Guerrilla Warfare - Part 2 - Diesel Ryder, Auto Blueberry, Auto Assassin

Christopher Bradley said:

don't you love answering the same question over and over and ov......
anyway. i had seedlings pop outta snow once so it does not surprise me that they are frost tollerent. peace!
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That's just one of couple hundred readily great things about marijuana....it's a weed that can grow anywhere, and has the general survivability of one.

It's those hard freezes that are the real killers, like 1 or 2 nights in the low 20s...IMO.

hi420 said:

Great thread, man! Really love the plants

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Thanks man.

The next time I take pics there should be some vigorous growth...and hopefully some signs of flowering, which I haven't seen much of yet.

Nice grow brah. I'll be doing EXACT, well almost, same thing come May. Can you send me the pic of your plot (I have dial-up and cant load all those pics). Anyways I ask this becuase I've never grown outdoors and don't have the slightest clue about how or where to setup. Anyways if you can't thats cool. Goodluck man. Peace, respect, and plenty of bong hits for ya bro.

King Blunt said:

Nice grow brah. I'll be doing EXACT, well almost, same thing come May. Can you send me the pic of your plot (I have dial-up and cant load all those pics). Anyways I ask this becuase I've never grown outdoors and don't have the slightest clue about how or where to setup. Anyways if you can't thats cool. Goodluck man. Peace, respect, and plenty of bong hits for ya bro.

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If you're looking into learning more about growing outdoors, I would spend some time researching. Research which strains grow best in your area, then determine what your goals would be if you did grow, you know, put a plan together and execute it.

I might suggest reading more in the Outdoor section here on RIU, and on other websites. You could seemingly spend days/weeks/months/years reading all the great links that come up by simply typing the words "Growing marijuana outdoors" (with the quotes...they act as a qualifier and help filter results) into Google or your favorite search engine.

Armed with good background knowledge by reading and researching (along with a thought out grow-plan with a clear goal), you'll be just that much more prepared for all the ups and downs of growing when and if they come up while working on your own plot.

Good luck in your research bro-ham.

Get a water wall dude, they were made for you! They are miniature circular dams made of clear plastic. You inflate them with water and you have a new wall of thermal protection. The water absorbs heat all day, and holds it all night, keeping your plants 10 degrees warmer. They are cheap and available at any nursery in a cold weather area.

Never put to much thought into auto flower, but I feel like starting a outdoor up with some now, looks like a fun plant.

Jozikins said:

Get a water wall dude, they were made for you! They are miniature circular dams made of clear plastic. You inflate them with water and you have a new wall of thermal protection. The water absorbs heat all day, and holds it all night, keeping your plants 10 degrees warmer. They are cheap and available at any nursery in a cold weather area.

Never put to much thought into auto flower, but I feel like starting a outdoor up with some now, looks like a fun plant.

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Well luckily temps have increased, so there isn't a worry about temps as there was before. The low temps undoubtedly have affected their growth though.

Plus, that idea would be a rather cumbersome endeavor (for a number of reasons) working with 20+ buckets.

Things are working fine now; no complaints, all things being equal.

Auto-flowering strains are perfect for indoor plants, as many of them barely get above a foot or two.

One thing to note: apparently many auto-flowering strains struggle with direct-ground planting, so if you do go with an auto strain(s) outdoors, think about planting in containers/grow bags.

Just a suggestion.

Well I was able to separate several males & females today, moving all males to my male plot.

The male plot is sufficiently far away from the females, and protected in a 30-foot deep gully, surrounded by trees.

Here are the numbers:

-Auto Assassin: 4 females (out of 4)

-Diesel Ryder: 3 males, 1 female, and 1 unsexed (out of 5)

-Auto Blueberry: 1 male, 1 female, and 3 unsexed (out of 5)


AUTO ASSASSIN Summary:


Sort of disappointed (ironically enough) that I didn't get any Auto Assassin males, as they're really nice looking plants, and supposedly pretty strong and Sativa-leaning.

Anyway, I guess it's cool to have an abundance of females.

I might breed my Jack The Ripper male with one of the female Auto Assassins.

The crossing of two mostly Sativa strains, mixed in with the autoflowering genetics, could prove to be an interesting hybrid.


DIESEL RYDER Summary:


Three out of the five Diesel Ryders are male, which is kind of a bummer, but at least I have one really strong female to breed with.

There is one more unsexed Diesel Ryder that is growing in a bucket with two other auto blueberries, so I'm holding out hope that one unsexed Diesel Ryder is a female.

Maybe one of the two unsexed auto blueberries in that bucket will turn out to be male, and fertilize the Diesel Ryder if it turns out to be female.

A Diesel-Blueberry cross would be tight.


AUTO BLUEBERRY Summary:


One Auto Blueberry is definitely female, one is definitely male.

Two of the healthier Auto Blueberries remain unsexed, and one extreme runt that will probably not do anything, as it's only an inch or two tall...really pathetic looking.

It would really be a boon to have three Auto Blueberry females.

Lowlife's Automatic Blueberry is the one autoflowering strain that I absolutely wanted to succeed and do well. The more females, the more breeding opportunities and better selections.

Here are the videos.

The first video is of my male plot. The autoflowering strains are mixed in with some regular strains I have going (to keep things cleaner, organized, and out of the way), but you can clearly see the difference in the smaller auto strains, and the bigger regular strains.

Male Plot:

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Female Plot:


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this as well

dababydroman said:

this as well

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Thanks again man!

Sorry my camera isn't great...it's just some crappy Canon Sure-Shot 3.1 megapixal with digital-only zoom...and it's about 4 years old.

Next time I get out there, I'll take actual pictures, as these show up with a little better resolution than just seeing a low-quality video.

I'd like to get some shots of the males in bloom.

They should really be defined on the next trip out there.

I've been working on a breeding plan for the Auto strains, in relation to what I have to work with.

Here again are the auto-strains I have to work with:

-4 Auto Assassin Females
-1 Auto Blueberry Female
-1 Diesel Ryder Female

-2 Diesel Ryder Males
-1 Auto Blueberry Male


I have 2 Auto Blueberry and 1 Diesel Ryder that have yet to show their sex, so that could change the dynamics slightly.

The only way I'd breed with these remaining 3 unsexed is if they turn female. I wouldn't want to use male pollen from these 3 if any turn male, as it would be a slower flowering male and not useful to my breeding projects.

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I'll most likely do these crosses:

1.) Auto Blueberry Female #1 x Auto Blueberry Male #1
2.) Diesel Ryder Female #1 x Diesel Ryder Male #1 (on one set of branches)
3.) Diesel Ryder Female #1 x Diesel Ryder Male #2 (one another set of branches)
4.) Auto Assassin Female #1 x Diesel Ryder Male #1
5.) Auto Assassin Female #2 x Auto Blueberry

With Auto Assassin females #3 and #4, I'll breed them using two regular strains:

6.) Auto Assassin Female #3 x Jack The Ripper Male #1
7.) Auto Assassin Female #4 x Cataract Kush Male #1

Just read the whole thread and will subscribe for sure. Do you plan on burying the buckets or leave them as they are? Is your plot that secure that you can just leave all these buckets laying around? Anyways, great grow and am excited to see how your autos do outside.

DesertSativa said:

Just read the whole thread and will subscribe for sure. Do you plan on burying the buckets or leave them as they are? Is your plot that secure that you can just leave all these buckets laying around? Anyways, great grow and am excited to see how your autos do outside.

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I'll be moving the buckets around slightly as the plants get bushier and need more room with their lateral growth. But only a few feet, and I won't bury the buckets.

This isn't some wide open prairie that anyone would just be strolling along with their banjo, chewin' on some straw, and come upon these plots.

I won't give out details for obvious reasons, but I'll say this site is protected visually on all sides, with double-layers of visual obstructions. The terrain to get to this site is pretty difficult to navigate through unless you specifically wanted to come to my site.

It is kinda cool (I have deer netting to protect my sites) that every time I go out to my sites, I always hear deer scattering away. Every time. The funny thing is, there is absolutely no way people would be hunting near this location, again for reasons I can't get into.

Yeah I'm at the edge of my seat to see how these autoflowering strains do outdoors too.

I know they're primarily bred for indoor growing, but I'm pretty impressed so far with the Auto Assassin and Diesel Ryder...the Auto Blueberry not so much. There is just too much variance with the possibility of mutation with Lowlife's Auto Blueberry.

I really want that blueberry taste/smell though, and hope the one female and one male I have so far are able to successful create some seeds.

Thanks for reading through the thread...good things are ahead for sure!

Nice man, nice. I've been following. My "friend" has auto ak and la diva going at the moment, going to move outside as well. There will be a seed run as well. Keep on keeping on!

Sorry to double post, just wanted to say that he is set to be finished around the beginning of June.

koulajitong said:

Sorry to double post, just wanted to say that he is set to be finished around the beginning of June.

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Hey that's cool man. I've never done a spring grow/summer harvest before, so it's all a new adventure for me.

All I know is, I'm running out of weed from last years crop (less than an ounce left), and need to replenish my supplies soon.

I actually wanted to super-pollinate all my females (to get the most amount of seeds), but have decided to only do partial branch pollination's instead.

I'd love to get 100+ seeds from each female I pollinate, but I don't know if these plants will get big enough (or should I say produce enough female pistils) to get that many AND still produce a decent crop of unseeded weed.

Here's a video update of both Male and Female plots...plus an additional video of some new seed starts I put out.

The Auto strains are again mixed in with the regular strains in this video, so just fast-forward if you wanna focus on the Auto strains.

When I'm out at the plots, I should separate the two videos (Auto Strains/Non-Auto Strains), but I'm usually just in such a hurry to get the video and get out that I forget to separate the two.

I'll try and separate the two plant types in future videos...I know it's probably confusing to those who view these vids.


Male Plot


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Female Plot

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New Seed Starts:

-10 Mexican Sativa regular (Sensi Seeds)
-2 Dark Star regular (THSeeds)
-2 Heavy Duty Fruity regular (THSeeds)
-1 Burmese Kush feminized (THSeeds)
-1 S.A.G.E. feminized (THSeeds)
-1 Diesel feminized (Dinafem Seeds)
-1 White Widow feminized (Dinafem Seeds)
-1 Sour AK feminized (G13 Labs)

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AUTO BLUEBERRY:
The Auto Blueberry female (only one declared so far) is looking strong and will be a great breeding female. The male Auto Blueberry is looking healthy, but it's overall growth is really unappealing honestly. It's stretched horribly (not due to lack of light either), and just doesn't look as healthy as the other Autos.

Still have 3 Auto Blueberry that haven't shown their sex yet, although 1 of those is only an inch tall and probably won't make the final cut. It's just pathetic looking. So unimpressed with the unstablized nature of this strain (getting mutants, unpredictable sizes, etc).

On a final side note, one of the Auto Blueberry that has yet to declare sex is getting some noticeable trichome production on the main cola and it has a blueish hue to it...so that's kind of encouraging at least.

AUTO ASSASSIN:
The 4 Auto Assassin's all look great, although I have 1 that is noticeably larger than the other 3. I still haven't decided on their fate.

I was going to cross maybe a Jack The Ripper and/or Diesel Ryder male with one or two of the Auto Assassin's, but I might not. I'm gonna need some smoke before my Fall harvest is ready, and I'm just not sure of the overall smokeable yield of the other plants in this Spring grow.

My first goal is seeds, but I gots ta have my smoke too.

DIESEL RYDER:
I removed 2 male Diesel Ryder males (still have 1 remaining at the male plot), and recycled the soil mix in those buckets to use in the new germinated seeds I put out in milk/soda jugs.

The remaining Diesel Ryder male that I left is the strongest and fastest maturing of the 3 males I had, so it should work for what I want it for in breeding.

The 1 female Diesel Ryder I have is looking great too.

I have 1 more Diesel Ryder that hasn't declared its sex yet, so I'm praying like hell it's a female.

Well some interesting surprises and good signs of flower-development were observed on this last trip.

The Auto Assassin's are developing nice clusters of pistils, although on my tallest Auto Assassin, I saw exactly 2 pollen-sacks on the lower part of the main stem. I removed these two, and am hoping I don't see any more.

I was going to breed with this plant, but if it has a tendency or even a possibility of being a hermaphrodite, I can't take the chance. Any subsequent plants from a possible cross with this plant would very likely have a hermaphrodite gene embedded in it, and that's just a waste of time and effort to work with.

There is a short, but very stout and branchy Auto Assassin that I will definitely be breeding with.

The remaining 3 Auto Assassins will go unseeded (save a random pollination) so I can have some pure Sinsemilla. It won't be much, but hopefully it'll have some bang (which it should according to its pedigree).

The Diesel Ryder female I have is producing many female pistil clusters, although it does look sorta lanky. It was the only female (out of 5 successfully grown plants) that I have, as the one unsexed Diesel Ryder that I still had remaining turned out to be a very lanky male.
I still have the male Diesel Ryder back at the male plot, and intend on breeding it with the female Diesel.

My one earlier confirmed Auto Blueberry is coming along nicely, getting a little bushier/taller, and producing some decent stems.

I found out that my one runt Auto Blueberry (about 2-3 inches tall) is a female, with tiny little female pistil clusters on the top of the main cola. It's even slightly blue in the center of the cola already. It's a shame that this bluing trait had to occur on this little runt that I can't (rather choose not to) breed with.

I did confirm that another previously unsexed Auto Blueberry is also female, with a grand total of 3 Auto Blueberry females (2 if you don't count the 2-3 inch runt Auto Blueberry).

I forgot to take a pic of the Diesel Ryder female, but you can see her in the video that's below.

Plants look great. Keep the updates coming!