There have been precious few glimpses into the KC genetics, but all have indicated a pretty stable genome methinks. There is the KC itself, then I grew out the only other 2 seeds from the original bud the KC came from, I exchanged with the original finder for some other seeds. I only got one to germ and it produced a female indistinguishable to the KC and sadly I lost it as I mixed up the labelling and flowered it out thinking it was a cut of the KC, but it was identical. The other glimpses are the two S1s I have going now which seem so far to be very close if not identical, and the KC x Flo work Elevator Man is doing looks to be indicating a fairly stable f1 with both flo and kc phenos, if the KC was unstable, there would be loads of phenos and it doesn't seem that way so far.
The KC itself is capable of a vast range of phenotypical expression however, it grows differently in different environments, the opposite of the Cheese which always smells the same and looks pretty much the same, the KC is 'a chameleon' to quote Elevator Man. What that indicates as regards the genetics and their stability or lack of, I don't know.
I'll say this though - if ever I saw a plant that screamed 'breeding potential' it's the KC, there is a lot of resin, potency and flavour in there, mixed in with some undesirable traits such as a slight tendency to produce male flowers under stress, a lot of stretch, an unwillingness to branch and below average yield.
It's definitely a great candidate for hybridisation, I'm not sure what lines would make good pollen sources to cross to it, Hindu Kush would probably be a good one.
I'm not sure where I stand on the woody stems as an indicator of high potency thing. I can think of several plants I have grown that were highly potent and also has woody stems - Chemo, Herijuana and the KC all spring to mind, and the Blueberry male I had that was the best male I ever saw was also notably woody, but I can thinks of others that weren't woody at all that also had extreme potency.
I find the KC hard to clone, cuts seem to take an age to root, perhaps due to the woodiness.
The KC itself is capable of a vast range of phenotypical expression however, it grows differently in different environments, the opposite of the Cheese which always smells the same and looks pretty much the same, the KC is 'a chameleon' to quote Elevator Man. What that indicates as regards the genetics and their stability or lack of, I don't know.
I'll say this though - if ever I saw a plant that screamed 'breeding potential' it's the KC, there is a lot of resin, potency and flavour in there, mixed in with some undesirable traits such as a slight tendency to produce male flowers under stress, a lot of stretch, an unwillingness to branch and below average yield.
It's definitely a great candidate for hybridisation, I'm not sure what lines would make good pollen sources to cross to it, Hindu Kush would probably be a good one.
I'm not sure where I stand on the woody stems as an indicator of high potency thing. I can think of several plants I have grown that were highly potent and also has woody stems - Chemo, Herijuana and the KC all spring to mind, and the Blueberry male I had that was the best male I ever saw was also notably woody, but I can thinks of others that weren't woody at all that also had extreme potency.
I find the KC hard to clone, cuts seem to take an age to root, perhaps due to the woodiness.
