Ravenplume
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Starting a little journal dealing with 2 half breed strains as part of my Voodoo Botany and Noobs Helping Noobs projects that I am slowly trying to get off the ground. In the process, I am also developing a silly little experience and leveling system for growing (and that can and will extend past just cannabis, of course, though will keep it confined to Weed for this site.
To kick off my Voodoo Botany and Noobs Helping Noobs projects, I am going to do a cannabis grow journal featuring two half breed strains, aka Lites. By the end of this journal, if you are engaging in the experience and leveling system I am developing for this hobby, you should be able to claim Level 2 as a grower for 2 different strains, with at least 2 bonafide name and claims of your own. And if you are leveling both a Sativa and an Indica (ruderalis will come on the scene in later journals), you should be able to claim Level 1 in cannabis in general, as my specifications I am working on require at least 1 Sativa and 1 Indica brought to L:1 specifications, plus a third of any primary subclass (sativa, indica, ruderalis, or hybrid) I am decreeing autoflower strains a subclass as well, but we will call them a secondary subclass and will come into play at more advanced levels. Since this journal will entail actually growing and breeding, it will cover at least 2, possibly 3 growing seasons (unless I manage to have some success on indoor bucket grows, then perhaps a slightly shorter time frame.) Our subjects are Bitter Sweet Pie Lite and Bubblegum Lite.
I started these yesterday, 2024-01-31 around 11:00 in the morning with 4 of each seed (have them sharing their germinating napkins with some bell peppers that it is time to start). No sprouts yet, of course, but should see results in a couple days, I would expect.
They are also half siblings, their pure Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum mother plants having been pollinated by the same Birthday Cake Lite boy, which came from a pure Birthday Cake that was pollinated by one of my own Wildling-00:2019 boys, which itself came from a Tardis Lite girl and Sour Banana Sherbert Lite boy, opportunity seeds found in purchased bags of Tardis and Sour Banana Sherbert respectively back in 2018.
This journal's ultimate objective is to re-create and document the procedures and processes I used to create my first Wildling seeds, followed by my first actual name and claim; which happened with the 2023 harvest (and a couple others on the way come next harvest). Since the seeds I started with were Lites, meaning simply a known half breed, that is where I will be starting this journal. My first short term objective is to get one of each seed grown out to what I call Level:0 specifications; with a healthy looking crown and at least two nodes, aka 2 levels of fan leaves, like this specimen of Bitter Sweet Pie Lite...
At that point, your plant should be on the road to survival, and can even be sexed. In fact, come 22:00 tonight (2024-02-01) I am going to start it on its first 14 hours of dark, which has become my standard for forcing flowering, and get it sexed. If the above ends up being a girl, it will get promoted to S:00 and actually become the primary for the Bitter Sweet Pie Lite main grow. If it ends up being a boy, then it gets tagged for the breeding part of the project. There is also a small chance that one of the 4 I started yesterday (2024-01-31 / 11:10) could end up being the primary, if that S:03 ends up being a boy. Likewise, one of the 4 Bubblegum Lites just started could also conceivably become the BG Lite primary. That, by the way, is the second objective for this journal, a full (and hopefully unseeded) grow of one Bitter Sweet Pie Lite and one Bubblegum Lite
The third objective is propagation and breeding. And in fact, if this goes according to plan, We should have not 1, but 2 brand spanking new Wildlings; BSPLT(f)+BGLT(m) and BGLT(f)+BSPLT(m), which should each be only 1/4 of each named strain (aka Bubblegum and Bitter Sweet Pie). And once we have created the seeds and smoked the bud from the 2 lites, and then get the new seeds grown to L:0 specifications, we can actually claim Level 1 on both Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum.
At this point, we should be wrapping up the first season and starting post season work, including starting the entire process over with at least 3, if not 4 each of the two new Wildling seeds. And if I can manage this properly, a fourth objective could conceivably be achieved before the start of the next season; and that is breeding sibling seeds from the Wildlings together to make a pure strain, aka a name and claim. And if I don't manage to achieve this in post season, then it will be a goal for next season. And at that point, we can claim Level 2 on both Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum
But we are not done yet. Once we have our G:00 seeds, there will be a fifth objective of making feminized seeds from a couple G:00 plants, as well as breeding a pair of each to G:01. That will be the sixth objective. And then I think I will ultimately go ahead and do one last major objective before calling it good on this journal, and that will be breeding a pair of BSP Lite siblings back to a pure as well as a pair of BG Lites. By then, I should have suitable names for them, since I do not think it would be accurate to just call them Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum, due to fully half of their lineages not being BSP or BG. I am going to call that the seventh objective, but it could happen at nearly any point in the grow.
Once they have sprouted and are ready to go into dirt, the first of each will be put in a Jiffy Pot and immediately put on the 14/10 Dark/Light cycle for the 33 Days thing (allegedly they can be sexed within 33 days or so if kept on a dark/light schedule that is typically for flowering. Second of each will also get a Jiffy Pot, but will be grown under normal vegetative lighting. Third of each gets a Pringles (or as I call them, unless they are Pringles; Not A Pringles Canisters) to grow up in. And the final of each will likely get a small Dollar Tree planter like the one that is about to get sexed is in.
Bitter Sweet Pie Lite and Bubblegum Lite Basics
Here are the core stats on the two strains we are dealing with in this journal.
Name: Bitter Sweet Pie Lite
Subclass: Sativa Dominant
Mother Plant: Bitter Sweet Pie
Mother Plant SC: Sativa
Father Plant: Birthday Cake Lite
Father Plant SC: Hybrid Indica/Sativa - 50/50
Name: Bubblegum Lite
Subclass: Indica Dominant
Mother Plant: Bubblegum
Mother Plant SC: Indica
Father Plant: Birthday Cake Lite
Father Plant SC: Hybrid Indica/Sativa - 50/50
I do not have any other vitals available on these, and really can't afford to have any samples sent away for analysis at this time.
To kick off my Voodoo Botany and Noobs Helping Noobs projects, I am going to do a cannabis grow journal featuring two half breed strains, aka Lites. By the end of this journal, if you are engaging in the experience and leveling system I am developing for this hobby, you should be able to claim Level 2 as a grower for 2 different strains, with at least 2 bonafide name and claims of your own. And if you are leveling both a Sativa and an Indica (ruderalis will come on the scene in later journals), you should be able to claim Level 1 in cannabis in general, as my specifications I am working on require at least 1 Sativa and 1 Indica brought to L:1 specifications, plus a third of any primary subclass (sativa, indica, ruderalis, or hybrid) I am decreeing autoflower strains a subclass as well, but we will call them a secondary subclass and will come into play at more advanced levels. Since this journal will entail actually growing and breeding, it will cover at least 2, possibly 3 growing seasons (unless I manage to have some success on indoor bucket grows, then perhaps a slightly shorter time frame.) Our subjects are Bitter Sweet Pie Lite and Bubblegum Lite.
I started these yesterday, 2024-01-31 around 11:00 in the morning with 4 of each seed (have them sharing their germinating napkins with some bell peppers that it is time to start). No sprouts yet, of course, but should see results in a couple days, I would expect.
They are also half siblings, their pure Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum mother plants having been pollinated by the same Birthday Cake Lite boy, which came from a pure Birthday Cake that was pollinated by one of my own Wildling-00:2019 boys, which itself came from a Tardis Lite girl and Sour Banana Sherbert Lite boy, opportunity seeds found in purchased bags of Tardis and Sour Banana Sherbert respectively back in 2018.
This journal's ultimate objective is to re-create and document the procedures and processes I used to create my first Wildling seeds, followed by my first actual name and claim; which happened with the 2023 harvest (and a couple others on the way come next harvest). Since the seeds I started with were Lites, meaning simply a known half breed, that is where I will be starting this journal. My first short term objective is to get one of each seed grown out to what I call Level:0 specifications; with a healthy looking crown and at least two nodes, aka 2 levels of fan leaves, like this specimen of Bitter Sweet Pie Lite...
At that point, your plant should be on the road to survival, and can even be sexed. In fact, come 22:00 tonight (2024-02-01) I am going to start it on its first 14 hours of dark, which has become my standard for forcing flowering, and get it sexed. If the above ends up being a girl, it will get promoted to S:00 and actually become the primary for the Bitter Sweet Pie Lite main grow. If it ends up being a boy, then it gets tagged for the breeding part of the project. There is also a small chance that one of the 4 I started yesterday (2024-01-31 / 11:10) could end up being the primary, if that S:03 ends up being a boy. Likewise, one of the 4 Bubblegum Lites just started could also conceivably become the BG Lite primary. That, by the way, is the second objective for this journal, a full (and hopefully unseeded) grow of one Bitter Sweet Pie Lite and one Bubblegum Lite
The third objective is propagation and breeding. And in fact, if this goes according to plan, We should have not 1, but 2 brand spanking new Wildlings; BSPLT(f)+BGLT(m) and BGLT(f)+BSPLT(m), which should each be only 1/4 of each named strain (aka Bubblegum and Bitter Sweet Pie). And once we have created the seeds and smoked the bud from the 2 lites, and then get the new seeds grown to L:0 specifications, we can actually claim Level 1 on both Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum.
At this point, we should be wrapping up the first season and starting post season work, including starting the entire process over with at least 3, if not 4 each of the two new Wildling seeds. And if I can manage this properly, a fourth objective could conceivably be achieved before the start of the next season; and that is breeding sibling seeds from the Wildlings together to make a pure strain, aka a name and claim. And if I don't manage to achieve this in post season, then it will be a goal for next season. And at that point, we can claim Level 2 on both Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum
But we are not done yet. Once we have our G:00 seeds, there will be a fifth objective of making feminized seeds from a couple G:00 plants, as well as breeding a pair of each to G:01. That will be the sixth objective. And then I think I will ultimately go ahead and do one last major objective before calling it good on this journal, and that will be breeding a pair of BSP Lite siblings back to a pure as well as a pair of BG Lites. By then, I should have suitable names for them, since I do not think it would be accurate to just call them Bitter Sweet Pie and Bubblegum, due to fully half of their lineages not being BSP or BG. I am going to call that the seventh objective, but it could happen at nearly any point in the grow.
Once they have sprouted and are ready to go into dirt, the first of each will be put in a Jiffy Pot and immediately put on the 14/10 Dark/Light cycle for the 33 Days thing (allegedly they can be sexed within 33 days or so if kept on a dark/light schedule that is typically for flowering. Second of each will also get a Jiffy Pot, but will be grown under normal vegetative lighting. Third of each gets a Pringles (or as I call them, unless they are Pringles; Not A Pringles Canisters) to grow up in. And the final of each will likely get a small Dollar Tree planter like the one that is about to get sexed is in.
Bitter Sweet Pie Lite and Bubblegum Lite Basics
Here are the core stats on the two strains we are dealing with in this journal.
Name: Bitter Sweet Pie Lite
Subclass: Sativa Dominant
Mother Plant: Bitter Sweet Pie
Mother Plant SC: Sativa
Father Plant: Birthday Cake Lite
Father Plant SC: Hybrid Indica/Sativa - 50/50
Name: Bubblegum Lite
Subclass: Indica Dominant
Mother Plant: Bubblegum
Mother Plant SC: Indica
Father Plant: Birthday Cake Lite
Father Plant SC: Hybrid Indica/Sativa - 50/50
I do not have any other vitals available on these, and really can't afford to have any samples sent away for analysis at this time.
Have you ever had your peppers cross breed? I don't know how that all works, however last year I planted mammoth jalapenos, green bell peppers and plabano peppers relatively close together. Their stocks became one main stock and all the fruit shared certain characteristics of the other peppers. Such as The bells were spicy hot. 
For that project though, the peppers will be grown together in planters like this one...I call them pepper pots since that was what most were used for last year.
