Guava Lava Pie Cake Cross

Hello! This is going to be a special grow for me, as it will be my first attempt at crossbreeding and creating my own feminized seeds. This female plant is a phenotype of a custom strain from a friend and breeder (LogiBearOK2.0 on instagram) which I had previously grown from seed last year and have been maintaining successive generations of clones. Flowering time is 10-11 weeks I will be using feminized pollen from a Wedding Cheesecake Fast Flower from 42FastBuds to create the cross. The reversed plant is a my own hand-picked pheno with a great flavor profile and overall plant structure. I also plan on using the selfie seeds produced by the WCFF to start an S1 pheno hunt. That won't happen for a while though, I want to refine this cross first.

Still lookin pretty going into the second week of flower. Early flowers are always fun to look at. The Wedding Cheesecake is showing developing male flowers now too, so all is going according to schedule. This is going to be an open air pollination but enclosed within a sealed tent and sealed room. (Carbon filter exhaust + Air purifier in external environment)

Well its been a smooth grow so far I suppose, though for my first breeding run its hard to tell if anything has gone wrong. I've kept the same feeding schedule with adjustments to the ratio of each as the flower stage progresses. Getting pretty excited with the number of seeds this girl is showing.

Nothing really new to report this week, she's moving right along. One of the more photogenic plants I have right now to be sure. Haven't changed feeding schedule or anything else really, doesn't seem like she needs anything but time to mature. Lots of seeds seem to be fattening up, can't wait to see how big these flowers get by the time its ready for the chop. I'm still thinking 2-3 weeks min left before harvest. When I've grown this pheno without pollination it can take 10 weeks to full maturity, but it seems like pollination may have sped it up slightly based on some of the ambering trichomes. (Not that there's many yet, only present on sugar leaf edges for the moment and max 5% even then)

Cinco de Mayo Update She's still lookin pretty. This pheno is really super easy to grow with even the most basic level of attention. Had a few temperature swings but she didn't mind at all. I removed all of the other plants in the tent this week, so she's by herself in a 2x4 with a single 100W led 9 inches above her top for a ppfd of ~800 similar to previous 320W led setup Doesn't look too much different than last week but there's a few more pronounced seeds and a couple of the visible ones are starting to mature into their final dark and striped patterns. No significant leaf fade yet as I'm used to seeing on this pheno upon maturity. Probably going to reduce the feed amount starting the end of this week and let the plant use up its remaining nutrients toward harvest. If you click on the pictures make sure you give it a couple seconds to finish loading. They are pretty large photos so at first they might look a little blurry until the complete image is downloaded.

Smooth sailing this week again. No significant changes to environment or feed/watering schedule. I reduced/omitted the nutrients again and after today will probably only use plain water. Lots of trichs are now starting to amber and I can see clearly matured seeds scattered throughout the buds at all levels on the plant. Looks like she's going to be a really strong producer. It also appears that pollination of this strain induces maturation a little faster, by a week or two compared to my non pollinated plants. That will be interesting to keep track of for future crosses with the GLPC if I reuse this strain particularly in autoflower crossing. I anticipate harvesting as early as mid next week. Photos are quite large so if you are on desktop and click them, make sure you zoom to 100% and let it load for a second or it might look blurry.