I have a few breeding projects over been working on for the last few years and want to talk about the one I'm currently growing. Maybe some of you would be interested in also throwing some of these beans to find phenotypes.
Several years ago I crossed an auto Zkittles with house of great gardener's Orange Barb photo, which is good producing, very orange flavored, and strong. It had been a favorite but I was curious about producing something even sweeter and more genetically fruity or candy like. I also thought it would be fun to run the lines and try to get stable auto version and and stable photo, and be open to choosing best phenos along the way.
Unsurprisingly I got distracted by other varieties and also had so much of the orange Zkittles f1 cross from an outdoor grow that I wasn't interested in working on the project since the first cross until this summer.
I now have two plants six weeks into flower and they're both expressing very differently. These each are F1 crosses from the Skittles and orange barb plants but are pretty different phenos, number one is growing incredibly well and easily, with fast vigorous growth and would take all the abuse I could throw at it during training, number two was a little bit more of a diva but hasn't really been that picky either, definitely slower growth and reacts to stress with less patience. Now that they are flowering out, number one smells pretty good, very much like Skittles, it is frosty but the buds are thin so far, but number two is great, huge orange smell that fills the basement when I open the tent, also with some of the sweet Zkittles flavor, and buds that are already really frosty and fattening up nicely. Unfortunately number two also has more yellowing leaves. Both of these are my first all organics plants indoors and seem to be yellowing a little earlier than usual, I've added top dressing using Earth dust and also compost tea so perhaps it's just genetics and senescence. Also I built the soil using a combination of ocean forest and my own homemade worm compost and regular compost along with some composted chicken manure and rice hulls so who knows if I got the mix right, I just kind of made it up.
I have four clones going, two from each plant, and will be flowering those soon so I can turn two of them male and do crosses with both each other and self-crosses, but right now I might only be interested in the seeds that come from the number two plant. The plan is to get rid of the seeds from whichever plant is the worst and to continue doing that to improve the line, probably would figure that out through a sea of Green. It might be another 2 years until I decide to work on it again, who knows, I'm now in the mood for classic old school chem diesel flavors.
I also happened to have some pollen I made from an all CBD pure red from sweet seeds that has an amazing color and really strong impressive floral fruity smell, I was using it for a different breeding project to make a low octane red AK and it worked out really well. I've chucked that pollen at one branch of both of these crosses for a possible blood orange Zkittles in spite of myself, I realize I don't want this to be genetics soup. However I really like super quality terpene in a relatively low THC package, like 10-15%, so I can smoke a lot without getting totally zapped, so maybe crossing the all CBD plant will bring the high THC Zkittles down a bit.
Anyway now that seeds are legal to send in the mail and growing is legal in many states if anyone is interested in working on this project with me let me know. I'd only ask that you keep and share detailed notes with me. If you're interested in pheno hunting and stable seed production, that's even better.
Several years ago I crossed an auto Zkittles with house of great gardener's Orange Barb photo, which is good producing, very orange flavored, and strong. It had been a favorite but I was curious about producing something even sweeter and more genetically fruity or candy like. I also thought it would be fun to run the lines and try to get stable auto version and and stable photo, and be open to choosing best phenos along the way.
Unsurprisingly I got distracted by other varieties and also had so much of the orange Zkittles f1 cross from an outdoor grow that I wasn't interested in working on the project since the first cross until this summer.
I now have two plants six weeks into flower and they're both expressing very differently. These each are F1 crosses from the Skittles and orange barb plants but are pretty different phenos, number one is growing incredibly well and easily, with fast vigorous growth and would take all the abuse I could throw at it during training, number two was a little bit more of a diva but hasn't really been that picky either, definitely slower growth and reacts to stress with less patience. Now that they are flowering out, number one smells pretty good, very much like Skittles, it is frosty but the buds are thin so far, but number two is great, huge orange smell that fills the basement when I open the tent, also with some of the sweet Zkittles flavor, and buds that are already really frosty and fattening up nicely. Unfortunately number two also has more yellowing leaves. Both of these are my first all organics plants indoors and seem to be yellowing a little earlier than usual, I've added top dressing using Earth dust and also compost tea so perhaps it's just genetics and senescence. Also I built the soil using a combination of ocean forest and my own homemade worm compost and regular compost along with some composted chicken manure and rice hulls so who knows if I got the mix right, I just kind of made it up.
I have four clones going, two from each plant, and will be flowering those soon so I can turn two of them male and do crosses with both each other and self-crosses, but right now I might only be interested in the seeds that come from the number two plant. The plan is to get rid of the seeds from whichever plant is the worst and to continue doing that to improve the line, probably would figure that out through a sea of Green. It might be another 2 years until I decide to work on it again, who knows, I'm now in the mood for classic old school chem diesel flavors.
I also happened to have some pollen I made from an all CBD pure red from sweet seeds that has an amazing color and really strong impressive floral fruity smell, I was using it for a different breeding project to make a low octane red AK and it worked out really well. I've chucked that pollen at one branch of both of these crosses for a possible blood orange Zkittles in spite of myself, I realize I don't want this to be genetics soup. However I really like super quality terpene in a relatively low THC package, like 10-15%, so I can smoke a lot without getting totally zapped, so maybe crossing the all CBD plant will bring the high THC Zkittles down a bit.
Anyway now that seeds are legal to send in the mail and growing is legal in many states if anyone is interested in working on this project with me let me know. I'd only ask that you keep and share detailed notes with me. If you're interested in pheno hunting and stable seed production, that's even better.
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