Orange zkittles breeding project

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Started spraying two lower branches with C.S to preserve this phenotype....However the C.S is home made with silver rods and 12v over night....and that was the second run...The first I added a little salt so the solution would conduct current but I did not like the milky color, so I ran a second batch "rod is shrinking" with a splash of tap water to add some salts so the current would conduct..Hopefully we will be successful with a dozen or so beans....

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A little update Franklin....As you can see; the F1 is Fast, Really Fast...She is a winner...Did she develop this fast for you in the past or is this One Lucky seed really special with the fast flowering...I think around July 19 when she started to flower...

[Franklin]

SoOrbudgal No preflower yet but I suspect any day now, definitely had it's stretch and it's slowing down

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The two weeks ahead ship has Sailed...I bet the F1 is closer to to three weeks ahead...This pic was posted on 7-26 and I never take a pic and upload, sorry but they kind of hang around a few days or so before I move them to pc and upload...I am pretty sure the F1 was already flowering around 7-19...This will most likely be the first outdoor grow that was able to finish or dam close to it... Your S1 is lagging way behind and my bb x (sc x cck) as well as the bb are still thinking about it....

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yeah all our cats and beagle hound love to chew on cannabis...

[SoOrbudgal]

Very healthy looking Franklin appears were heading back up in the 90s an higher. Are you seeing any preflower?

[SoOrbudgal]

Good to know about how these are developing. Hard to predict what the fall weather will be like, Oct. here was dry last year as i recall. You might get lucky changeofpace2014. I like your garden beds.

[Franklin]

Oh yeah, and the little rinky dink below it is the scarlet Galaxy from Going2fast. Unfortunately one of my cats chewed on it when it was quite small and it got pretty stunted. It smells amazing though, very fruity.

[Franklin]

Here's the sour diesel x orange Skittles cross. I started it late in the season, partially on purpose because I didn't want it to get too big, partially because I was out of town or busy. The fan leaves are huge. I've never actually been able to successfully harvest outdoors anything that isn't an auto because I always get bud rot due to our climate here in the northwest. This plant has a little bit of auto in its genetics so we will see if that makes it flower faster, that was my goal. I think my next cross will be to cross this with a red CBD by orange Skittles cross that I have so I can reinforce the orange Skittles genetics but also get a little more CBD in there. I like my weed, relatively mild and very tasty. However, that's a plan for next year, most likely.

[Franklin]

Nice! Thanks for posting. Yeah, about 25% of the F1 should be auto flowers and the other 75% are probably early flowering due to an auto in the grandparent line. I think I might have mentioned that in the materials at some point. I did that on purpose because I also have short summers that I work with and usually My plants develop bud rot so I wanted to speed them up a bit. My ultimate breeding plan will get away from any autos but should retain the fast flowering aspect.

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A few pics, I included the blueberry so you can see the leaf size....Note your F1 is Early Flowering,,I suspect 2 weeks ahead in the bud let development. That is a phenotype one would want to have growing up here, not sure how she will do in the cold....maybe a little blueberry would help...Frost comes in Oct here..and usually there will be a few days of it..just long enough to snuff anything out then it warms back up....past couple of years any way..

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my little blue berry looks like a miniure.....older then all the rest, stalk size is a bit smaller then your cross, Fixing to upload pic for you.

[Franklin]

Yeah man, the these are heavy feeders for sure. And I hear you about leaf side, the OZ x Sour d cross I'm growing in my backyard has massive, head-sized fan leaves right now.

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Yes the node spacing is not as much as a clone but when comparing it to a another plant it is very obvious. Further details the F1 has been peaky unlike the S1 which grows more robust, however the F1 does flower earlier...Sorry I have to take some more pics and move them to the pc so I can upload...

Interesting comparison between your F1 and S1...on one hand the F1 flowers early when comparing the pistil development to the S1 but the S1 grows with more vigor.....I started giving them a transition feed but they are screaming for more nitrogen so maybe I will alternate when feeding them..

the leaves on them both are Freaking Giant when compared to my blueberry clone.

[Franklin]

Huh, interesting. Can't wait to see my babies growing up. Did that node spacing happen right out of the gate? My older plants usually start doing that, which is why clones do that too because they are older. Maybe ten nodes up or so.