Introducing Wild Fire

All I know about this strain is this:

Last year while working on a wildfire in a widerness area I stumbled on a few sprouts coming up in a remote area from a past grow. Over the course of the next 3 weeks I was able to locate 21 starts. There was enough left over water line parts to string a line to where I relocated all the starts into old holes. Didn't look to be a Mex cartel site, but who knows.

Left them to let Mother Nature do her thing. This ended up in an orgy with 7 males having their way with the females. Left to mature and then harvested some for the seeds.

Popped 200 this year to select from. Chose 8 females to go with due to vigor, internode spacing and leaf structure.

There are 2 different phenos that appeared, one that shoots out incredible colored pistils and one that has the more traditionary white pistils. Both are packing on the trichomes and probably have another 2-3 weeks to finish.

Down sides so far:

1) I was hoping they would finish mid to end Sept instead of mid to end Oct

2) Wanted shorter plants instead of 10-12 foot monsters

Up sides so far:

1) Will be big yielders

2) Have incredible trichome production in end of cycle

3) Still working on what the hell they smell like, but it's good

Taste and high test will have to wait awhile.

Some pics to look at:

1) some of the plants

2) close as I can get to the fire colored pistils pheno

3) another attempt at 2

4) best shot of close up to the white pistil pheno

Hope you enjoy and input is always appreciated


BLT

wow, thats an awesome story. those red hairs are incredible. how did you pick up the seedlings? i bet they were some awesome sativa genetics! great job man

Oh Shit!! Seed banks has hired CSI to look for you. Hold out for an indoor toilet!!

Damn, MyFavoriteSandwich, those pistils look like what I'm finding on my one Conquistador girl. I think good thoughts.

awesome story, great shots, good buds!

Oh.. in my opinion, BLT, you need to stop growing your plants so huge.

Seamaiden, I'm trying, but it just isn't working

norcalkronic, Thanks!

South Texas,

Orange Shovel CAGrower, thanks! The sprouts were from around the area of the old grow site. Looks to be a hybrid with maybe 60% sativa/40% indica. Could be higher on the sativa side with the small thin leaves.

BLT

When I lived in northern Illinois my brother and I used to find enormous schwag plants on a regular basis, in California you guys have got wild dank acclimating itself to the local climate and stabilizing itself through pollination, awesome, love those pink pistols, Wildfire, did you preserve some seeds? great variety, looks wonderful.

Yes, I collected a couple thousand to play with.

Now it's either try to backcross it and see if it's gonna be possible to stabilize it as an IBL or out cross it. Will spend the time with this one and try to come up with a stabilized IBL.

Next orgy should show the most variations in genotype.



Thanks,
BLT

Hey BLT - LOVE those purple pistils. Those plants are going to be scary huge when they are ready to chop! Please keep posting pics! Nice recon too - CDF firefighters might not get paid enough but you got some nice benefits there!

wow!! those are gorgeous!
please post harvest pics =)

joebuck said:

Hey BLT - LOVE those purple pistils. Those plants are going to be scary huge when they are ready to chop! Please keep posting pics! Nice recon too - CDF firefighters might not get paid enough but you got some nice benefits there!

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Thanks! There's fringe benefits for sure

peacemane420 said:

wow!! those are gorgeous!
please post harvest pics =)

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Thanks. I'll will.


Still packing on trichromes and one of the shorter 8 footers is about done. Maybe tomorrow it'll come down. I'll try to get some pics before the chop.

BLT

nice man! =) ill be watchin lol

thats a fantastic story. stories and articles like this is one of the reason's i got hooked on RIU. as of lately i've been getting bored with RIU because of the usual, "how long til my plants done", and "what do i need to grow" threads that are started. but this is a great thread to post and i'm glad you did.

i've be keeping an eye on this for sure and i hope you keep this strain alive.

Heres is a method that i have been thinking about lately that i think in theory can stabilize a strain in way less generations:

first clone all your original veging females at least 4 times each. Remove them from your grow. Label each clone to the mother it came from.

flower the original plants from seed and separate the females. Grow them into nice big beautiful plants. just make sure to keep them labeled.

you now know what each veging clone will turn out to be. get rid of the clones from the females that you dont particularly like. keep and label the good ones.

Your males will also be nice and big. They too will have different phenotypes. I dont have much experience with males but i know that you will be able to see various desireable traits. harvest the good males the same way you would females. label and store the male nugs the same as well. toss the bad males.

You now have control over which plants to cross. for each good female cross only the best males. a strong stable strain, that is reliable and will always produce is only a generation or two away at this point.


... what do you guys think? is it worth it? are there better ways?

kingding2385,

Thanks! This looks to be a keeper and well worth some time spent on it.

norcalkronic,

Interesting theory. Not sure if there are shortcuts to stabilizing a strain. Backcrossing, cubing, etc take a few generations and it doesn't take much to send you back to the drawing board. I'm thinking on the lines of trying to go IBL with this one so I don't have to introduce any new genetics that I'd have to sort through.


Update:

OK, so one came down to make room for some kind of shelter for the Vietnamese Black. I was thinking it was around 8', my mistake. The aroma while trimming had a piney, almost Xmas tree smell. It was the white pistil pheno and was sticky. Lost 2 trimmers due to scissor hash after 2 hits. Only testing done so far until it dries, then cures.

A couple pics. The one pheno still looks to be more than a week out

BLT

oh wow that beautiful!
aw and you dogs are gorgeous... what breed are they??

Nice dogs, BLT, blue tick hounds? They look like a good hunting breed.

The pistils are PU-URTEE. I've got a Conquistador that's showing this pheno, on just ONE girl. Two of them smell like slightly spoiled cantaloupe or fruit, I actually dig the smell a lot. Scissor hash... hhmm.. And, I've already forgotten what IBL stands for.

Thanks to both of you!

Interesting that in the last couple years I've noticed alot more variance in pistil color than previous. Glad you have one going Seamaiden and it will be interesting to see if you notice a difference in aroma/high. Kinda wondering if it'll only be color variance or what.

The dogs are Catahoula Leopards. The one jumping on me is Bubba, other one is Bones. Bones brings back just that, bones, drop horns, etc no matter where I take him. Bubba got his name due to his weaning on Bubba Kush. He still goes around triming any buds in his reach. Only chews on the leaves luckily.

Seamaiden, IBL is for In Bred Line

BLT