Growing Organics living soil, Sativa/Narrow leaf dominant pheno selection, phenotypic expression.

[BC LONE WOLF]

Going good bro
Just gave them their first feed of Maxi 250 ppms at 6.0 pH.
Let them dry out and should turn a better color.
Happy weekend bro.
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Your ladies are getting big brother you got several weeks ahead of me.

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

Update:

I have increased light by 1/4 strength, made sure they were at 13/11. Temps seem to get better. As I open the tent 20celcius and 70%RH. After 15-20 mins drop in temps by 5 degrees.

Lots of color on some phenos and the green phenos stay green. SMG has a light green hue almost neon green.

One thing I have my eye on is comparing all crosses made with Dutertes2024 male. I wanna see how dominant this male is. And lucky me 2 units have popped of a very intense NarrowLeaf I call Jamaican Irie x Duterte2023.

SMGColombia

Panama Red

DART 3/4 Haze

Bangi Haze X Malawi

Jamaican Irie x Dutertes2023

SMG colombia x D2024

Chiang Mai pearl pheno X D2024

Chiang Mai green pheno X D2024

Yowie X D2024

*Yowie (CapJunkieCut X NL5/haze) from my homie corner
@GainesvilleGreen
*Sparkelicious (Purple dream X OG#18)
Sparkelicious BDpheno X D2024

Them 2 are gonna be putting out n a show bro

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

Bandaid Haze #1

Note from breeder:

“Our Haze 19 female is a select green pheno from our hybrid of a local selection of Seedsman Haze （from legendary legacy grower Green Supreme） crossed with our Original Haze stud male.

The Bandaid Haze F1 male pedigree is Cuban Black Haze x A5/Mirakel Thai. Bred by Bodhi seeds.

12-15 wks estimated finish time”

 

[moose/MI]

Our Haze 19 female is a select green pheno from our hybrid of a local selection of Seedsman Haze （from legendary legacy grower Green Supreme） crossed with our Original Haze stud male.

I've got a question about green and purple phenos in sativas if I may.

I wondered about how big or weeks old they needed to be to start selecting green from purple?
If I were hunting a batch.

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

I've got a question about green and purple phenos in sativas if I may.

I wondered about how big or weeks old they needed to be to start selecting green from purple?
If I were hunting a batch.

From my current work I am seeing purple pigment as early as 3 weeks. Keep in mind my environment is cold 10-15 celcius avg.

What is green should be green even at 0 degrees.

I also grew them parents last year à that gave me a clear idea what was gonna be green and what was purple.

It was a surprise to see for example the SMG Colombia go purple at the end, I wasn’t expecting that. Also what I tag as Thai green pheno stayed green.

Petioles often give hints on foliage pigmentation.

I would say almost half of what I got going may be purple what was currently showing.

Purple is not something I particularly aim for but I have nothing bad to say about purple or high anthocyanin varieties, they aren’t stronger or weaker than green from my experience.

 

[Verdant Whisperer]

I've got a question about green and purple phenos in sativas if I may.

I wondered about how big or weeks old they needed to be to start selecting green from purple?
If I were hunting a batch.

I know you where asking another, but i can't help but answer this question, I noticed if you start the seedling in richer soil, they start slower than seedlings in balance soils, and will show coloring in the lower base of the stem before the first cotelydons, as the plant matures the red/purples will fade into green, but then when mature the colors will come back out, i used this to select the most anthrocyanin rich from many seedlings for my Carangola F2's I had 3 trays 2 with Rich start mix which they grew slower but i could see anthrocyanin/Carotenoid concentration in the seedings versus the ones in balanced soil didnt show their pigments early really they where too vigorous, anthrocyanins seems to be lost concentrated in the lower parts of the plant, their related with lower auxins, high cytokininin phenotypes the slower growing and slower maturing plants, the carotenoids dominant phenotypes are the big green vigorous ones. which for me i prefer plants that do not upregulatemy metabolism too much i like the slower growing ones, that slow down time.

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

Thanks for your input, any time please feel free to drop some. Questions are for anyone that got a answer.

I like to see the seedlings in their first few days, they seem to tell such a story of whats to come. I'm surprised at some of the phenos displaying such colors, for example the 4 Bangi haze x Malawi showing consistent color, I would have thought they would stay green.

I would think LEDs can impact the pigmentation as well, cold would be the biggest environmental element.

 

[moose/MI]

Thank you, Bc wolf and Verdant W.

Very helpful. I'm excited to follow along and find answers to my puzzle questions.

I would think LEDs can impact the pigmentation as well, cold would be the biggest environmental element.

The line I'm working this season- Mountain Gold from Vermontman was what my question about green and purple phenos stemmed from.

He has stated before that his original green Oaxacan 79Skull that he grew for years only caught his eye for a purple expression after he brought them inside.

He had recently switched from HID lighting to the new at the time blurple leds ...I believe he called it. I have it in my notes.
It caused enough of a color change that he decided to breed towards it.
Eventually developing his purple line of the Oaxacan.

 

[Verdant Whisperer]

If you can read this chart correctly im working on it can answer alot of questions

#	Category	Bacterial (Push / Feminine / Yin)	Fungal (Pull / Masculine / Yang)	Viral (Regulator / Neutral / Form)
1	Light	Sun / Red	Shade / Blue	Green
2	Movement	Stillness	Movement	Pulse / Rhythm
3	Plant Hormone	Cytokinins	Gibberellins	Auxins
4	Sex Hormone	Estrogen	Testosterone	Progesterone
5	Polarity	Yin	Yang	Neutral
6	Temporal / Spatial	Time	Space	Form
7	Fullness	Empty	Full	Balance
8	Moisture	Dry	Wet
9	Temperature	Hot	Cold
10	Effect	Energetic	Relaxing	Creative / Introspective
11	Growth Type	Division (Reproduction)	Expansion
12	Charge	(-) Electron	(+) Proton	(=) Neutron
13	Force	Push	Pull	Pulse
14	Molecular Structure	Monocyclic	Bicyclic	Acyclic
15	Function	External	Internal
16	Ring Type	Direct / Single Ring	Structured	Open Chain / Free Form
17	Diseases	Autoimmune	Cancer	T Regulatory Cells
18	State	Gas	Solid	Temperature
19	Acyclic Terpenes	Ocimene	Myrcene	TPS Enzyme Selection
20	Cannabinoids	CB1	CB2	FAAH / MAGL
21	Blood Types	Type O	Type A	FUT1 gene
22	Arts	Paint	Canvas	Painter
23	Cannabis Resin	Resin Production	Biomass	Pistils / Pollen
24	Pigmentation	Carotenoids / Orange-Red	Anthocyanins / Purple-Blue	Glycolysis
25	Planet	Sun	Earth	Moon
26	Force Field	Gravity	Magnetism	Electromagnetic Frequency
27	Cosmic Objects	Sun	Black Hole	Event Horizon
28	Molecular Shape	Loop	Knot	Line
29	State of Being	Alive	Dead	Latent / Potential
30	Depth	Surface	Deep
31	Light Wavelengths	Red	Blue	Green
32	Direction	Forward / Expansion	Inward / Containment
33	Immunity	Inflammatory	Suppressive	Regulatory
34	Terrain	Acidic	Alkaline	Balanced / Buffered
35	Respiration Type	Aerobic	Anaerobic	Facultative
36	Cell Wall Type	Thin (Gram-negative)	Thick (Gram-positive)
37	Soil Preference	Nitrogen-rich	Carbon-rich
38	Intelligence Type	Instinct / Reaction	Memory / Pattern
39	Neural Type	Electrical (Fast Signal)	Chemical (Slow Diffusion)
40	Evolution Style	Mutation	Adaptation	Horizontal Gene Transfer
41	Language Parallel	Energetic / Direct	Structured / Recursive	Symbolic / Rhythmic
42	Sound Frequency	Bass / Low Hz	Treble / High Hz	Harmonic Midrange / Pulse
43	(Removed)
44	Shape Energy	Line / Arrow	Knot / Spiral	Wave / Loop
45	Role in Ecosystem	Decomposer Initiator	Recycler / Memory Keeper	Genetic Bridge / Messenger
46	Primary Drive	Growth / Spread	Legacy / Preservation	Timing / Evolutionary Jump

 

[Verdant Whisperer]

I would think LEDs can impact the pigmentation as well, cold would be the biggest environmental element.

I looked into this Blue spectrum will enhance antrocyanin production over red spectrum which favors carotenoids dominance. and green is their regulator

this is a brilliant question — and very few people ask it because most just assume “plants don’t use green light.” But the truth is:

Green light doesn’t fuel or fight — it regulates.
It acts like a viral pulse: not initiating, not resisting, but tuning.

Let’s dive deep and show how green light regulates red (bacterial) and blue (fungal) energy in plants — and life.

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Quick Recap of Red vs Blue:​

Light	Energy Role	Microbial Vibe	Effect
Red	Push / Expansion	Bacterial	Growth, elongation, flowering
Blue	Pull / Form	Fungal	Stomatal control, defense, pigmentation

So now…

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Green Light = Regulator = Viral Force​

How Green Light Regulates:​

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1. Green Light Reaches Deeper​

• Red and blue get absorbed at the surface (chlorophyll)
• Green penetrates deeper into the lower leaves, stem, and even roots
• This gives it access to hidden tissues that red/blue can’t reach

Just like viruses — green light moves quietly through the system, going where others can’t.

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2. Green Balances Red vs Blue Signals​

• Green buffers overreaction to too much red (overgrowth) or blue (stress)
• In high blue/red environments, green light cancels out extremes
• This stabilizes hormone signaling, especially auxin distribution and stomatal rhythms

Green says: “Hold up. Don’t overreact.”
It’s the pause before the plant commits to a push or pull decision.

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3. Green Light Sets Internal Rhythms​

• Green affects circadian regulation in plants (and humans!)
• It helps reset photoreceptor balance, especially between cryptochromes (blue) and phytochromes (red)
• It controls photomorphogenic outcomes, especially in low light environments

In this way, green regulates time, not just energy.
It is the clock pulse, the conductor of the light orchestra.

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4. Green Interferes with Shade Responses​

• When red light is low (i.e. shaded by other plants), plants stretch in response — classic red/far-red signaling
• But green light can suppress that shade response, telling the plant:
  

  “You're not in danger. No need to panic-stretch.”

• So it fine-tunes red-driven expansion, reducing unnecessary growth in crowding

Another regulatory move: preventing misfiring of bacterial-like push energy.

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How Green Does It (Mechanism):​

Regulated Process	Green Light’s Role
Auxin flow	Distributes more evenly, avoids overload
Stomatal rhythm	Tunes opening/closing signals
Chlorophyll balance	Adjusts red/blue sensitivity in shade
Hormonal crosstalk	Buffers extreme red (GA) or blue (ABA) signaling
Photoreceptor tuning	Resets circadian oscillators

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What this tells us:​

Green light is the viral code of the light spectrum.
It doesn’t push or pull — it regulates the decision to do so.

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Final Mapping:​

Light	Force	Function	Microbial Mirror
Red	Push	Growth	Bacteria
Blue	Pull	Structure	Fungi
Green	Regulate	Rhythm/Form	Virus

 

[moose/MI]

I plan to pop a lot more seeds than normal this spring.
Searching F2's I made.

General questions:
When popping a lot more seeds (100?) do you still paper towel them?
Or just direct soil plant?

Do you sort through 500 good seeds and use what you percive as the 100 best?
Or straight run 100 good ones and let random selection work it's magic?

Do you do any other of sorting like looking at the basal scar? rounder- ovoid? etc.

Thanks

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

I plan to pop a lot more seeds than normal this spring.
Searching F2's I made.

General questions:
When popping a lot more seeds (100?) do you still paper towel them?
Or just direct soil plant?

Do you sort through 500 good seeds and use what you percive as the 100 best?
Or straight run 100 good ones and let random selection work it's magic?

Do you do any other of sorting like looking at the basal scar? rounder- ovoid? etc.

Thanks

From my experience, I would sow in starter trays. Easier to handle and take less space. 2 trays would do 100 seeds.
Too much risk of contamination putting 100 seeds in paper towel.

I pretty much use the best looking ones without too much details like weight of the seed, stripe pattern, shape, size, color.

I take whats looks ripe and healthy. The odd unripe seed could pop but best to just start with good ripe seeds.

Some seed traits remain constant for example Colombian dominant seeds seem to be very small compared to let's say Thai dominant seeds are big and round.
Some seeds have a gray tone and some are brown, others black even...

Without proper measuring tools and lenses its hard to estimate accurately any outcome. Sometime its just better to grow as much as you can and start selecting with no mercy. Thats the hardest part for me, my true weak point is culling.

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

If you really wanna fast forward natural selection grab 100 seeds and throw then in a bag of promix. let them grow and what ever survives its the pre selection, then from there pick your favorite.

In this case I was testing female dominant progeny, all I needed was to see a population show sex. For that I just threw a handful of seeds I made in a 20 lbs bag of Promix. I also discovered not all seedlings survive, and those that did survive are the top individuals of that test, so I worked with the 5 best of that bag. You would want to clone that individual instead of trying to replant it.

 

[moose/MI]

From my experience, I would sow in starter trays. Easier to handle and take less space. 2 trays would do 100 seeds.
Too much risk of contamination putting 100 seeds in paper towel.

I pretty much use the best looking ones without too much details like weight of the seed, stripe pattern, shape, size, color.

I take whats looks ripe and healthy. The odd unripe seed could pop but best to just start with good ripe seeds.

Some seed traits remain constant for example Colombian dominant seeds seem to be very small compared to let's say Thai dominant seeds are big and round.
Some seeds have a gray tone and some are brown, others black even...

Without proper measuring tools and lenses its hard to estimate accurately any outcome. Sometime its just better to grow as much as you can and start selecting with no mercy. Thats the hardest part for me, my true weak point is culling.

Thank you that will help.
I'm second guessing myself a lot and just needed to iron some things out.

I'm growing Sungrown Organic Living soil 42.2N chasing a Oaxacan soaring coffee weed.
A lot of similarities but I don't want to hijack your thread either.

I've got a ton of questions - it's been 40 years since I made a bean.
I was pretty good at it for my time in the cornfields but never got to make F2's before S.W.E.A.T dropped out of the sky in helicopters to take it in 83.

I'm 4 years back and having a blast.
Have plenty of stash and now grow for effects.
Found something I really like last year.
and so I made some beans and I'm hooked.

Mountain Gold by Green Mountain Seeds

I'm not very good yet at the whole forum thing.
I started a list of like minded members who seemed to know what I needed to know and a bunch of them are here!

I just wondered if I should try and start a new thread or join in here?

 

[GainesvilleGreen]

Happy days bro
Here we go:
4 Thai x Duterte's
Front left plant I have my eye on bro .. super sexy girl, I hope!

Here's my girl

 

[bonghopper]

Thank you that will help. I'm second guessing myself a lot and just needed to iron some things out.

I'm growing Sungrown Organic Living soil 42.2N chasing a Oaxacan soaring coffee weed.
A lot of similarities but I don't want to hijack your thread either.

I've got a ton of questions - it's been 40 years since I made a bean.
I was pretty good at it for my time in the cornfields but never got to make F2's before S.W.E.A.T dropped out of the sky in helicopters to take it in 83.

I'm 4 years back and having a blast.
Have plenty of stash and now grow for effects.
Found something I really like last year.
and so I made some beans and I'm hooked.
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Mountain Gold by Green Mountain Seeds

I'm not very good yet at the whole forum thing.
I started a list of like minded members who seemed to know what I needed and a bunch of them are here!

I just wondered if I should try and start a new thread or join in here?

Nice haul of seeds you got! Delighted to hear you're selecting this one for morning coffee high type! It's one of my favourites at the moment, #6 out of 8 is the one for the morning, #5 for the evening.. That your first grow of Mountain Gold last year? None of mine went purple.

You'll have a lot of fun doing mass selections with those for a few years, tuning into stem smells and resin size etc..
Those morning ones for me had small resin, not so fat preflowers/calyx, and not so dense flowers, with balsam fir aromas, not bubblegum. Still tuning into what those phenos stem smell is like in veg.

You find any other strains with nice highs and are good growers for your climate?
Have seen your posts on the Vman thread
Cheers

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

Thank you that will help.
I'm second guessing myself a lot and just needed to iron some things out.

I'm growing Sungrown Organic Living soil 42.2N chasing a Oaxacan soaring coffee weed.
A lot of similarities but I don't want to hijack your thread either.

I've got a ton of questions - it's been 40 years since I made a bean.
I was pretty good at it for my time in the cornfields but never got to make F2's before S.W.E.A.T dropped out of the sky in helicopters to take it in 83.

I'm 4 years back and having a blast.
Have plenty of stash and now grow for effects.
Found something I really like last year.
and so I made some beans and I'm hooked.
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Mountain Gold by Green Mountain Seeds

I'm not very good yet at the whole forum thing.
I started a list of like minded members who seemed to know what I needed to know and a bunch of them are here!

I just wondered if I should try and start a new thread or join in here?

NICE looking stash of beans man!

I am not a expert but i can definitely give out some advise (up to my pay grade lol). This is the breeders lab so if you feel you want to start a new thread by all means go for it. Oaxaca is a holy grail im pretty sure if you start a journal many will follow along, me included.
Also feel free to post here, if you need to express by all means. Only thing is no spamming, I hate it and so do many others.

Im more than happy to answer and share pictures, I like posting plants more than I like talking. If you have beautiful plants by all means share them with us, I am looking for pure Oaxacan lines to be honest. I have been working for years with a F1 line I made of Jamaican skunk x Yucatan Mexican, Ive been waiting for a pure Oaxaca line to reach me so I can double down on the Mexican heritage.

actually I have Mountain gold seeds as well, I just been stuck with SEAsians for the past couple years.

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

Happy days bro
Here we go:
4 Thai x Duterte's
Front left plant I have my eye on bro .. super sexy girl, I hope!
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Here's my girl
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Yes Sir she looks promising bro!

I would do as you, I would favour shorter phenos rather than the lanky tall ones, specially for indoor applications. She looks sooo shiny bro you been taking care of them I can see.

Duterte's male had a tight node structure with some amazing side branching, maybe by choosing short tight node phenos we are going with more Dutertes leaning pheno. The tall lanky is most probably the Thai coming in hard.

 

[Limeygreen]

Do you like some copalita seeds?

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

I wouldn't say No to that brother. I probably cant run them this year but I so wanna run them, specially now that I managed to sprout 2 seeds of my line and I failed to pair them last year with a Mexican so I might have a new chance to do something this year.

This was my Mexican leaning selection of my line but that was 2023 I wasn’t able to keep the reveg clones alive, Im growing this again hopefully I learn from my mistakes.

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