Rapid PhenoTyping
Just a few notes and pics of the next generation of Frankenstein’s Daughters. If you’ve plowed through this entire thread you know that each chapter of this story is written in months rather than days or weeks… So here’s a month’s worth of progress, and a view of the road ahead.
But first, let’s put the original Frankie Mom plant to bed since her services won’t be needed for awhile. She’ll end up in an octopup on autofeed under bonsai mother plant conditions. Longer term, I’ll prune out dozens of cuts every few weeks, to keep her healthy… It’s actually sad and annoying to throw such genetic treasure in the compost pile! Lol
I think this mom is from one of the original tiny cuts I got from JP over two years ago. She’s recovering nicely from a root pruning and a severe trim.
The “Mom House,” is a rusty old Karate school gear locker providing150 ppfd via fluorescent bulbs, no fan or other enviros. The result is low heat, low watts lighting, and a low maintenance environment. Starved and carved and locked in a cage! Yep, it Suks to be a bonsai Mom,
I’m experimenting with a breeding technique I’ll call Rapid Phenotyping. It’s still a work in progress so, we’ll see how it unfolds before explicating further. Here’s the process to date.
I created two Frankenstein’s Daughters BX5 seed-lines and I have been germinating them in batches over the last month and searching for the traits I admire for this generation. Mostly looking for structure at this point as potency and yield are locked in already… (Genealogy chart below)
Here’s one of the first germination batches, two each of the BX & IL seedlings. SuperThrive and RhizoTonic vitamins at the ready!
Here are some more candidates from different batches, the tall one in this pic is from the BX line. As you can see here, they are pretty heterozygous structurally,: Spindly shoots that branch out nicely. and a symmetrical branching that should be easy to train. They don’t look much like the original Frankie clone, do they?
We also had some runts and duds, but overall the successful germination rate was 80%
After a few batches I found a very robust individual from the BX line. That tall plant has everything I’m looking for.
After multiple runs, I selected two promising candidates for the next seed runs. On the left is the future Inline (IL) mother plant On the right the future mom of the BX line. The size difference just reflects their germination dates.
The BX Mother plant
The Inbred Line (IL), Mother plant:
These will both end up in octopuppy pots like the Frankie clone mom at the top.
I intend to keep the two seed-lines separate until I can grow clones & seeds from each out to harvest.
Here’s a rough sketch of the Frankenstein’s Daughters project thus far.
