I would like to talk about a plant in the photo bed. This is from a white widow auto that I selfed this spring. I harvested the seeds on the middle of may and then planted them hoping that when they were ready they would sprout and go for it. When I planted a new photo crop in that bed on sept. 4, 2 of the autos came up. One could not compete with the fast growing photos and was stunted. The other one though has fought for and won herself a place in the sun. This against photos growing like crazy. More than that she took their full strenth ferts and loved it.She was broken over and just stood back up and has been fertilized and making seeds. I sprayed the third node only 4 times and she is now making pollen sacs there. Needsless to say she features big in my breeding plans for next year. What I can not help but think is if I had grew these 100 autos inside, I would have never i.d.ed her as 1 of 100 and may even have not bred her at all if I was choosing for some other trait. My point is all breeding of an outside auto MUST be done outside and that is not what it looks like was done. Just taking full ferts is a huge first step to increase vitality and therefor yeilds and potency. I have to beleive that her offspring have a better chance of being hardy than others and a few years of selecting for this trait will create a real outside auto. Any thoughts?
