subcool
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This is the story if the largest single cola I have ever grown but there is so much more to the story than the bud we nick named Lance Armstrong. This journey actually goes back about 15 years ago when I had the idea to cross Jacks Cleaner with Blue Berry. I was intrigued by the idea of a sour berry strain with increased potency over just pure Blue Berry. The resulting cross JCB did not meet my high standards and I decided to discontinue that project. even though it did result in the famous cutting Batgirl. Over time I continued breeding with the Jacks Cleaner cutting and through trial and error eventually created the strain Jack the Ripper using Space Queen as the male. When I moved out west and came across the strain Purple Urkle with her grapey taste my thoughts drifted back to the sour berry cross and I thought Oh My Sour Grape! Since I do not believe in reversing the sex of a female plant in order to obtain pollen I took a different route. I used the Space Queen male outcross the Urkle creating a completely different strain everyone knows and Querkle. I actually created this strain so I could have genetic line to select and Urkle dominant male I am sure all the fans of Querkle will be surprised to hear this.
I first made a small batch of test seeds using a random male we found in the first test run or Querkle. This first attempt was tagged as Qleaner V-1. The initial findings were promising so we started 40 Querkle seeds and re started the male selection process from a much larger gene pool.
After working down from seven males we choose the one with the most dominant Urkle traits. That Querkle male was then crossed with the Urkle mother plant to create Deep Purple. The sole purpose of this pairing was so we could grow out the Deep Purple line to confirm the traits he would pass on. I confirmed the male did indeed pass on the desired traits of coloring as well as the grape flavor I was looking for. In fact the male turned out to be such a good breeding male that the test cross Deep Purple went on to be one of most sought after strains.
We then used the pollen from this male and our Jacks Cleaner female to create a new strain we called Qleaner V-2. Qleaner V-2 was grown out by TGA testers and the results were stellar. One skilled tester Bongorilla had such good results that his best Qleaner female made it into Skunk magazine as well as Big Book of Buds 4. The Photo credit was left off by Quick Trading on the first printing but they promised to fix it on the second printing.
While all the attention went to Bongorilla's amazing pictures I also grew out Qleaner but I never documented my results on paper and that is why I decided to re visit this strain in this article. I started 10 seeds and they all germinated without problems and they were transplanted into plain Roots brand soil. I enjoy growing from seed for a few reasons, one it's always a nice surprise to see what the seed will produce. The other is Hybrid vigor seeds simply grow faster and with more energy that clones do. Maybe this is why many old school growers grow from seed each year.
The plants took off and around 6 weeks of growth they started indicating sex. Over the next 10 days I was able to determine I had 5 females and 5 males a good ratio in anyone's grow book. I then transplanted the females into 5 gallon containers using my Super soil. Normally I grow my plants out in 7 gallon pots but with unknown seedlings I prefer to take up a bit less floor space in the bud room until I find the keeper girl. The plants went into bud when they reached 30" at around 60 days from the start of the seeds. The plants started stretching a few days after entering 12/12 lighting and continued to do so for about 3 weeks ending up at a height of 5 feet. The buds started forming fast by the fourth week of budding and this was when I started getting grape, lemon and berry smells.
I first made a small batch of test seeds using a random male we found in the first test run or Querkle. This first attempt was tagged as Qleaner V-1. The initial findings were promising so we started 40 Querkle seeds and re started the male selection process from a much larger gene pool.
After working down from seven males we choose the one with the most dominant Urkle traits. That Querkle male was then crossed with the Urkle mother plant to create Deep Purple. The sole purpose of this pairing was so we could grow out the Deep Purple line to confirm the traits he would pass on. I confirmed the male did indeed pass on the desired traits of coloring as well as the grape flavor I was looking for. In fact the male turned out to be such a good breeding male that the test cross Deep Purple went on to be one of most sought after strains.
We then used the pollen from this male and our Jacks Cleaner female to create a new strain we called Qleaner V-2. Qleaner V-2 was grown out by TGA testers and the results were stellar. One skilled tester Bongorilla had such good results that his best Qleaner female made it into Skunk magazine as well as Big Book of Buds 4. The Photo credit was left off by Quick Trading on the first printing but they promised to fix it on the second printing.
While all the attention went to Bongorilla's amazing pictures I also grew out Qleaner but I never documented my results on paper and that is why I decided to re visit this strain in this article. I started 10 seeds and they all germinated without problems and they were transplanted into plain Roots brand soil. I enjoy growing from seed for a few reasons, one it's always a nice surprise to see what the seed will produce. The other is Hybrid vigor seeds simply grow faster and with more energy that clones do. Maybe this is why many old school growers grow from seed each year.
The plants took off and around 6 weeks of growth they started indicating sex. Over the next 10 days I was able to determine I had 5 females and 5 males a good ratio in anyone's grow book. I then transplanted the females into 5 gallon containers using my Super soil. Normally I grow my plants out in 7 gallon pots but with unknown seedlings I prefer to take up a bit less floor space in the bud room until I find the keeper girl. The plants went into bud when they reached 30" at around 60 days from the start of the seeds. The plants started stretching a few days after entering 12/12 lighting and continued to do so for about 3 weeks ending up at a height of 5 feet. The buds started forming fast by the fourth week of budding and this was when I started getting grape, lemon and berry smells.
