welp! Hey guys! im back! had a little run in with the law that forced me to take a bit of a hiatus and nearly cost me all of my years of work on Pinkie and Kaiju lines but I have successfully germinated seed from both strains.... albeit not from my last few generations. I was however able to pop seeds that I had kept in reserve from years ago that contain the same genetics (F4-5) and should be able to finish Pinkie within a year or 2 tops, so I can finally get her out to all my fellow auto growin bretheren!!!
as you can imagine cracking open 5 year old seeds creates a lot of issues... ones I have never experienced. So even tho I put down quite a few seeds and I saw them emerging.... most fizzled out early on.... at first I suspected fungus gnats but seedlings from fresh seeds that id grown along side were outpacing mine by far and had germination rates on 100-98% where my ancient stock was barely getting 1 out of 6 seedking to pop and actually grow ( most of them crack but stall out at the seedling stage and just die.
luckily I had hundreds of seeds and the lot that is most prolific is from 13 purple mothers with green leaves and 1 dad
so I should get good variation in this lot.
So far I have been able to get these 5 females to the beginning of flower
2 are already showing purple
1 is indica dominant in veg structure (A pheno)
and 1 is Sati Dom in veg all day (B pheno)
the 1 male I have is so far just green but extremely vigorous and has a small female growing in his pot. I would prefer to have a purple male but he may color up late as many pinkies do and he has all the other traits im after aside from color so he will still make an excellent breeder, especially because I know for a fact he is a purple carrier. hes under 6 hours of light a day and is doing very well
I will continue to post updates as they come. any questions i will be glad to answer.