THE PATH OF THE DRAGON

[Mossy]

Hard question @Mossy The one on the left looks more traditional Indica Leaf shape, the one on the right for range of colour.
But in picking only one, I'd have to go for the one on the left

Me too... ..the ultra indy really attracts my eye..I want to eat them....so for me that might be your first Hint .. brain says ultra Indy..

Information received...second hand from me says Afghan/kush..gives you a range of options to start on.....

 

[Mossy]

@Entombed ...my large pots would not really fit in a tent....but I do the same with 20 ltr/5 gallon pots....20 LTRs...20 seeds..to hopefully mature 10 females... ..


BTW..quick count up...saying 30 per large pot...10 per 5 gallon pot...says probably 140 females there...and I'll have seen and killed the same amount of males.

And Ive got 4 grows a year...so easy to see how I can multiply my test grows/pheno hunts by using multiple pots.... ...

 

[Mossy]

While I'm distracted watching the Blacks...look at the stalk of that one on the left showing all that Red under leaf colour... ...

Look at the small lime leafed girl...the Only lime leaf ... standing proud in the pot...and look at her bud colour...or..the little metalic Pink sitting below her.. she's Special too..... addictive huh...?....I made that colour palette...

 

[Mossy]

Original JEM contained a Black leafed pheno.
Infrequent.
Coal black.
JEM had distinct yellow leaves when she went over..
The Black started from the centre of the leaf..out.
Sometimes leaving a yellow rim around it.
The black yellow mix on the leaf gave a metallic copper sheen.

At ALF #3 Deep Chunk photoperiod was added...Deep Chunk up to then ..all the photos I saw..and the pollen donation were White.

Something in this cross magnified the Black leaf trait out.....(I'll come back to that point later.)..and I was as Surprised as anyone else to see my first Black Auto.

One of the other breeder over at ICmag at the time...was gifted the same DC genetics...and he got the blackest photoperiod I'd seen...so..hedging a guess it was the DC prompting it......


The first Clue I got was...I thought the middle of my leaf was showing a deficiency..it was looking light green in the middles..but it was the black colour...coming in from the tips of the leaves... moving towards the centre.

The ALF#4 Black Dragon black is what I call botanical black..think roses..tulips..the deepest purple is classed as black.

So definition of the black leafed trait up to ALF4 is very easy to define.

Coal black leaf from the middle out..under cover metallic copper. JEM dominant.

Deep purple black..moving in from the outside of the leaf in..Black Dragon dominant.

Simple ...huh...?..

 

[Mossy]

This is the photo I kept to remind me of what I wanted out of Bobby's Widow at the time. Black bud..with the distinct white trics...

I must admit...I can't remember what Full Duplex added to his Bobbys after he got them.. ...but someone will...


You can see how the colour starts on the outside of the leaf...and moves in towards the middle.

You should also notice...that is the coal black trait...not the purple.

When I look at that...I see the red in it..I need no more to know Which black I'm looking for there......


Must admit,after getting over moving it over to full black coverage...by successively breeding Only the girls that Blacked first...

The real Beauty is the one on the left...and it sets my breeder tic off trying to get the perfect blend of black edge..still green centres..and having it Stop there....Not go over fully black..

 

[Mossy]

(I'll come back to that point later.)..

Right..the Black Leaf trait is a Kush dominant FAULT.

Kush dominants have a hair trigger for a phos deficiency...as soon as their soil pH drops by 0.5 to 1 ph they starts blacking up.

My winter temps drops the pH in my pots...and that is why they all flush up leaf colour in my winter season...
(Bud colour is not cold dependent)

So...what do you notice here...?..

The all blacks tend to be Smaller....first...they came from Original JEM ..a 14 inch 8 week finish original Auto...plus...she is growing phos deficient...sooooo... small..but Stunning......less depth of leaf colour coverage...less deficient..taller...


All about Options huh..?...