This is a little pollen chucking side project I want to run. Basically I want to make an automatic version of my Juanita la Lagrimosa clone. The progress will be documented here. Lets take a look at my goals.
Breeding Goals
- Smell/flavor of Juanita la Lagrimosa
- Feminized
- Auto flowering
- High-CBD (>8%)
The project plan is something like this:
- The first cross will be a Juanita la Lagrimosa reversed with STS (high CBD, smell/flavor) clone crossed with Freedom Dream (auto-flowering, high CBD) seed. Since Juanita la Lagrimosa is a photoperiod (PP) and Freedom Dream is an auto-flowering plant (pp), this first filial generation (F1) of feminized seeds will be all photoperiod plants (pP). This generation will have 50% of Juanita la Lagrimosa’s genetics.
- Grow out these F1 plants, searching for plants that test positive for CBD and are similar in smell/flavor to Juanita la Lagrimosa. There is a very inexpensive and simple method for testing for the presence CBD that can be performed at home.
- Two clones of each F1 keeper will be taken. One of them will be reversed, the other will remain female. These will all be open pollinated creating the second filial generation F2 of feminized seeds. Since all of the plants in the F1 generation were photoperiod (pP) the F2 generation will have 25% with the auto flowering (pp) trait.
- Reverse the Juanita la Lagrimosa clone and pollinate all auto-flowering plants this is the first back cross (BX1). This generation will now have 75% of Juanita la Lagrimosa’s genetics. This generation will also be photoperiod (pP).
- Grow out the BX1 plants, searching for plants that test positive for CBD and are similar in smell/flavor to Juanita la Lagrimosa.
- Two clones of each BX1 keeper will be taken. One of them will be reversed, the other will remain female. These will be open pollinated creating the second filial generation of the first back cross (BX1F2). Again 25% of these will have the auto flowering (pp) trait.
- Reverse the Juanita la Lagrimosa clone and pollinate all auto flowering plants, this is the second back cross (BX2). This generation will now have 87.5% of the Juanita la Lagrimosa’s genetics.
- Grow out the BX2 plants, searching for plants that test positive for CBD and are similar in smell/flavor to Juanita la Lagrimosa.
- Two clones of each BX2 keeper will be taken. One of them will be reversed, the other will remain female. These will be open pollinated creating the second filial generation of the second back cross (BX2F2). Again 25% of these will have the auto flowering (pp) trait.
- Reverse the Juanita la Lagrimosa clone and pollinate all auto flowering plants, this is the third back cross (BX3). This generation will now have 93.75% of Juanita la Lagrimosa’s genetics.
- Grow out the BX3 plants, searching for plants that test positive for CBD and are similar in smell/flavor to Juanita la Lagrimosa.
- Two clones of each BX3 keeper will be taken. One of them will be reversed, the other will remain female. This will be open pollinated creating the second filial generation of the third back cross (BX3F2). Again 25% of these will have the auto flowering (pp) trait.
- Grow out the BX3F2 generation, reversing half of the auto flowering population, selecting against any off types. This will be open pollinated creating a third filial generation of the third back cross (BX3F3). These plants will be 100% auto flowering (pp), should contain high CBD, and should be very similar to the mother (93%).
Misc notes:
Questions and comments welcome as usual.