Will fill this in better over the next couple days, but creating the placeholder now.
Starting a run with 3 Red Hot Cookies, and 1 Tropicanna Poison
The RHC were donated by @FiveGar. Strain created by Sweet Seeds.
The TP were made on my previous run. Strain created by Sweet Seeds. (Because I these were Fast x Fast, this bean has a chance of being an auto, but its really just me messing around, so whatever ends up happening is fine)
The plan is to manifold each plant, and once I have 8 branches established on each, to hit one branch on each RHC with CS, and flip.
Each plant is in its own DWC system in a 5 gallon bucket.
The buckets (and usually my cat) are in a 4x4 section of a tent, and I have a SF-4000 in there.
Nutrient List:
GH 3 part nutrients, CalMag, Silica Blast, HydroGuard, and eventually some MOAB.
I started them in cotton pads, in a ziplock bag, loosely following this method: (props to @Rhai88 for the suggestion)
I started one extra TP bean, because my first attempt to germ in a paper towel did not go well, but it was not needed.
I follow that means 75% chance that this will be photo, mostly that it will be fast photo again, but the thing is if it happens to go auto on me, I might not time the pollination correctly.
Means within a month your gonna see some continue to veg under 18-24 hour light and some are gonna transition to flower, take what starts to flower on its own and that’s your 25%er ur looking for
Refresh page and look up in previous comments u will see the punnett square explainations
Thanks. That does break it down easier. I’m not trying to stabilize the trait on this run, just thought it would be fun to cross these 2 colorful strains, and see what happens, but mostly the point was to make some more RHC beans.
Well if I’m not mistaken those two are a photoperiod and a fast photo, means ur not gonna see any auto traits in the 4 seeds and crossing them is actually taking them back to half and half photo and fast photo so even those resulting seeds u won’t see the traits, only way u will see autos come up is if you crossed the trop poison together which I don’t see happening since they are fem seeds. So any off spring assuming red hot cookies is a male will be photo and fast photo in the offspring
Finish faster, could have a strain with a 10-12 week flowering time and crossed with an auto can make it a 7-9 week as a fast finishing. Still gonna be a photo period though requiring being steered into flowering with a drop in daylight hours to 13/11, 12/12, and 11/13
Ah gotcha! So yes it’s possible u may see an auto pop up in the trop. But where it gets more complex is now u have 25% full photo and 50%fast photo also being present and will never know the difference till the very end if it doesnt auto or which finishing fast and which didn’t.crossing back to a full photo too so unless ur finding an auto in there majority of the project will likely end up half fast finish and half photo
You’ll probably be able to tell the difference between the full photos and fast photos if you’re paying close attention around flip time. Fast photos typically show flowers quicker than full photo… it takes a few days to a week, rather than two weeks. Of course, it’s not exactly an exact science saying when a plant’s fully flowering, but when you’re comparing them side-by-side it’s probably a bit easier.
