autoflowering strain...what is it?

[curious101]

I'm using some new seed called early girl this year which is about 90% indica, will this have an autoflowering mechanism since the strain was bread for early harvests

curious101 Reviewed by curious101 on 08-03-2006. autoflowering strain...what is it? I'm using some new seed called early girl this year which is about 90% indica, will this have an autoflowering mechanism since the strain was bread for early harvests Rating: 5

[delta9thc06]

No the only auto flowering plants are in the lowryder family.

[Tom Swierzbinski]

If you want it autoflowering, you can cross it with a lowryder male/female (depending on how yours turns out). The resulting seeds will be an F1 HYBRID. Its not possible to say how much of the autoflowering trait will be carried over, but expect it to be around 25% or so. By planting the Early Girl x Lowryder, you can then cross that with another lowryder, resulting in an increase in autoflowering. This seed will now be a Early Girl x Lowryder x Lowryder. You dont want to do this more than two or three times though, as genetic abnormalities may occour or other undesirable traits, like reduced potency, harvest etc.

[pinkchick]

Early Girl was bred specifically for outdoor growing in cooler temperatures, i.e. Holland. Although it's mostly indica, I believe it grows quite a lot - and I would definitely not use it indoors.

[LIP]

No the only auto flowering plants are in the lowryder family.

Dont give advice if you dont know what your talking about. EVER.

Auto flowering means the plant flowers when its mature enough, not on the light schedule.

The auto flowering part is called Ruderalis.

Lowryder is just one of MANY strains that uses ruderalis.

The lowryder gets it from the Ruderalis skunk genes that its made from.

They are generally quicker and easier to grow.

[420mory]

Working on several LR crosses myself at the moment,

I've got Blue Mystic, PPP, Red Hair all drying out full of F1 crosses with a big fat male LR (also got Masterlow x LR just started)

To get LR crosses Auto Flowering here are two ways to go about it, The first is to back cross select (female) plants from a F1 cross with a (male) P1 parent (LR), this should yield all, if not mainly AF seeds, this will give a a cross that is 75% LR and 25% other, WW x LR x LR.

The other way is to grow out the F1's, select the best male and female plants to cross for the F2 generation and do so, the resulting seeds will yield aproxamatley 25% Auto Flowering seeds, now by growing out out crossing any two AF plants from the F2 generation, All the resulting seeds will Auto Flower. the strain will be 50% LR 50% other.

[slowthestone]

And eventually....

MJ will grow like watermelon.

One big juicy bud growing right out of the ground!

mmmmmmmm

[Tom Swierzbinski]

Just one more thing to add... if you order, for instance, Masterlow seeds and you have one that doesnt autoflower... stick it under yer lamp on 12/12 for a week, then switch it back to 18/6. This SHOULD induce the autoflowering trait, and it will continue flowering under 18/6, or whatever your lighting schedule is set to.

[LIP]

Good point Tom

[orangeman]

Any marijuana species with Cannabis Ruderalis should be a auto-flowering place..like Lowryder for example.