I can pass on a bit more info on ABC/Dizzy now, there is a guy called Mongyman who I've had a few chats with online and he claims, (and he has pics to back it up and sounds very genuine) that ABC and Dizzy both descend from what he calsl Mongy, which is a mutation found in their yard by an old couple 30 years ago and has been preserved by mongyman ever since, over the years he gave out thousands of seeds and that is the source of all the mutant strains. He explained how ABC was simply Mongy seeds given to Mark Emery by someone who got them from mongyman. Fet refuses to enter into any discussion with mongyman and ignores any questions adout whether Dizzy is related to mongy.
A couple of months ago, a grower on another forum found a mutat that looks exactly like Mongy/ABC/Dizzy in a pack of seeds (can't remember the strain) he grw out, he kept the plant and is working on crossing it in hopes of breeding and selectign for the mutation. Others over the years have claimed to have seen similar mutants in otherwise normal strains, they are very, very rare though it would seem, but with them cropping up all over the place in single numbers and in different strains, I tend to think the mutation is caused by chemicals or some other factor, could just be a random mutation, whatever it is, it isn't unique to Australia and isn't a landrace aussie strain like Fet has calimed about Dizzy. Why haven't we seen anything of Dizzy apart from a few pics? Why hasn't Fet raked in the money by selling them?
The Ducksfoot are stil lflowering, going over 20 weeks, probably take 22 or 23, I pollinated one with C99 pollen, one with Blueberry pollen and the third one I'm going to leave to reodelize and self pollinate as Ducksfoot (at least the ones I have) will produce bananas and self-pollinate producing feminised beans if allowed to live a few weeks after ripeness.
I've bee trying to track down some Hawaiian webbed indica to cross to the Duck but it's hard to find to say the least, I did manage to get hold of some Molokai Frost x Strawberry Web (pheno of HWI) beans so maybe I'll see some webbed ones among those, apparently the trait is recessive and will only appear in the F2 gen, not the F1, so I guess I'll have to make F2s and look for webbed ones.
Oh well, yeah, apparently the seeds aren't available yet but the maker is supposedly working out a deal with Dr. Chronic.
