Thanks —
@anon4675195 and I talked a bit about some of the strains we both wanted to start with.
Primary goals are to start with quality in-bred lines that were in seed form. We have other projects going on with elite Photoperiods (I’m doing a mendobreath to auto project that growinghigher started; he has a gmo to auto project that he is posting on in some of his threads).
NBS1089 grows a lot like bluedream structure wise , has very dense flowers with good thc content (low 20s). I think we both agree that the terpene profile is not bad… but not great. It’s sweet on the nose and in my opinion takes on a dried apricot smell with extended curing. The top goals are to find phenos within each photoperiod line that have high resin content. My hope is that there will be ideal mixtures of terpenes in the progeny that provide something more than parent autoflower offers.
There are a few other inbred lines we have for follow ups: wedding cake f4, TK S1 (csi), romulan bx1, pinkleberry. Will get to those things eventually.
I think the game plan is to run out a few of the F1 crosses to flower and move forward with lines that have a good combination of effect (the high), flower appearance and resin/terpene profile.
Here are a few thoughts on these strains —
In the sour bubble line there appear to be a few strong pine-type phenotypes — one of my plants has resinous stems preflower that smell strongly of pinesol. So far it is my fav, but we will see how it develops. There is significant variation from plant to plant. With an n=6 I have seen significant variation in plant height, leaf, internode distance and stem resin content. The terpenes thus far seem to be varied. I think there is more risk in working with this line, as it will be harder to predict how it will develop as we try to recover the autoflowering trait.
The bubblegum was a bit of last minute addition on my part and I’ve enjoyed looking over the colors I’ve seen from other posts. Although I only have an n=3, the plants look to be very similar in phenotype. Internode distances are tight/similar, leaf structure similar, and all three have minor stem resin leading to bazooka Joe-type terpenes. The height of each phenotype is consistent — my feeling is that this is a relatively well developed line, but it’s hard to know with a small sample size.
I don’t know deep chunk well, but it’s resin-content is well known. So far it is clearly a well inbred line. With an n=6 it is pretty clear each plant is nearly identical. I suspect we will have a good sense of where things are going once we get the F1s running.
