Blue hawaiian... You know the fucker, my last partner i dumped snagged 3-5 pounds from our harvest ha!
Extensive testing was done on my original sour bubble male in the form of progeny tests and outcrosses. Those can still be seen some in elements thread.
As for testing once we got into the GB line. A big focus I always make is on topping response, how fast a plant recovers from topping, how fast it "shoots" from nodes after topping.
Many plants dont do well and some can even show reveg stress from too much topping. It is also a great way to test intersex the first few weeks of flower. You can see the results of this
now because when you top them, they absolutely explode. I recommend everyone top theirs early and at least once. You will see what I mean. In doing this the branching trait is locked in and breeding true now. This will be amazing for outcrossing.
Intersex has been the biggest test tbh, we're playing with fire, gg4 is from a herm and sour bubble males will herm fairly easily, (went through about 30 of em over 9 months or so to find on that would not throw a hair no mater what) thats my original male. This is done with root trimming stress, topping, cold testing, drought, heat and high feed during early flower. After that anyone who does not show interesex is thrown back into reveg for more stress.
I went through 300+ beans in solo cups testing to find the dude. Many were tossed in week 1 or 2. You will see what I mean, the sour b runts are obvious.
From there I was looking for physical signs I am familiar with after growing these plants for so long. Hollow stems tossed, looking for that pithy stem that the gg4 has generally, better for
LST and training, hollow stems are hard to train. At this point I also cut cal and mg out to observe the deficiency response i wanted to see similar to gg4. This made it even more obvious.
The gg4 red striping and leaf twist. A week or two after those cullings you can see the growth pattern very well, anyone with bad topping response was tossed...
I was down to about 50-75 then into flower for intersex testing. I had just a couple intersex I tossed and most of the females. That got me down to about 20 males.
from there I went to my score sheets of all my testing, bottom half were tossed,,,, From there it was easy to make a decision.
I am not doing open polls because I would like influence on the intersex trait. Sour bubble and gg4 are potent as fuck, with sour b inbred and reliably passing potency, not really an issue!
Have not seen a plant that doesnt have potency yet, terpene profiles will vary so that will be the key, finding one you like the taste of. Ranging from gg4 funk dominating to phenos with other top notes above the funk of the glue.
The glue dom leaners have been hard to find. Dan got lucky and found 2 in the F1 and that started the parallel lines. I took the F1 to F2 to make it easier to find a glue dom as the traits segregated, thas where my bx started. BX1 had lots of hyrbid phenos with traits getting passsed around, sour b dom with huge internodes etc, the branching trait become obvious at this point.
Now with hard selection it is clear we broke the barrier in BX2. 70% glue leaners, a few hybrid phenos yet and the rare 2/10 sour b Leaners, like I said you will see differentiation as sprouts and seedlings.
It has been a few years of work but BX2 is now way more reliable that the s1 for gg4 phenos. The s1 has more terpene variations.
Most smoke tests can report back on the glue funk underneath and good fast head change from the glue but with a deeper more body back end.
This is from the sour B and the pain relief I rant about sour b has transferred over as well. Much more therapeutic for pain than the glue.
Cant wait to see what you guys find!
