F1 Purp Valley Ice x SSH

Week 2 on 11/12
I increased light by 30min for week 2 of flower.
Everything is looking good. Trichome production on all three plants is looking a little weak. We will see how things develop.

The F1 plant that I moved into the living room has been pollinated by the Durban Poison. I dont plan to do anything with the seeds.

The terps on the flower are mostly cedar resin with hints of citrus. Looks like the F1 inherited SSH flower terps, but the structure and color of the Valley Ice. Pretty sweet hybrid. To bad its unstable. The good thing that has come from this small test run is that I know exactly what phenos im looking for.

The next seed run should be more promising. I think that crossing a Valley Ice male with a Silver Haze female will help produce better offspring. From that F1 lot, I can select a vigorous male to cross with my F3 mother. I think it will speed up the process of introducing vigor. The SSH seedlings appear to be lacking vigor, probably from generations of inbreeding and poor selection.

I planted 12 F4 seeds that come from the purple mother. Im going to cross a purple male with SSH to make some F1 seeds.
I also tossed a clone of the F3 mother into the flower tent.

I tossed the F1 plant #1 back into the tent. I cant shake the feeling that this girl has it in her to finish properly, now that she has been pollinated by the Durban Poison male. Maybe she will relax a bit and wont produce anymore male flowers. I cut of the small branch that had two male flowers on it. The rest of the plant is developing normal. The trichome development is amazing. I also see some faint purple in flowers.

I took another cutting from her. I want to test my theory and see if the clone throws male flowers. Regardless, im taking a other breeder's advice, and will pollinate her with the F1 male ive kept. I will test the F2 seeds and see if I can find a stable version of plant #1.

Plant #2 (below) is showing some beautiful sativa flowers. There is some faint purple in there. Flower terps are cedar resin. I have a healthy clone of this plant. I will also use her to produce F2 seeds. Its good to know that she is stable. Im hoping she finishes strong, and doesn’t throw any bananas. By the looks of it, I think she might need 10-12 weeks to finish. Im struggling to keep her happy. Those 1 gallon pots are probably annoying the heck out of her. LOL

Week 3 on 11.5/12.5
I increased light by 30 min.

Everything is looking decent. Flowers are starting to show more character.

Plant #1 - Stable and slowly trudging along. She has dropped a few of the lower fan leaves. I tried giving her some blood meal to see if it helps. Considering that she is sensitive to N , I dont know what is a proper dose to keep her happy. :laughing: I think she might be dropping the lower fan leaves because they are not getting adequate light. Ive read that smart plants will do this indoors.

Plant #3 - Displaying Valley Ice dominance. Flowers smell sweet and will be pretty dense. Seems to be lacking trichome production. I will not be keeping this plant, but I still want too see how she finishes.



Plant #2 - She threw 2 male flowers earlier in flower. I cut off the small herm branch and let her get pollinated by Durban Poison. Seeds are starting to swell. Trichome production is beautiful. Terps are cedar resin. I love everything about this plant. I need to hunt for a stable version of this one.


I tossed a clone of the F3 purple VI mother. She will be pollinated with the F1 VI x SSH male. It will technically be a BX1. Im hopping for the progeny to be a little more vigorous and robust.

Also in the tent, a Durban Poison fully pollinated. Seed repro for another thread.


Two F1 Brandywine x Valley Ice clones. My keeper cut. They are going to be pollinated with an F4 VI and DP. This is a side project for a different thread.


Last but not least, I tossed a small Malawi clone in there. I will try to pollinate it with the F1 VI x SSH male. Not sure if the timing will work on this one. LOL!


Thats all for now.

Well this is an interesting surprise. One of the F1 plants that I took out of the tent, because I spotted two male flowers on it, has done something ive never seen before. The male flowers never developed. They dried out and just fell off today.

This is the plant that was the most sensitive to N. Im going to let her finish her natural cycle in my living room. I have massive windows that get direct sunlight pretty much all day.


Also, im curious if that odd male flower phenomenon would have happened to plant #2 ?

Have any of you ever seen something like this happen? Male flowers on a female plant that never develop and just fall off?

Week 4 on 12/12
I increased light by 30min

All the plants are looking good. I top dressed half a teaspoon of blood meal and fish bone meal. They are drinking 1.5-2 cups of water a day. The temps have consistently stayed around 88f. Today I turned off one of the lights because the temps were in the mid 90s. They dont seem bothered by it, but I dont want to risk drying the soil out and have them wilt overnight.Plant #2 remains very attractive. This plant has proven to be quite robust and vigorous. I see the Silver Haze dominance in the structure of the flowers. The purple is faint and I dont think it will darken like the Valley Ice mother.
Im unsure if I will test the seeds. I wasn’t really planning to pollinate this plant with Durban Poison. I did it on a whim, because I was convinced that this plant was going to herm. It has proven to be stable, and I see no signs of male flowers. Im planning to use this plant as an outcross for the Valley Ice.The F4 VI male I selected is displaying some of the most beautiful traits I’ve seen on the VI strain. It is a sativa leaning plant, and I have a strong feeling that this male (if stable) will produce amazing progeny with plant #2. I am waiting for the F4 male cutting to root.

Plant #1 is really unique. Its looking more and more like a pure sativa. It is slow growing but the overall flower structure is quite beautiful. This plant is starting to remind me of a Cantaloupe Haze that I grew back in 2011. My gut tells me that this plant is going to produce some amazing smoke.

Im still trying to figure out how to keep her happy. She is definitely a light feeder, but I can tell that she is needing something. Maybe more Potassium. I won’t be messing around with her schedule, but I will be experimenting with the soil mix on the next run of clones of this plant.This is plant #3. She definitely inherited more of the MTF kushy flower structure. Terps are grape candy. The purple is faint and most likely wont darken. Trichome production is decent. Nothing special about this plant. Labeled “Generic”. I will smoke her and that will be the end of that. Last but not least, im throwing in a few pictures of the crop that is in the greenhouse. Im pretty sure the purple male I selected to make the F4 Valley Ice had strong sativa genetics. One of the plants is closing in on 9ft. I didnt use up all the space like last year, but I should still end up with a decent haul.

Cheers

Week 5 on 12/12

Everything is coasting. They are drinking less water. The flowers are starting to swell.


Plant #1
Seems I overfed her with the last dose of blood meal. Small bute burn. She is still trudging along and is actually quite healthy. The flowers have lost that unusual fermented fruit smell and it smells mostly like cedar resin and pine. The buds on the lower section seem to be more purple for some reason.


Plant #2
She is a week behind in flower because I took her out of the tent for a week. She is strong and healthy. I successfully propagated a cutting and am vegging it. Im pretty sure that I want to run some clones of this plant in the next cycle.


Plant #3
Kushy and fruity. This plant surprisingly hasnt given me any issues. She has been pretty low maintenance and isn’t drinking much water. Must have a small root system. Its a small plant compared to the other two.



Clone of Purple Valley Ice mother #2
Week 2 of flower. Trichomes and color are already showing. This plant is really low maintenance.


Thats all for now. Cheers

Following along. Plants are looking really nice!

Week 6 on 12/12

Things are looking good. The aroma on everything is wonderful. Ive had my tent open the last couple of days because the temps were in the 90s. Its hot.
The nute burn on plant #1 got a little worse. Crazy sensitive plant. Shes starting to slow down. Only drinking half a cup of water a day.
Plant #2 is trudging along. She is drinking 1.5 cups of water every day. Massive root system. The faint purple hue on the bracts is starting to darken
Plant #3 also suffered a minor nute burn. She is also slowing down. Only drinking half a cup of water every other day.
Clone of Valley Ice. Week 3 on 12/12
Ive decided to run a full tray (72 seeds) of the F4 Purple Valley Ice. The plant produced so many runts. Its going to be quite the hunt to find some vigorous plants. Its crazy to see how a plant with many recessive genes will produce progeny of mostly runts, regardless of what vigorous male I cross it with.