Love to be on the show. I’d show mine off if it wasn’t all jarred up. Cleaning get ready run 3 bears OG auto’s.
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This sounds exiciting! Is the Diana 75 a princess cross?
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Dianna 75 is a princess in her own right, but no. This is a Jack Herer cubing project I have been working on a couple of years.
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Can you share the nature of what a cubing project is?
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Told by Soul about Cindy99 and how it came to be. Same process:
1. Pollinate a flowering clone of the chosen female with the pollen of a related male, preferably her father or a brother - to preserve any female traits that are linked to the male side of the family. An unrelated male won’t have the Y-chromosome of the chosen female’s family & therefore any Y-linked traits of the family will always be missing in the seed line. The resulting seeds contain 1/2 the original female’s genes and 1/2 those of the male.
2. Grow the above seeds & flower them.
3. Pollinate a flowering clone of the chosen female with pollen from a male selected from the above group. These seeds contain 1/2 the chosen female’s genes plus 1/4 more from the male being 1/2 her genetics too. I call this first back-cross generation .75 to capture the idea that it’s 3/4 of the original female’s genetics.
4. Grow the above seeds & flower them.
5. Pollinate a flowering clone of the chosen female, using a selected male from the above generation. These seeds contain 7/8 the original genes (1/2+3/8), so this second back-cross is the .88 generation.
6. Grow the above seeds & flower them.
7. Pollinate a flowering clone of the original female with pollen from a selected male off the above generation. These seeds contain 15/16 the original genes (1/2+7/16), in other words, so we’ll call this third back-cross the “.94” generation.
Theoretically, this will be a stable, true-breeding seed line from which all females are replicas of the original. Cinderella 99 seeds are created from a male P94 crossed to Princess, which is technically P97.
In the process of “cubing” Princess I wanted to add a little strength to her branches because the buds were always so heavy at harvest that the branches flopped over. To do that, I crossed a male from a heavy-yielding, dense, resinous strain, Sensi’s Shiva Skunk. Crossing that male to Princess created the “P.50” generation (using the shorthand notation I developed to indicate the fraction of Princess genes in the cross).
Each generation is the result of crossing a male from the previous generation to Princess herself.
Here’s a blow-by-blow description of the generations as they tested in my garden:
P.50 = Heavy, single-cola type plants with mellow high (too much influence from the Shiva Skunk) Sweet fruity scent/flavor. Unstable in most traits - for example, 10 days difference in fastest/slowest maturation period in a group of 20 seedlings.
P.75 = Princess floral cluster and bud structure, scent/flavor turned more “tropical” like pineapple. The stability was becoming better - two major phenotypes; short & dense (potent too) or tall/HUGE (less potent).
P.88 = Renamed Cinderella 88 when first released on the market. It grows fast and produces excellent yields of FROSTY buds in 7 weeks! Generally uniform seedlings with minor differences in floral formation and some height variance, but the smoke is quite consistent from all plants - Dense, heavy nuggets of fruity scented & flavored (like wild berries) and covered in resin glands, the dried buds have distinctly ORANGE pistils.
And finally, the male P.94 cross to the Princess clone creates Cinderella 99. The name “Cinderella” was chosen because of the parallels between this story and the well-known fairy tale in which Cinderella becomes a Princess despite her humble beginning.
Each generation exhibited a MAJOR jump in potency: P.50 was rather mellow, P.75 has a well-balanced body/mind high with a citrus flavor, Cinderella 88 is cerebral and paralyzing with a tropical fruit flavor, and Cinderella 99 is of course renowned for the fruity flavor and speedy, scary high inherited from Princess.
Dianna75 is a P.75 hence the name. Still a little in her infancy, but I may release this version depending on this grow and where I am with it.
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Was not famiilar with the term, but I am a little familiar with the process.
Thank you sir, for spending the moment.
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Hello all, and so it begins. We have some movement in the GrassFire OG. These should go in solo’s tomorrow and will check the Dianna75’s. Peace OG.
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Hello all, hope you and your gardens are doing well. Love it when they go into solo’s. It means time to grow.
6 of 6 open on the GrassFire OG, and 4 of 6 on the Dianna75. Temps have been cooler here will check in on the seeds tomorrow. The journey begins, Peace OG.
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I planted 12 three days ago, had six above soil this morning. Pics tonight.
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that’s awesome, thats planting without a pre-soak or anything correct?
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i usually soak in a cup of water for a day, then plant. this time i just stuck them in wet jiffy pucks and put them on the heating pad.
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Hello all, hope you and your gardens are doing well. Action is starting one of the Dianna75 just emerging. Peace OG.
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Dianna75
Planted directly to peat pucks 2/11/18. Pics this morning, five days growth. Temps 72.
Will pot them tonight.
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Hello all, hope you and your gardens are doing well. 12 of 12 on germ and 12 of 12 abouve soil. Let the journey begin. Peace OG.
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I have 12 for 12 sprouted and growing. Mrs. Dog had to help the last one, it was growing upside down. She says it’s looking great two days later.
I’m flying home tomorrow so I’ll take pics of the garden and get everything updated.
I have seedlings, two auto’s at four weeks from seed and a cabinet full of Northern Lights at 4-5 weeks in bloom so I am very interested to see the garden after a week away.
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