that fires AFN's pistons
The need for speed, it's what auto's are mostly about IMO... A fact that some companies seem to have forgotten-
If a cultivar takes 3 months+, one might as well have just grown a normal photo and saved a nice stack of $ on power! I realize it's about build/size too, and some photo culti's don't fit the bill for this vs. their auto versions, apples-to-apples... But that aside, generally speaking, WTF is the point?
For me, cycle time is huge-
... I'm a rarer case of a grower not giving a fek about yield/size (tent restrictions apply here too), I'm in for the variety! I have a limited time window to run autos, the tent needs be outside in a courtyard for a few reasons, so weather is in play....
If I can spank out 6-7 auto's between May and Oct., that itch is officially scratched-
Plus there are so many girls to check out, and always more on the way...
What can I say, I'm a slut for variety -
.... especially when a breeder like LH is working with heirloom/landrace types, or some old cultivars from another breeder I know well that has the True Goods (HighRise, long defunct now)... Maine's Own Blueberry, aka MoB, and the fantastic Cindy99auto
(this version has been so well documented, was such the bullseye; used by other breeders exclusively for this reason), Fire99auto and his original guerilla Haze/C99/Diesel crosses that were way ahead of their time for speed and quality.
Back when I joined, only La Buena Hierba was on par with HR, and LBH leaned toward fast Haze auto crosses. To this day his auto's are among the best!
Point is, I gravitate toward stuff that isn't just another McRemix of the same old tired and boring shallow gene pool lines *
cough Cookie
cough "dessert"
cough* Chem this, Dog that
*cough* etc. etc., that seems to be all the big house clowns are doing these days...
And the prices,
fuggeddaboutit! ...want to see offensive? Check out what Dutch Passion wants for Kerosene Krash! How does about $35/seed strike you, besides upside your head?!
Absolutely nothing new or particularly special there, just another McMashup for the pop culture sheeple...
Yup I believe she is one of the first on some of these @Buzzard has grown northern berry and says it’s some of the most blueberries he’s smelled. @Mañ'O'Green grew lil stick and says the buzz is out of this world think some other folks got some also but I do believe I may be the first with dead skunk and sowahh queen
....yup, it's the latter two I refer too! I wanted to run Lil'Stick last year, but I had LBH's semi-auto Asian Haze going so didn't want to cross over with another strongly Thai cross...
I can't recall if Nor'Berry was MoB in it? I do know MoB very well, my go-to for rich berry aromas!