Orange zkittles breeding project

[Franklin]

Haven't given an update for some time so here goes. My recent attempt to reverse the sour orange zkittles and the blueberry x strawberry cough x cotton candy started terribly. Several seeds died from damping off and the ones that survived grew poorly, twisted leaves, weird mottled spots. I ended up with one bbxscxcc and two sour Skittles surviving. I posted pictures on another forum looking for help and received tons of ideas but finally broke down and paid 40 bucks for a soil test from Amazon and it was the best thing I've ever done.

I've looked at a thousand nutrient deficiency charts but nothing beats good old science. Turns out I was slightly low on ph, very deficient in nitrogen, had excess potassium and phosphorous, and deficiencies in a few micro nutrients. Since I'm now all organic without bottles, I threw some blood meal in there for nitrogen, lime for ph, and watered with a little TM7 for micros. Within a week things started looking MUCH better.

I flipped to 12 a month ago, sprayed some branches with colloidal silver for two weeks, and here's how things are going. Looking pretty good! The bbxccxsc smells amazing, like blueberry candy. It's on the lower left. The two sour orange zkittles are just starting to get some smell, candy orange. I'm seeing some pollen so will be collecting that relatively soon.

[SoOrbudgal]

Love it Franklin that's gonna be some real fire of a cross when it happens looking at those genetics. Cheers

[Franklin]

I harvested some feminized pollen from the cotton candy kush x strawberry cough x blueberry plant, seeds from changeofpace2014. I'm now trying to get the pollen super dry by double jarring it with desiccant. I've been told the secret to long term freezer storage is extreme drying. I probably won't be able to use this pollen for many more months but the goal is to cross this with my orange zkittles to do a Franklin x changeofpace2014 collaboration seed run. I'll make those available here when they're ready. The rest of the run is going well, the bruzzlez zproutz is nearly ready to harvest (not as aromatic as I wanted), as are the non-reversed branches of the cck x sc x blueberry. The latter smells AMAZING, so much blueberry. That pollen is going to make some killer crosses.

[SoOrbudgal]

You are one of the few hobby breeders i trust with your crosses. Very stable for me.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Where do I sign up for some tester seeds 😅

[BU2B]

Nice job and beautiful plants

[changeofpace2014]

You have been Busy Franklin...Sounds good..

[changeofpace2014]

Franklin we have 3 c.c.k beans up...They are a little slow compared to last years seeds from the s.c.x c.c.k x b.b cross..Maybe age...they have been around for 5 years or so, perhaps last years beans just have vigor.... The O.S from last year is back in the garden and looking so much better.......

[changeofpace2014]

A little update - Franklin last july I cut a cutting from the bottom of the OG plant to root and it took a while to turn her back. Moving forward I kept her alive over the winter but at some point the auto kicked back in and she started flowering again, by this time there was no way to train her, so I planted her in the garden for the summer. I started to thin her out but it is almost 90 F here and I will get back at it when it is cooler..

Started the c.c.k and hoping for a male. They need to be transplanted and I have started buffering the coco...We will see how it goes..

Have you kept any of the your fast crosses over a year and if so did they resort back to auto? Just wondering if this is common trait... Found you over on OG, maybe I join there as well but not now...lol

[Franklin]

I took a break from social media for a couple months and since I came back I've been wondering where SoOrbudgal went. All her posts are gone and she doesn't even seem to exist on the server?

[Pyrokill]

I've been wondering also, I thought she mentioned a vacation out of the states but it's been a bit since then.

[Ckbrew]

The profile says "banned", idk why. Must have po'd someone?

[Gingerbeard]

Yeah. She had a thing with a person. Don't remember who the person was. Person was posting the same thing on two sites. She wound up taking great offense that Person was plagiarizing someone else's work and became offensive. Some y'all might remember the 'Boicot soorbudgal' [sic] thread?
It's gone but it was getting nasty the last I saw. The head office got involved.

[Going2fast]

Missed that thread. Was wondering the same thing. She was nice to me but had some anger issues.