so far the sweet skunk early version is doing great !!! way ahead of all my other plants. planning on cutting mid-late September !! way sooner than an early skunk or skunk #1. so heres my question, i see a bunch of breeders across the pond in Spain and other locations that offer early version or fast versions of their strains... from what I've seen they take an auto and a photo and breed them together to create these early version seeds....
HOW COME THERE AREN'T ANY U.S BREEDERS MAKING EARLY VERSION SEEDS ?????
can we not take a thai stick clone and breed with a thai auto to create a thai stick early version sativa that finishes around october ??
thanks lol
Concerning your thai auto cross with a thai photo period idea, you'd probably get some variation in your offspring . First pass isn't normally enough to create a stable cross. Maybe 25% would be what you hoped for and the rest would be all over the map so to speak. Probably would want to stabilize the cross before relying on that combo for a main crop.
If you're looking for a way to shorten the finish times of some late flowering strains, you might look into Iranian Auto Flower (Dr. Greenthumb) to use as something to cross with. Oregon Green Seeds also used Dr. Greenthumbs Iranian to make their own version and for a while offered it in regular seeds. Which can be helpful if you want a male.
I've done a little pollen chucking making Iranian crosses over the years and can usually get stuff to finish by late August, early September, (sometimes even earlier) most of the early finishers don't get "huge", a half pounder might be a good one. Last year had one Iranian C99 finish late August that got pretty close to a pound of really nice sticky potent outdoor.
This year, I put out a couple MOB / Iranian crosses. One finished completely by 8/25 and was sort of indica looking, probably 6-7 ounces when she's all dried. The other is a bluish bud looking girl which looks like she'll yield about 10 ounces or so, she's just about done now (9/2) I expect both will be decent smoke. Popped a few more MOB / Iranian seeds to play with indoors and see what other phenos are in that mix, to see if it's worth stabilizing.
The Iranian Auto flower girl is difficult to get to turn into a male, using colloidal silver, but not impossible. They clone pretty well though. Dr, Greenthumb also offers a bunch of crosses using his Iranian that many people swear by outdoors. Some go into October, but most seem to finish by late September. You could expect some Iranian Haze type crosses to get big, (and finish later) if you want more weight. Pricey, and Dr. Greenthumb seems to rub some people the wrong way, but many people have been happy with his seeds outdoors.
I think you're on the right track trying to make your own crosses ...good luck.
it was a very upsetting day . Has to toss two plants cause of it