Sounds like a decent cross first I’ve heard that someone made it you weren’t interested in flowering them out?
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Truth is, as much as I wanted to see the finished plants, I had ran out of room. I germed them right in the middle of a tent run. I knew from the get go I wouldn’t finish them…
Plus, even if I’m a bean popping maniac… I make 10x more crosses than I can run. So I try to focus on lines I want to breed forward.
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Yes my strain list keeps growing seems never enough space or time to grow them all .
Going to make a point of starting new seeds on a more regular basis than I have been .
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One more thing. When I made the skunk x lifesaver, I used somewhat random plants.
Right now, I’m making lifesaver x skunk from selected plants. Lifesaver is best out of 350 f2s and that skunk is best out of 150 grown 1993 seeds.
This new cross should be head and shoulders above the first one…
This is an idea I’ve been working on for a while, this line will be tailored for a system I thought out a couple years ago.
Things are getting interesting. 
We ALL should pop more beans.
Im no longer commercial, I swim against the current all day, everyday. 
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I was wondering what you been up to 
lol.
Looks amazing out there, glad you’re having a great time @Mithridate 
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Oh okay I see you give me the random one’s and then you take it to the next level and outright say they’ll be worlds apart gee thanks… LoL I am actually going to try running 3-4 in the tent after I get back from a mid August trip to go backpacking for several days
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Don’t send a rescue team just yet. Hahah
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Well the new ones aren’t even close to ready 
The first ones are over a year old… that’s before I found the melon lifesaver and this unit of a skunk.
By saying the new ones will be so much better I’m kinda assuming a lot of things haha.
Since they’re both from the same gene pools, they’ll be grown side by side. The bong will decide which one is better 
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I’m baaack!!
The macgyver irrigation system did its job, maybe a bit too well… I’m almost certain the pots were soaking wet the whole week heh. None seem to have noticed they were drowning though, haha.
I think they started to stretch, I don’t know. You be the judge.
Females
Sour strawberry #1
Lovely structure and strong branches. A guaranteed yielder.
Sour strawberry #12
Definite columnar growth from this one, thick branches.
Sour strawberry #16
#16 was still revegging when she first went outside, which explains the shortness. She was the branchiest of the bunch from seed. A tad pale, she seems healthy anyway.
Sour strawberry #17
Another lush bush. She lost a main branch earlier in the season and at this point I can’t tell haha.
They’re all frost monsters but this one frosts just a bit more.
males
Sour strawberry #11
This male loved to stretch! Note the long middle fingers.
Sour strawberry #14
Tall and fairly branchy.
Sour strawberry #20
#20 at first glance is short and more delicate. He’s only starting to spread his wings.
Remember when I said I had found a long flowering male and I wish I had kept him… well… I trashed the seed plant but kept cuts. 
This my boy. Females find him irresistible.
Melon lifesaver
She went outside as a beat up little mom. Surprisingly vigorous. Most fingers are the same length, strange look to me.
Lemon lifesaver
Same deal.
Definitely less vigorous. But what she lacks in size she makes up in frost and stank.
I took fresh cuts of everything and will most likely be fighting pests in the next 2 weeks. It’s a trade off I guess. I really wanted fresh cuts from fast growing plants 
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Looks great and it’s better when you make the stuff we’d pay big bucks for and I think it’s more rewarding plus it’s easier to fix adapt since you did it Happy Growing The Doc
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Thanks Doc.
Yeah. I’m all for using what you have on hand to solve problems. This was a very rudimentary fix to a temporary problem. 
I’m happy it worked ! And now I know these plants are solid lol
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I visited the garden today to feed them, all this water running through the pots in the last week definitely depleted their resources.
I’ll brew a tea for next weekend, I rarely do it but I really want them to be supercharged and ready for pollination.
Pest wise they doing good, seems like melon lifesaver and orange 1 are drawing all the attention. I noticed a few ladybugs and earwigs chilling on the plants, nature doing its thing
I also found a tiny spot of PM, smaller than a dime on a male. I took that leaf off the plant.
They are living amongst underfed sick tomato plants and vines, I’d say they’re resistant.
Sour strawberry #1 is stacking nodes, can’t wait to see the buds forming. Soon… soon…
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The (3) males are now taller than every female in the garden…
Females #1 and #16 trigger earlier than #12 and #17 (12 and 17, preflowers only)
Guests
Orange1 is first to initiate flowering by a good margin.
Orange10, no sign
Melon lifesaver, preflowers only
Lemon lifesaver, preflowers only
Skunk A, second earliest
I’m quite happy about #16 starting to flower this early. She’s the prime candidate for my strawberry hashplant project.
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Additional notes: sour strawberry
Flower set from earlier to latest
F) 1, 16, 17, 12
M)11 & 14, 20
Stalks/branches
#1 normal size, stiff almost woody but flexible
#12 giant hollow stalks, not flexible
#16 like 1, but smooth and shiny
#17 rubbery branches that’ll prob. bend under weight
Stem rub
#1 no strawberry at this point, kushy
#12 fresh strawberry
#16 sweet strawberry with a skunky end
#17 fresh strawberry
#11,14,20 fresh strawberry
Ss 12 stronk branches
Orange1 barely has a few hairs and is already trying to frost up. Naughty.
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Heh hehe ehehe
Sour strawberry
Orange1
Skunk A
Male #20 is finally starting to bloom 
Indiscernible mass of vegetation
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Thanks for the heads up
I really enjoy seeing them in an outside environment
Cheers
G
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I spent a few hours with the plants yesterday and something about #12 doesn’t add up…
She has the giant Sour bubble leaves, grows very columnar and has the thickest stalks… same width top to bottom… just like the sour bubble leaners.
But then, she stretched like none other, almost tripled, and is the last of the female to flower 
On top of that she reeks of strawberry perfume something fierce (same smell as my keeper from the original seeds). I can’t smell the skunk plant anymore. The hell…
If she has the strong kick I know some can have then I think I got myself a freak.
She’s now 6ft tall.
In this photo, I’m trying to show the pole like structure. That’s one of 6 branches.
Plates
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Today I went gold hunting and I found some
#14
Female #12 and male#20 are late to the party it seems. No problem. I collected pollen from the 2 males that are already dropping pollen, then gave them a good shake above all the females.
I put them aside and will continue to collect pollen for a week or two before chopping them. I also want to make sure they don’t throw pistils at week 5+.
Now, if I was a super smart cookie, I would have flowered the late flowering male inside and would already have pollen on hand. 
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