New England Strain Selection 2015

[walkingstick]

Hey y'all!
Whats good? Over half a dec veteran here. 2014 was my best season yet. Finally took the advice of many and got some quality genetics. Well at least known genetics, see I'd been breeding my own bag seed until then. It was actually quite nice but lets get to the point.
I read a lot of info about strains and such, but I don't here much about growers in the northeast. At 44N and about 200 miles inland from the coast, my climate is short with periods of intense heat, humidity, and sometimes rain/drought. I feel that I've covered a lot of ground improving my methods but like most GG's I'm looking for plants that are vigorous, tough, and don't flower too long.
While I appreciate all advice, I'm looking for Nor Easter's who've been in the game and know what I'm talking about.
1. What are your favorite strains?
2. (optional) Where's the best place to get em?

Thanks and peace and much love.
p.s. If y'all interested I can list what I've run too, what was successful.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

heribei,blueberry headband,easy sativa,frisen dew,purple maroc,biddy early,the church,serious 6 and blue hashplant..i get mine from seedsman! my fav strain to run though is Delahaze..im at 37.5 n so it might not do as well for u there as it does me but the 1st ones i listed will do very well for u..there is a few more GG that will pop in here im sure..oh yea kc33 and blue widow will do well for u as well.. 2014 was my worst season ever due to wrong strain choices and lots of rain from july till end of sept before it really dried up..it was awesome while in veg and first few weeks of flower and i was praying that the rain stop in time

 

[walkingstick]

Thanks! Ive run headband, KC33, and my self bred bag seed was a mix of a very skunky male with a unremarkable female, so Ive got a skunk hybrid going for a few years. Ran c99, bubblegum, northern lights, chocolope, frisian dew, critical neville haze, and the headbands were blueberry and g13 crosses. Faraona was huge, lemon kush clone did well. Only thing I wasnt impressed with was a bunch of supposedly GDP clones. Very small leafy nugs with no smell etc. Headband was a top producer.
I suppose I was lucky 2014 because we didnt have a hard frost until November which was EXTREMELY unusual. Then again everything was just about finished by mid October.
I suppose I'm looking for hardy, vigorous plants that finish by end of September early October. Frisian did this as advertised but didn't yield very heavy and also suffered some black botrytis. Strange. I'm beginning to wonder if how much genetics comes into play, vs. enhanced techniques. Then again, cold tolerant/early finishers wouldn't hurt.
Thanks again!

 

[walkingstick]

Woops! Just remembered. I'd really like to try something with Afghan genetics. Alot of ppl here run AK-47 and such. These generally are short flowering yea?

 

[Green Squall]

I hear Blue Widow does great outdoors. Very relaxing strain.

 

[walkingstick]

Alright, good to know. That's Blue Widow x 2. Gonna check it out for sure. Thanks partner.

 

[almostthere1]

i live at 44.8 in the northeast. i run guerrilla gold and crosses of it. i get them from rcmc. most seeds there are breed at or above my latitude in canada. hope this helps.

 

[El Gato]

Guerrilla gold is a waste of money and time!
I run a Satori x Texada Timewarp @ 41 every year with excellent results. I have one season with a Timebomb x Mandala #1 cross that was a 10 out of 10 first go round.
The Satori Timewarp avg 1.9 per!
You will have to make them, that's how I got them.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

Thanks! Ive run headband, KC33, and my self bred bag seed was a mix of a very skunky male with a unremarkable female, so Ive got a skunk hybrid going for a few years. Ran c99, bubblegum, northern lights, chocolope, frisian dew, critical neville haze, and the headbands were blueberry and g13 crosses. Faraona was huge, lemon kush clone did well. Only thing I wasnt impressed with was a bunch of supposedly GDP clones. Very small leafy nugs with no smell etc. Headband was a top producer.
I suppose I was lucky 2014 because we didnt have a hard frost until November which was EXTREMELY unusual. Then again everything was just about finished by mid October.
I suppose I'm looking for hardy, vigorous plants that finish by end of September early October. Frisian did this as advertised but didn't yield very heavy and also suffered some black botrytis. Strange. I'm beginning to wonder if how much genetics comes into play, vs. enhanced techniques. Then again, cold tolerant/early finishers wouldn't hurt.
Thanks again!

how did it turn out in terms of yeild,potency and mold resistance on the blueberry headband?.. farona from kannabia seeds? i come 1 hair of getting that strain but couldnt find no reviews on it..thats strange u didnt get a yeild from the Frisien dew. ever report i have seen on it was monster yeilds 10 oz +...biddy early is what u want man..its potent,yeilds great done by end of sept and most of very hardy..the serious 6 has great reviews on it..just look in the serious 6 fourm here..all the plants i listed are hardy plants..thats all that i go for is hardy plants bc without them being hardy i will have no harvest..my humidity stays 100% most days of their full flower with it never dropping lower then 85 or 90%..check this thread team microbe loves blue widow and it does do great outdoors..i will get it after this year and the blue hashplant from dinafem bc they are proven strains for a guerilla grower as well
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=296598

 

[jay-toker]

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[walkingstick]

@almostthere1 - thanks brotha, rcmc seems a bit pricey no? same with guerrila gold. but I appreciate the info. will check it out.

@El gato - I hear you, I'm going to be purchasing regs this year for breeding, as well as crossing with my own hybrid ive got going. I'm beginning to wonder about all these pricey strains. Texada timewarp from BC bud depot? Satori from Mandala? Thanks for the info.

@jay-toker - MoB, as in Moby Dick? Yea fries/freeze is tough to find. Im interested in something heavier on the indica. Guerilla gold just seems to pricey for me.Thanks for the info. peace

@Kygiacoma - Due to my methods, which aren't the best admittedly, I have trouble getting adequate water to my girls. So they run on the dry side. Plus most of my environment is partial light, so I typically get 5' ers that average about 2-3oz. The Frisian fit right into this category with 2.5 oz. Mold seems to depend more on the micro climate, and most of my girls were in an area with drier vegetation. However 2 of the blueberry headbands got 7' + but due to lack of H2O only yielded around 3 oz. A smaller shrubbier blueberry headband was planted in a spot with heavy vegetation that kept it moist. It yielded 6oz + of super fat dank bud, like water bottle thick. No mold. I think mold is a function of sunlight+humidity+plant health in general. I only encounter mold in darker, damper micro climates. usually lose around 5-10% of buds.

 

[El Gato]

@El gato - I hear you, I'm going to be purchasing regs this year for breeding, as well as crossing with my own hybrid ive got going. I'm beginning to wonder about all these pricey strains. Texada timewarp from BC bud depot? Satori from Mandala? Thanks for the info.

My Texada timewarp came straight from Texada island BC and the Satori is from Mandala's first release of Satori. In my humble opinion the Satori has never been the same as the original batch of seeds.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

My Texada timewarp came straight from Texada island BC and the Satori is from Mandala's first release of Satori. In my humble opinion the Satori has never been the same as the original batch of seeds.

i have heard others say the same thing about the Satori as well bro

@Kygiacoma - Due to my methods, which aren't the best admittedly, I have trouble getting adequate water to my girls. So they run on the dry side. Plus most of my environment is partial light, so I typically get 5' ers that average about 2-3oz. The Frisian fit right into this category with 2.5 oz. Mold seems to depend more on the micro climate, and most of my girls were in an area with drier vegetation. However 2 of the blueberry headbands got 7' + but due to lack of H2O only yielded around 3 oz. A smaller shrubbier blueberry headband was planted in a spot with heavy vegetation that kept it moist. It yielded 6oz + of super fat dank bud, like water bottle thick. No mold. I think mold is a function of sunlight+humidity+plant health in general. I only encounter mold in darker, damper micro climates. usually lose around 5-10% of buds.

thats good to know about the blueberry headband..sounds like i need to put at least one these on my best plot then..10hrs maybe 11 of direct sun and a hour or so of ambient light..mold is always a issue here due to humidity sticking at 100% but im doing things alot differnt this year. im inducing SAR 4 ways useing neem& karnaja oil early in veg to keep spores from ever being able to take hold along with potassium silica..liquid sea weed to also increase disease resistance..i picked alot of wrong strains last year plus the rain started around end of august and didnt stop till around end of sept by then the buds was so big they rotted on most my strains except the delahaze but i didnt use nothing in terms of IPM..im ready to go to war with those mfering spores this year..oh ya and i got mychorrize as well.i had none that stuff before

 

[walkingstick]

@El-gato - As you said about the satori, I really wonder about the efficacy of doing all this strain hunting and research, when it seems the best route is creating your own hybrids from things that have worked well before. Hybrid vigor is hybrid vigor, whether I buy it or make it myself. Thanks

@Kygiacomo- Yea the rain can be a big problem here too, especially in late sept through october. Like I said, last year was a god send. I think you are on the right track with all the preventative approaches. A healthy plant immune system is always a good start. Im checking your serious 6 out though. Thanks again.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

@El-gato - As you said about the satori, I really wonder about the efficacy of doing all this strain hunting and research, when it seems the best route is creating your own hybrids from things that have worked well before. Hybrid vigor is hybrid vigor, whether I buy it or make it myself. Thanks

@Kygiacomo- Yea the rain can be a big problem here too, especially in late sept through october. Like I said, last year was a god send. I think you are on the right track with all the preventative approaches. A healthy plant immune system is always a good start. Im checking your serious 6 out though. Thanks again.

np bro..they are some good reports here on IC about it all with good results..i have yet to find anything bad about serious strains that are grown out to their full potential..the best thing about it is serious has the best customer service in the business imo..i had trouble with the biddy germ rates and i contacted them about it and they sent me a free pack with 1 extra in it for the troubles..cant really go wrong with them..gl man hope u make a journal of what u do decide to do

 

[Scrappy-doo]

A buddy of mine used to run blue widow outside at 41. Good producer. Decent smoke. Finished well in the rainy fall.

 

[Lester Beans]

Blue Widow, Romulan, Timewarp, sensi Hindu kush kicks ass at 44. Also Dynamite is a good one or anything from BOG.