ErdPurt likes to start to flower here at 37ºN as soon as July, when the photoperiod is approx 15/9.
ErdPurt regular is back in stock
Happy to announce that ErdPurt regular is back in stock from recent indoor reproduction of the strain.
It's probably the best and most interesting reproduction we have done with this strain up to date. We started seeds from 6 different ErdPurt regular lines from different parent plants and from different generations and lines with the goal to avoid excessive inbreeding and to maximize the chances to find new relevant individuals (of different expressions to the ones we already have in our mother room) to keep for future breeding.
ErdPurt was already quite inbred when we started to work with her.
In my experience, hashplant indicas closer to landraces (that's the case with ErdPurt, or Deep Chunk to name another) suffer much more negatively from inbreeding than for example pure sativa landraces, or outcrossed sativa/indica hybrids or unstabilized complex indica dom polyhybrids like modern Kush strains. We experienced a decrease in the quality and vigor when heavily inbreeding ErdPurt through for example selfing (S1) or when reproducing the strain with parent plants from the same filial generation. That's why i decided to use as many different lines as possible for this reproduction, as much generationally distant from each other as possible.
So roughly 100 plants were grown indoors, ending up with approx 60 females and 40 males from the different lines to choose from. All the females were cloned. Best yielding and more vigorous males were selected based on our previous breeding experience with the strain. The best selected males from different lines open pollinated all and every new female, producing 60 new regular seedlines. Notes of all the different females were taken during flowering, clones of the most desirable females were grown and smoked to determine which are the best ones, not only based on best visual flowering traits, but also based on potency, terpenes and effects. We only found a couple of hermie plants (result of our previous breeding efforts to 'clean' the line from hermaphroditism). After the smoking tests, only 5 new females are kept in the mother room from this new reproduction: green phenos, very colorful ones and intermediate green/purple phenos, one is especially relevant/elite, a super resinous and powerful pheno, even more resinous than some modern indoor Kush (ie Bubba Kush) grown at the same time under same conditions.
So summing up, the offspring of this hard work is what is going to be available in this new ErdPurt regular release.
Beside the ErdPurt breeding, we have also produced a few new ErdPurt regular hybrids which have been included in our R+D section for further evaluation:
Bangi Haze x ErdPurt
Bubba Kush x ErdPurt
CBD #1 x ErdPurt
CBD #5 x ErdPurt
Juanita La lagrimosa x ErdPurt
Lavender x ErdPurt
Golden Tiger x ErdPurt
Purple Malawi x ErdPurt
New Malawi Killer x ErdPurt
Malawi x PCK # 47 purple pheno x ErdPurt
Panama Goddess (F10) x ErdPurt
Purple Zamal x ErdPurt
Since ErdPurt fem version is also out of stock, we have started now a new ErdPurt fem reproduction. The parent plant chosen for the reversion is an old green ErdPurt pheno we call ErdPurt A, as we have had very good results breeding with her and i feel is important to use older, less inbred and fully tested parent plants for this job (for the reasons mentioned previously).
The plan is to use the reversed pollen from ErdPurt A to pollinate the best new selected females from recent regular reproduction, but also to pollinate interesting new generation females from the regular offspring coming from the lines of these recently selected females that are being germinated as we speak.
Hope you find the info valuable and interesting. Will keep you updated with the results of the new fem reproduction when the job is done.
