I think you might be on to something
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Flower Day 32
These LDxCQ are through stretch it appears. Seems like in the past couple days, they’ve started to transition their energy into bud production. There’s tall and short phenos – tall from the LD side and short from the CQ side. I have 4 of the tall and 3 of the short that I kept after all the culling. The big girls are beasts. Lots of smells, especially burning rubber emanating from the stems. I think my house is going to reek pretty soon…
The one S.A.D. that I kept out of 3 is stacking up very nicely (first pic after root shot). It’s about 5 days ahead of the others. So far, it’s looking like a winner. I love a good Black Domina. Here’s hoping it’s as good as ones I’ve grown previously. 
Pollinated last weekend with the BDxBA and LDxCQ pollen. Took the LDxCQ pollen from a male with no pistils. It was branchy, mid-height, strong skunky/soapy smells and good flower production. I’m going to wait maybe 2-3 more days and go in for a 2nd round of pollen. A few new pistils have started popping on the brushed buds, so it should be ready soon.
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One more thing… if you zoom in on the last picture where I flopped the main stem, it kinda looks like a bleeder. I’m gonna try and remember to check the stems around harvest.
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Number 4 of the ladies looks REAL good
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Flower Day 38 LowDak/Cherry Queen & S.A.D.
Sweet Afghani Delicious (Black Dom S1)
Short pheno
Tall pheno
Group
Today is the 2nd/final pollination day. These broads are blowing up my tent. Very fascinating to see the mix of LowDak and Cherry Queen attributes. The phenos are not clearly separable, with every plant taking something from each side. Very interesting as this is almost like an F2 generation already (both lines already being an F1 cross of an Afghani and an Afghani Kush). Lots of fragrant, pungent smells from cherry to skunk and burning rubber. One of my favorites of the smaller variety has lowdak leaves and branching and what appears to be cherry queen bud structure.
The last of the tall pheno I’m calling Miss Goliath. She wants to be huge, and she has a branching structure that would be a total beast outdoors. She’s maxed out the height of my grow space at about 5.5 feet, and I keep bending down the tops to keep her down. Fortunately, I thinks stretch is over.
I’ve ramped them up to 5 feeds per day. I fear that I won’t even be able to keep up with them in these little 1 gallon pots. Challenge accepted!
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What size are your squares Lefty?
Do you finish in them also?
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Those are 1 gallon square pots (hydrofarm I think). I don’t transplant past that size, because I like to keep my media consumption down. Won’t lie, it’s sometimes pretty damn hard to keep plants happy in pots that small. Usually around now is when they start bitching and complaining for a few weeks, while their nutrient demands are the highest. Then it usually settles down again when the bulk of the bud development is done.
I used to try and get it done in 1/2 gallon pots. But just couldn’t ever get it to work out very well. Especially in those pots, the roots become so dense than drainage grinds to a halt. Even with 1 gallon pots, I’m still trying to find the right amount of perlite to add. But it’s substantially easier.
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I finish in gals and a half, I’m fine with that thou.
4 dry off a bucket can’t complain
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I see SSSC get credit for a ton of stuff they never had in their catalogues. Black Domina was a 4-way Indica hybrid bred by Nevil for Sensi Seed Bank before he left for Greenhouse with Shanti.
Unless someone can show me the catalogue to prove otherwise?
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How rude of me, great fucking plants, by the way. Love your setup. Very clean and organized. Keep kicking ass bro! These crosses sound amazing.
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That matches my expectations. Sensi was who I’d heard brought it to market.
But this is fascinating about the Garlic bud… seems quite possible that the pepper pheno I love comes from that.
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I’ll get some pics up soon. Unfortunately, I’m gonna have to walk this one backwards for a step. It brought out a lot of really leafy phenos, a few HUGE phenos that I lost control of, as well as some freaks and geeks that look kinda gnarly. One pheno even smelled straight up nasty. I mean I like skunk, but one of the ones I cut nearly activated my gag reflex. 
C’est la vie they can’t all be winners. I got a little wild with the outcrossing on this one. The LowDak is a little bit too close to landrace, so I guess I’m not terribly surprised that some weird shit popped in an F1xF1 cross.
But I’ll likely spend my time working with the Black Dom hybrid in the near term. I’m not at risk of running out of LowDak seeds anytime soon – but I don’t have a ton of BD, and would like to lock down the pepper pheno.
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LD x CQ Weirdos
Ficus? Cannabis? Lol hearty stem, but not what I’m going for. Also it smelled bad. Next!
It was a struggle getting squeezed in. Many of these got quite large and were competing for light. This one had some good resin, but thin buds.
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Bro how long does the blackdak go.?
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LD x CQ Getting warmer…
So this one was really Cherry Queen leaning – though not in the pheno I prefer. I think it’s the fat cherry afghani leaning side, if I had to guess. Really beautiful leaves though. They stay fairly small and the lines are so perfect they look like grid paper. I love the purpling that happens late in flower as well. Smelled really nice while I was stripping the leaves.
The top was unfortunately a weird stretchy shape, with some of that cabbageyness you can find popping out of Afghans. Afghans never struggle to produce resin, but since they’re cultivated for hash, you see these more unrefined attributes popping out that are somewhat undesirable for western usage of smoking whole flower. Not a keeper, but fully Afghan at heart.
The last one for tonight is really LowDak leaning – more specifically the Lowland Afghani pheno. Top cola is the spitting image of LowDak. Structurally and resin-wise LowDak. Smell actually I get a bit more Cherry Queen.
Not a bad plant. Yielded better than the others so far, and I know it’s hard to tell from the pictures, but it’s quite sizeable. Given more room, she would have been a monster (though not as much of a monster as the ones left…). The top is like a softball, and it cuts down into golf ball nugs. I’m at least going to keep the seeds on this one, until I’ve smoked it. Overall, I think I’d rather just grow LowDak, but I’m still pumped to smoke her.
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The phenos I like best go about 70 days.
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Last 2 - the big girls
LDCQ#2
This is the 2nd biggest gal. Top cola split into 4-5 BASEBALL sized nugs. I even supercropped her top a bit. Leafy… gonna be a bear to trim. A little too big for indoor grows.
LDCQ#4 “Miss Goliath”
This plant was just FUCKED. I haven’t completely lost control of a plant indoors this badly since I tried to grow a wild equatorial Thai. Abject failure as far as indoor plants go, but potentially a superstar outdoors.
She comes up to my forehead from the ground (I’m 6ft tall). I topped her mid-flower because it was getting so bad. She still maxed out the full height of my tent… all in a 1 gallon pot, in a 2x1.5ft space. All the makings of a solid outdoor for anyone that wants to play in the 10ft+ realm. She hits all the major checkboxes. Awesome branching structure, early enough to finish most places, frosty medium-density buds that will be great against botrytis, and strong branches that can support weight.
If anyone wants seeds to grow monsters for outdoor season, hit me up for seeds from her. There will be some variation as they’ll be F2s… but just look for the young plants that show good branching structure and you’ll get one of her ilk.
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Smells on these were very nice. Sort of a metallic cherry smell, perhaps with a bit of gas or rubber. I’m enjoying smelling my fingers right now.
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Those things are absurdly large for that size pot, lol. Very cool.
Looks nice. Interesting description of the smells, too. Makes me wish I could do outdoor where I live!
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I can grow outdoor here, but I live in a neighborhood with a lot of passerbys. There’s no way I could keep a plant like her hidden. I feel like if I grew her outdoors, I might as well post up a billboard that says “WEED HERE, COME GET IT”…
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