So what has the LoompaFarms crew been working on and what is going to be in the drop. So I'll be sending in Yeti f3, OG Squared f3 ( this year she was knicknamed by us, and the name has stuck, so from here on out, the OG squared will be called Foo-Dawg). I have Moondawg f2's and the last..Abomidable Snowman.
I also have some tester beans that Ill be talking about in another thread, so hold your horses on that for now.
Yeti f3: This has been 5 years in the making. I have had specific goals with this project and this applies also to the Foo-Dawg (Formerly OG Squared). Here in Northern California, we have a very nice outdoor growing climate and year after year I would watch people try to grow OG and Diesel genes outdoors up here, and our climate just doesn't wasnt to help OG and disel genes finish properly outdoors. So one main goal was to create an OG line that can be grown outdoors and In for that matter, but outdoors I wanted an OG that finished properly and maybe If I'm lucky, I can add some structure and strength to the line. During this process we have gone through close to 10,000 females searching for those exceptional breeders. The first outcross of my HB was to a climatized old school strain that was pretty IBL'd. This male was to help introduce earlier flowering times and structure and flower production. This last years crop, no seeds were made. That was deliberate, because I needed to know where the lines sat as they are. I needed to grow a ton out and see if I'm obtaining my goals and So it was a research year to evaluate our progression. Theres no point continuing if a wrong turn was taken.
So the results of years of testing, indoor and outdoor, and this years outdoor season was the worst I have ever been through. Rains came early, the cold temps showed up one month early and the plants started to want to finish up from the signal of mother nature. We had record heat in May.June and even in april.....Plants without strong established rootballs being transplanted into the ground in 100+ degree day did not help either.
So as the years have gone by, we have developed dirt structures, ammendments, tilling, and strong support structures to hold the serious weight that waas expected. But no one expected rain in sept 1 and 5+ pound plants gettings hammered along with the water build up on the colas had colas snapping everywhere if not supported properly. So Id say the majority of the whole crop was taken generally about 2 weeks earlier than normal because the rot started showing up at about sept 10th for some of my strains. I was pulling plants like a madman, much like evreyone else in my area and our micro-climate. So a bad growing year, cold showing up early, budrot running rampid and none of our laborers arent due to show up for weeks, so each farmer was f*cked. Hundreds of pounds and no help. Understand that it takes hours to pull just one plant. I can pull 3 plants a day per person and have it done right...so the workload was tremenduos.
Well what I witnessed this year in the Yeti F3, was that there is still a little pheno variation as far as plant structures and flower structures. There are more open sativa phenos and looser sativa phenos along with large flower production phenos on beefy stocks. So that is the fine tuning I still have to work on. But my fear of going to far is that I dont want to "IBL" this line, cause everyones taste is different and I didnt want to lock it down to a couple phenos, when there is so much good flower expressions, I dont want to weed them out. But this year I saw no sweet tart phenos, every single Yet had some variation of an OG type flower in taste and aroma and quality of high. Resin producyion was through the roof and the structure of the plant ourdoors is very similar to a Snow type plant. Anyone who has grown outdoor OG knows that it is a Jeckle and Hyde plant....Grown indoors it is tall and lanky and stretches with weak stems and generally smaller bud formation. But outdoors, OG likes to grow short and squat and super bushy and the final flowers are usually smaller and they dont like to finish untill novemeber if we can have weather that lets us get to go into November. Well that wasn't good for me, and I started a quest to make an OG line that grows outside and indoors with no loss of high and quality of high.
So the final results this year were what I would consider this line ready to be put into the population. There was still some variation in flower structure, and some weight differences, but all the sweet tart phenos are pretty much gone, resin production is high, they fnish around middle of oct, and they can take alot of abuse. With how bad harvest season was, and rains coming early, rot setting in early, the Yeti were the absolute last plants to start showing signs of rot. Average yield of Yeti plants in full sun and 200 gallon pot was about 4-7 lbs. I did have one grower that got a 9.5 lb yeti plant, so these baby's can put the weight on and harvest outdoors in a reasonable time and its all OG pheno type plants as far as smell and taste and high and quality of high.
Foo-Dawg (formally know as OG Squared), this year we just started calling ti foo-dawg and so now that is what we will be calling the OG Squared. This was kindof the darkhorse of the strains. When they were worked, , the Foo-dawg always was a decent yielder. So I used some males that were first to show, so hopefully pass on some even earlier finishing genes. The basic story for the line is similar to what was gone through to make the Yeti, but the final results were a little different. The OG type phenos were all there with no sweet phenos, but generally speaking, the foo-dawg yielded better and was some very good quality smoke. Generally speaking across the board, all the variations we much closer in the potency and type of high, whereas the Yeti had more fluctuation with yield, But every once in awhile a yeti peno would pop up that was chunky huge, smelled alot like my HB and hit heavy. Foo-dawg hits heavy also, but it is generally a more indica type high while the Yeti definately shows its sativa side. and the soaring highs of the Yeti compared to the Stupor stones of the Foo-dawg are the main differences in the highs and qaulities of highs.
(To be Cont)
