My last indoor crop, I tested the deep purple Valley Ice (sativa dominant) pheno. It ended up throwing sterile bananas, and I still dont know why. What I do know is that the same cut didn’t do that when I grew it in the greenhouse last year.
Noticing that this particular plant is sativa leaning in structure, I got the idea to cross it with Super Silver Haze in order to make it a stronger sativa. I also recently aquired seeds for two different Mexican sativa strains, and they will be used to pollinate the purple later in the project. The goal is to make my own version of a delicious Purple Sativa.
Im thinking of names that include Valley Ice…
Some rough ideas
_Super Valley Haze
_Super Purple Valley
_Super Valley Ice
_Purple Valley Haze
_Hazy Purple Valley *
_Super Hazy Valley
I will be selecting the 9 most vigorous females. Selecting the male is going to be tricky. I want a purple male that is displaying strong SSH genes. If the male selection is bad, then I will pop some SSH seeds and cross a SSH male to the best F1 purple female.
Other plans for this year:
I will run a clone of the Purple Valley Ice and make more F1 seeds with a vigorous SSH male. Unfortunately I only made 60 seeds in the last dusting. I need around 500 seeds for this project. I would like to have a reserve stock for future use.
Good morning, bro!
Your plant is looking amazing, for real! I’m crazy about those purple shades that cannabis brings out… it’s just too dope.
A couple of years ago I got my hands on some seeds from a strain called Red Kachina. I used to trip out just staring at the purple tones — I could spend hours just admiring it.
Big hug and good luck with your grow!
@ElChapo26 Tell me more. I haven’t considered that.
Incidentally, there is SFV OG genetics in the Valley Ice. Its a massive indica plant. If I give it adequate space, its easily a 5lb plant.
Valley ice x Super silver haze will definitely be interesting to cross. I saw the photos, it has big buds, maybe a little big for my taste.
What lineage does Valley ice have?
Looks good and could be that lineage prefers outdoor or less intense light… I’ve had a few strains particularly old school genetics that do much better under MH/HPS or blurple compared to the high-powered White full spectrum diodes with ramped up ppfd. When they were under modern LEDs it would stress and throw nanners but nothing crazy.
That is my suspicion. It could also be the 1gl pots. Root bound can trigger rhodelization in ruderalis strains. I selectively bred the ruderalis genes found in the MTF.
I was thinking of proposing something to you. Since you wrote that you will do other crosses this year. I would like to propose to give you a variety in seeds, to cross with your variety. Then when you do it, send him some. That way we would have a new variety.
have a Sativa landrace from Greece that I bought last month directly from them, a tall plant with a particular flavor. Then I have another Afghan landrace, the Balkhi. It is the Ortega Indica from 88 by Fleur du mer. I have lots of seeds. I am also receiving seeds from Australia from a friend, local landrace plants. I should take a good look at what I have, and see if they could be right for that cross, or the Juice f1 reg crockett family, it would match very well with yours.
3 out 23 seedlings are displaying a broad leaf pheno. Looks like the thin SSH leaf pheno ended up being a dominant trait in this specific cross. Considering the mother was a purple plant, I imagine it had a lot of recessive genes. Im glad it worked out this way.
