Put me down on your short list to be a tester please! I'm about to start a grow journal to document the plants I'm growing now and the breeding strategy for them to find the good autos and eventually get a stable strain. Can always link you to journals I've done elsewhere too.
I've never really gone past the F1/F2 stage.
Question:
These plants that I'm trying to do as autos started with 6 under 20/4 light from the start to see if any flowered on there own in say 6 weeks or so. Planned to breed any that did. Had to take off for 5 weeks just as they hit the 6 week mark so I pruned them back to sticks so they would be stunted for a while as the wife is only good for simple watering chores.
These are a cross of Kali Mist and Northern Lights #5 both of which I have been growing since about '03 off and on. They originally came from Marc Emery's Seed Bank but don't know which breeder. I call it Northern Mist. I crossed it with Purple Jem auto from The Joint Doctor's High Bred Seeds, (Mazar x LowRyder). Don't know if it's LR1 or LR2. Just says Lowryder in the seed pack. I like that Mazar. Really good for my depression and helps just like that Blue Heaven that's the LSD cross with Blueberry. Mazar in the LSD genes too.
When I got back there was two males in full flower and beginning to drop pollen so they must have started flowering shortly after I left at around 7 or 8 weeks old. I collected pollen from both in one pile and plan to use it to pollinate each of the 4 girls, just a couple lower branches each, and use the beans from that union to grow the next generation.
Here's the question finally: Will the pollen from those early flowering guys reinforce the auto in the next generation so any girls will likely flower earlier? These girls are stretching and have more flowers on them that is normal than just showing sex but not really forming buds yet at 4 months of 20/4 light.
I know starting with only 6 plants isn't really a big enough sample set to do the best selecting from but I still have 232 seeds left of this cross. Fattest damn seeds I've ever seen too. 6/6 so far. Will be doing a SoG type grow right away using maybe 10 seeds in each of 4 or more 2 - gal pots but forcing flower at the 4th node just to get as early a harvest as possible to stock up on meds. Planning when room permits to grow more of them under long days to find more autos in the woodpile.
Looking forward to a green Xmas!