if you want something done right...

i guess you got to do it yourself

way back at the end of 2009 i had ordered some seeds, lowryder #2 and some others, here's the blog post about it:
http://smokefrogg-growjournal.blogspot.com/2009/12/lowryder-2-columbian-gold-random.html

the plan was to take half of the seeds for myself, half for a caregiver

the caregiver was going to pollenate, and make a bunch of lowryder #2 seeds that would later be used for breeding stock experimentation and several small urban guerilla grows

the other day i visited the caregiver, "oh i have seeds for you, the lowryder seeds!"

"hooray! finally!" i thought

"here they are, there's one set that is true afghani x lowryder #2, and another that is mystery afghani x lowryder #2!" she tells me

"ooooooh....i see.......did you cross the male lowryder #2 back with a female lowryder #2, remember, like the plan, the whole reason i bought these seeds and gave them to you in the first place?" i say as i begin to slowly *facepalm*

they reply, "this will be better! the afghani is so big and giant, crossed with the lowryder #2 it's going to be perfect!!"

i then begin to attempt to explain how this is going to be a lot of work now to work with the genetics and get 100% reliable auto flowering out of it, i go on to explain how only a percentage will most likely autoflower, i will then need to pick the ones out that do and cross them back with each other, likely a few times over, in order to really get that autoflower trait to be consistent again, just as it was persistent in the pure lowryder #2 that i originally gave them. eyes begin to glaze over with the older caregiver friend, she is awesome and i love her, but she isn't getting what i'm saying, comprehension and attention is lacking sometimes in this one, she is nearing her 60's and has been there done that over and over again, i forget that it takes a lot more for something to truly sink in with her if it's on a technical level at all.

all of that aside, clearly stating, "we need pure lowryder #2 seeds. cross a male lowryder #2 with a female lowryder #2 and let me have a portion of the seeds" seemed clear enough to me, i am frustrated but have to forgive her. i will see what comes out of these afghani x lowryder #2 seeds, but i fear it is too late now for my urban guerilla growing plans with a good stockpile of pure lowryder #2 genetics. i am going to fall back to plan b now, which is placing hardened clones of non autoflowering genetics out late in the season so that they don't get too large. the lowryder #2 attempts will now have to wait another year at this point, i will try again, i will do this myself. i need to construct a space to make it happen, a space separate from my normal flowering cabinet, we don't want to accidentally seed all my flowering little babies!