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It's getting around harvest time for the first round of testers, so I figured I should start posting everything bit by bit, updating as I go.
I'm currently working on a project to preserve in seed form the genetics of one particularly delicious sample of Ken's GDP. GDP takes the favorite strain slot for night time for me, and since trying it many moons ago and growing and losing the local CO cut it was my goal to get a hold of the genetics again. My goal is to achieve a viable BX1, which will be used for breeding out the GDP traits I'm interested in (smell, high, color) into F1s and inbreeding into a stable GDP line. After lots of research I don't think multiple backcrosses would be helpful for preserving genes, especially as the GDP itself is not so stable if one were to go off of any of the billion origin stories.
Granddaddy Purple released the GDP seed line, and in 2013 I took the plunge and ordered a 10 pack. Unfortunately due to a bad batch of rockwool only 2/10 germed, both males. Of the two one was green and not noteworthy in any way, while another was consistently darker in veg and just reeked of the most absolutely perfumed fruity funk.
I junked the green guy, and flowered the purple GDP. It performed beyond all expectations, making it through the nastiest mite infection I've had to deal with. Scorched earth ended up being the mite solution - never import foreign clones again. Unfortunately when I tried to reveg the stress and continued mite stress caused him to die one day.
He is remembered in photo form:
Before he gave up ghost I gathered up quite the amount of pollen, and crossed him with all of my females that were at that time in flower. The females crossed with during that round:
Sour Romulan (local CO IBL, S1 from Trill Alternatives)
Blue Cheese (Blue Dream x Cheese F1 freebee)
DP Strawberry Cough, Sativa hazy Pheno
DP Strawberry Cough, Indica fruity Pheno
Northern Lights freebie
DP Mazar funky skunk pheno
Most of the females can be found online for looks except the blue cheese which was too ravaged by mites to have any idea of what it should have looked like. The only female from the original batch I'm uploading photos for is the Sour Romulan, which for me takes favorite strain for daytime. It is another project of mine to inbreed the Sour Rom x GDP to get my perfect strain. I originally had ~10 seeds, all 9 so far grown turned out exactly the same except one which very strongly expressed male and was chucked, here she is in her original thick waisted sativa IBL form:
The first round of crossing gave me six hopefully awesome strains to work with. My idea behind the varied crossings was to try to quickly expose as many of the GDP traits as possible. I don't have the space to flower huge numbers so I have to try alternate ways of identifying how his genes mix and match. I'm familiar with most of the female growth patterns so I'm confident I can suss out the GDP traits in the progeny.
I'm currently wrapping up flowering the first round of progeny, Sour Romulan x GDP. I still had 3 vials left of GDP pollen, and decided to crack one since the plants in this round were worthy. Plants given the guy this time:
Sour Rom x GDP, romulan pheno - structured like the Sour Rom with GDP perfumed funk, denser buds and light purpling
Sour Rom x GDP, GDP pheno - dead ringer for a cali purple plant. by far the shortest and lowest yielding of this tent round. purple and pure sweet funk smell
Mystery Sativa (durban x Island Sweet Skunk) - sativa structure with delicious baked cherry licorice smell. wanted to see how the gdp funk mixed with savory fruity instead of sweet fruity like with the strawberry cough.
Maple Leaf (Trill Alternatives S1) - I assumed this was sensi seeds maple leaf. I have never worked with a plant so adamantly indica. Literally 0 smell throughout veg, which developed into a light sweet vanilla and then a heavy pure hash scent later into flowering. This was my first grow out of it, and I can tell that while it might not make the best meds it might have good breeding potential due to the hardy genetics.
I have some clean up to do and photo organization, and then will be uploading more photos of the male and the first round of progeny, which are beginning week 7 of flowering. Until then enjoy the teaser shots of the male and sour rom mom until I get a full gallery up.
I'm currently working on a project to preserve in seed form the genetics of one particularly delicious sample of Ken's GDP. GDP takes the favorite strain slot for night time for me, and since trying it many moons ago and growing and losing the local CO cut it was my goal to get a hold of the genetics again. My goal is to achieve a viable BX1, which will be used for breeding out the GDP traits I'm interested in (smell, high, color) into F1s and inbreeding into a stable GDP line. After lots of research I don't think multiple backcrosses would be helpful for preserving genes, especially as the GDP itself is not so stable if one were to go off of any of the billion origin stories.
Granddaddy Purple released the GDP seed line, and in 2013 I took the plunge and ordered a 10 pack. Unfortunately due to a bad batch of rockwool only 2/10 germed, both males. Of the two one was green and not noteworthy in any way, while another was consistently darker in veg and just reeked of the most absolutely perfumed fruity funk.
I junked the green guy, and flowered the purple GDP. It performed beyond all expectations, making it through the nastiest mite infection I've had to deal with. Scorched earth ended up being the mite solution - never import foreign clones again. Unfortunately when I tried to reveg the stress and continued mite stress caused him to die one day.
He is remembered in photo form:
Before he gave up ghost I gathered up quite the amount of pollen, and crossed him with all of my females that were at that time in flower. The females crossed with during that round:
Sour Romulan (local CO IBL, S1 from Trill Alternatives)
Blue Cheese (Blue Dream x Cheese F1 freebee)
DP Strawberry Cough, Sativa hazy Pheno
DP Strawberry Cough, Indica fruity Pheno
Northern Lights freebie
DP Mazar funky skunk pheno
Most of the females can be found online for looks except the blue cheese which was too ravaged by mites to have any idea of what it should have looked like. The only female from the original batch I'm uploading photos for is the Sour Romulan, which for me takes favorite strain for daytime. It is another project of mine to inbreed the Sour Rom x GDP to get my perfect strain. I originally had ~10 seeds, all 9 so far grown turned out exactly the same except one which very strongly expressed male and was chucked, here she is in her original thick waisted sativa IBL form:
The first round of crossing gave me six hopefully awesome strains to work with. My idea behind the varied crossings was to try to quickly expose as many of the GDP traits as possible. I don't have the space to flower huge numbers so I have to try alternate ways of identifying how his genes mix and match. I'm familiar with most of the female growth patterns so I'm confident I can suss out the GDP traits in the progeny.
I'm currently wrapping up flowering the first round of progeny, Sour Romulan x GDP. I still had 3 vials left of GDP pollen, and decided to crack one since the plants in this round were worthy. Plants given the guy this time:
Sour Rom x GDP, romulan pheno - structured like the Sour Rom with GDP perfumed funk, denser buds and light purpling
Sour Rom x GDP, GDP pheno - dead ringer for a cali purple plant. by far the shortest and lowest yielding of this tent round. purple and pure sweet funk smell
Mystery Sativa (durban x Island Sweet Skunk) - sativa structure with delicious baked cherry licorice smell. wanted to see how the gdp funk mixed with savory fruity instead of sweet fruity like with the strawberry cough.
Maple Leaf (Trill Alternatives S1) - I assumed this was sensi seeds maple leaf. I have never worked with a plant so adamantly indica. Literally 0 smell throughout veg, which developed into a light sweet vanilla and then a heavy pure hash scent later into flowering. This was my first grow out of it, and I can tell that while it might not make the best meds it might have good breeding potential due to the hardy genetics.
I have some clean up to do and photo organization, and then will be uploading more photos of the male and the first round of progeny, which are beginning week 7 of flowering. Until then enjoy the teaser shots of the male and sour rom mom until I get a full gallery up.
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