Spice’n a Bitch!

Great plant, easy on the water and grows short and squat. The terp profile is what really makes this strain shine. The blueberry fruit is so prevalent and would be a key trait to draw out in future generations of the cross. We’ll call it spiceberry for the sake of ease. Only hope that there comes an opportunity to give it a test run. All told, it’s been a fairly uneventful grow and they pretty much just did their thing until the finish. We’ve got a ton of pollen and a crap ton of seed all around. Final pics there to follow shortly along with the full background update. Background ***see spicy bitch harvest week for smoke report and harvest photos*** Fingers crossed that these Spicy Bitch regs provide at least one male so that we can back build some stock of it. In the event that does take place we’ve got a single clone of each strain from the previous pollen chuck to sit in the tent with them so they can make babies for the next few months. The whole point of the last year was to start making some foundational genetics for a third generational cross we could call our own. If you’ve been following along than you’ll know that it’s been anything but easy. Our previous pollen picks didn’t pan out at all so we’re back to the drawing board with a new option from ExoticSeeds. This’ll be a 10 plant run with 5 regs and 6 strains for pollination including the strain itself. We’re running in a 2x4 MarsHydro grow tent all powered by a Mars Sp6500. That’s a little more than 600w packed into half the recommended footprint😳. Why? you ask - because we like our buds big and overcompensatory😂. Really, I’m just of the mind that we can pack more light into this space than recommended and get much better results. The math doesn’t lie. At least not as long as I wasn’t high when using the calculator again….. Many thanks to @MarsHydroLED for the opportunity to test run the equipment👊. ***Tech update: the 600w of power in this small space has shown no major issues or over abundance. Quite the contrary actually - the light still has ample headroom to move up and for your typical short veg plant - the results and bud quality are impressive to say the least. The tent itself has proven both durable and easy to clean. It’s held up really well so far. I really can’t complain about Mars Hydro products. They haven’t shown any really significant down sides👍.*** In addition, we’ve also moved to a new nutrient system - Druid Nutrients out of the Netherlands. They don’t really have a presence on GD yet but you’ll be hearing about them very soon I’m sure. The beauty of this system is that it’s literally a 1 (one) component system for the entirety of the plants grow cycle. It really has changed the game in terms of ease of feeding and maintenance. It’s also very versatile and seems to provide everything needed across multiple different strains in the same ratios. Keep your eyes peeled for these folks. Pretty much a guarantee that they absolutely blow up once more people know about them👍👌😎. ***Full disclosure, we moved over to a more traditional maxi series nute by GHE for a large portion of this grow. This was a value decision to stretch the Druid nutes longer and keep ‘em in back for a full fem. Cycle.*** Strain Background Spicy Bitch: predominantly sativa, heavy yielder with a daytime kinda trip profile. It’s a cross of Queen Mother and a Pre-2000 AK47. We’ll pull what pollen we can and hope to have a female run out a larger supply of seed for the future. Many thanks to @Exoticseeds for the chance to give these beans a go👍👊. ***Harvest Update: This strain is so typical of the stuff exotic seems to put out. Seems every single one of their plants always runs a light show of trichs and late cycle colouring. This plant was certainly no different. She’s sativa dominant and yields are decent with longer internodal spacing. Takes to typical nute strengths and shows great signs of resilience against WPM. Pollination Strains: Holy Surfer S1 - this is one of the focal points for this cycle. A fellow growmie was kind enough to ship over some S1 genetics I took an interest in. The only ask back was that if I did cross it to send a few his way for testing👍. Shoutout and cheers to @blendmedmedman. Hoping to have something back to ya in short order. For full details on this alluring hybrid option check my buddies link at seedfinder - https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Holy_Surfer/Smiling_Tiger/ ***Harvest Update: She grew short and squat with a singular defining cola and a large amount of leaves. Formed one massive bud with impressive girth suggesting a potential winner to try out on her own👍. She was also quite resistant to WPM. An injection of sativa genes could be a winning combination for this hybrid🤞.*** Northern Lights - this came from a particularly interesting batch of seeds that have shown a very dependable variegation trait. It’s a compact and squat plant requiring very little maintenance. Typical for the strain really. It’s been chosen as an option to potentially mellow out the high , shorten the stature of the resulting hybrid and inject it with some of that mellow indica effect. ***Harvest update: Any thoughts we had about mellowing out the cross with this strain we’re wishful. For a classic NL, this particular plant packs a massive sledgehammer of a high. Very surprising and no idea how it’s going to translate in the F1. We’re hoping to get a run of this in soon🤞.**** Boogie Nights - total shot in the dark. Still haven’t even tried the strain myself yet but it was available at the right time and interesting enough to make a salad with. Big thanks to AMS who’ve been nothing short of an excellent seedbank to collaborate with. Expect similar growth characteristics to that of the Northern Lights. Better resilience however. ***Harvest update: This one’s a sativa leaning strain in terms of effect. A great day time, head high option that won’t leave you sleepy👍. She’s got some colour to the buds in this pheno and should compliment the spicy bitch rather well. I don’t expect a major change in effect when blending the genetics but if we can get a little more resilience into the strain via the spicy bitch pollen then it’ll be all the better.*** Blueberry - this particular clone is from extremely strong stock. Spliff seeds broke the mold with this strain. She’s lower maintenance than the NL, more resilient than anything else we’ve got on the menu and the terp. Profile on this girl is out of this world. If we can bring any of these qualities to the cross, then it could be magic👌. ***Harvest update: No real change in our expectations post-harvest. Should be a great blend of indica and sativa characteristics for the effects and what we really want in terms of grow features are the benefits of the blueberry terp profile mixed with some of the colouring we’ve found in the spicy bitch. Both are resilient and resistive so this should be a very solid and reliable foundation for future generations.*** White Widow - garrghh, I just can’t get away from this particular plant. Again, still haven’t even tested the buds yet and all I can say is that the growth characteristics are extremely vigorous and desirable. This plant is one of 3 unicorns that I have yet to tame due to a combo of extremely bad luck and circumstance. ***Harvest update: This is our max hybrid vigour cross if you will. This WW strain is super strong and grows like wild fire. The effects are predictable and strong like that of any widow strain and when mixed with the sativa leaning spicy bitch we expect very good things. Both are resilient, both have tons of trich production and both appear to yield generously. Between this and the BB cross, we expect these two to be the best bets for a final new hybrid to drill down on👍. All told, it’s still the same story: a VERY experimental breeding project designed to shotgun a broad swath of genetics against a reliable and dependable Breeder who’s put out proven fire 🔥🤟😎👍. ***Update*** All told, the whole runs been a resounding success. It wasn’t pretty and the nute sched. Shoulda been cutoff much earlier than it was but ultimately - no impact and we have a massive final seed harvest. It’d be nice to say that they’re all getting a try asap but that’s just not the case. If we were to make any of these a reliable final product we’d be in for at least another couple years of dedicated pollen chucking and back crossing. We’ll see where the shedule takes us and u never really know for sure🤷. Regardless, it’s nice to have a ton of new potential fire to give a go to👍👌. Many thanks to everyone who tagged along and bothered to comment and discuss. Keep it growing, keep it green👊