What i will be smoking tooday
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Mouthwatering, I really want to try haze some day... Sounds like the ultimate in party smokes...
Is that fresh harvest?
Tom Hill said:Hello S_a_H,
I have very limited experience with Auto Flowering genetics. About 20 years ago I played around with them some outdoors. In the F1's between the AF ("Phil's Red") I was working with and other lines, the AF trait seemed fully expressed or not at all. I was hoping for some mid values in regards to harvest timing and saw little if any of that. I'm sure you have more experience with this though than I.
I think this is where their biggest potential lies -
If the trait is passed on in the all or nothing so to speak then I'd want it fully expressed, but I would be crossing AF's to tropicals as apposed to plants like PTK. I think we want mega-stretch, and potency/quality of smoke coupled with that AF trait. If we could deliver a plant that was planted in May and consistently harvested 4+ oz of high-quality by early August in northern climes, then we'd really have something special I think that would appeal to a wide range of growers. That's what I'd be shooting for anyway, and I don't think we could get there via PTK.
In regards to the PTK, most of the variation is in the flavor. There is pine, pineapple, lemon, skunk, and more in there. In choosing parents for hybrids, I'd select away from the broadest leaved and thick stemmed phenotypes, then towards your preferred flavor and other traits regarding resin quantity/quality. -Tom