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Because of it's genetic stability I prefer to call this a second generation blueberry rather than an F2. Parents were purchased from Marc Emery in the winter of 1996. He told me he purchased them from Sagarmatha of Holland. They were described as being "a mostly Indica plant of superior quality. This fast maturing girl produces large, crystallized buds with natural occurring blueish hues. The berry taste is unmistakable and very pleasurable on the palate." This is a bud for those enjoying quality without being knocked out.
Growers should expect some of the seedlings to start out twisted and variegated as this is a normal trait for this variety. Most seedlings out grow this as they mature. These select seeds are from both of my best two females and best male.
Flowering: 45 - 55 days
Height: 70-100 cm.
Yield indoors: details
Yield in greenhouse: unknown at this time
Suggested growing skill: skilled
Suggested Retail: $25 for 10 seeds
Is a very vigorous F1 hybrid of the pure romulan female with a select
blueberry male. The hybrid retained the large sticky and stinky buds of
the romulan. It gained stronger stems and fruity aroma and
taste from the blueberry. Colas should become larger and more frosty
than romulan buds seen in Aug. 98 High Times. This one is also very
easy to clone.
Flowering: 55 - 60 days
Height: 90-140 cm.
Yield indoors: details
Yield in greenhouse: unknown at this time
Suggested growing skill: beginner
Suggested Retail: $50 for 10 seeds
I have a small breeding room and then a larger production sinse
flowering room. What I usually do is start flowering in the production
room and then conduct pollination and seed set in the breeding room for
2 weeks. I then destroy the males and mist down the pregnant girls to kill
any lingering pollen. Next, I move the pregnant girls to the production
room to finish maturing the seeds. Well somehow the sinse crop got mildly
seeded. All I can figure is that the air pressures changed and pollen from
my veg and/or breeding room escaped into the production flower room. This
means that I cannot guarantee who pollenated who and therefore not guarantee
the outcome of the resulting seeds. What I can say is none of the seeds
were the result of hermies (1 minor exception) and that all the pollen
donors were present because I wanted to use them in breeding. This is with
the exception of the peruvian sativa which I was testing out for Heavan's
Stairway and I wasn't suposed to use in breeding (not mine to use).
The males who shed pollen during this period were:
blueberry (BCGA)
romberry (BCGA)
durban poison (dutch passion via Amsterdam cafe in Vancouver)
peruvian sativa (heavan's stairway)
Sweet Tooth (Spice of Life via Bongblaster)
Romulan Strawberry Blonde (Spice of Life via Bongblaster)
Princess 75 (MrSoul via friend on internet)**
** this was the minor hermie exception and wasn't a real hermie or a major pollen contributor. It's genes will only be found in a few romulan suprise seeds. It was the result of a challange that the princess line was not capable of sex reversal. I threw everything I had (GA, ozone, light, and drought stresses) at 4 seperate clones and finally one switched shedding a little viable pollen. As I'm the only one to document sex reversal in the princess/cinderella line I don't feel there is anything to worry about here.
Well as a result of all this I have a series of limited edition suprise seeds to offer. I expect much variation but all seeds were from excellent genetics so there should be many excellent plants to choose from. With each description I can only describe the mothers. These suprises would all be far better choices for beginning budget minded beginner growers than the above blueberry.
Available from:
Heavan's Stairway (Quebec, Canada)
Moes Seed Sales
(Victoria, BC)
Romulan Suprise - The same mom that was used to make romberry. A proven winner that produces a very high end stinky bud in 10 weeks. This is an original pure romulan that is true breeding. Therfore, I expect this batch of suprises to be the best of the lot to choose from if your looking for yield and potency at the expense of a little longer flower time. Suggested Retail: 10 for $25
Romberry suprise - Description for romberry is above. About half of these are from the production leader RBL-4 which is the heaviest yielder of more than 200 romberry seedlings flowered to date. For those who have yield as a primary concern, this should be the better choice of the suprises. Suggested Retail: 20 for $25
Sweet Tooth suprise - Well I was really impressed with these Spice of Life genetics. Unfortanately, because of the heavy seed set I wasn't able to fairly rate the buds against the other keepers in the garden and will have to wait until I'm finished a second crop curently under way. I do have the grapefruit mother clone from which sweet tooth (.75grapefruit) was derived and it is a proven winner that produces high end buds in about seven weeks. Grapefruit won last summer's BC mini cup, beating out romulan. From the looks of the sweet tooth buds, this should be the lowest yielder of the suprises but be amongst the more potent. Suggested Retail: 20 for $25
Romulan/Strawberry Blonde suprise - Well, sweet tooth impressed me but this bunch is by far the best seeds that I've ever purchased. They were vigourous, healthy, and more uniform than I expected considering the parentage. They were also fairly impressive yield wise, producing large heavily crystallized fruity smelling buds. From the shorter flowering time, heavy crystallization, and persoanl knowledge of Vancouver's romulan source, I suspect that the romulan grandparent was actually a romulan/white widow hybrid that flowered in eight weeks. Some very excellent genetics in this mix. Suggested Retail: 20 for $25
Durban Poison suprise - well this is a
tough one. In my low light garden, this plant produced tastey but unimpressive
medium potency buds. It also looks more like an indica than a sativa. However,
I handed out clones to others growing under more conventional lighting
(40-60 watts/ft) and they were very impressed with it overall. They figured
that the spicy flavour made it a natural christmas crop. Also, many outdoor
growers of this plant have also had only good things to say about it. So
if your growing under the big light or lots of watts, this may be an interesting
one to play with. Suggested Retail: 20 for $25
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