How very cool. This is Ortega x ST#3 x Cinderella99. I had seven seeds that were quite old and was lucky and grateful that two germinated. More still that I got a male and female to make a seed grow.

This strain has traits I have never seen before. Both male and female showed sex before three weeks old. Those clones are cuttings from mom the day I identified her. I had female cuttings from a new strain from seed in 20 days. Is that amazing or have I just never heard of this happening before?



Here is the male the day I saw his balls. I could have ID'd him much earlier if I had been looking. His preflowers opened their pollen sacs at week five of veg and appeared to be sexually mature at that time

Caprichoso, it very well may be that you have a mom and dad which inherited the auto-flowering trait from the Cindy!
I personally last time round grew a C99 hybrid called BlueBlood (C99 x Blueberry, Bros. Grimm and DJ Short), planted 6 seeds, got 4 females and two males. Out of these one female and one male were autoflowering, showed preflowers at 18 days and just kept on flowering though they were only halfway through the veg stage at 18/6. They finished up at 31 days of 12/12. Made some seeds from them, gave some to a friend, and whaddya know?... the F2's inherited the autoflowering trait, which would have been peachy had my friend not decided he wanted to Bonsai a clone and keep her as a mom....he's having a hell of a time trying to keep her in veg , says she just goes on doin' her thing under fluoros at 24/0 .
Blue

[Californian]

Autoflowering trait? Is this a Ruderalis cross? Save the pollen, never know when you might want to breed.

The autoflowering trait is from the Cinderella 99, and please forgive my ignorance but I don't know the exact genetic makeup of C99, all I do know is that she has recessive autoflowering genes which sometimes are expressed. I was lucky enough, and so it seems Caprichoso also.

[I.M. Boggled]

Not all the info in the thread is scientifically correct...

https://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread/t-508463.html

well thanks I.M. Boggled, I will read it with interest and take it with a grain of salt , you are a wealth of resources and information, and just because I have not yet had the pleasure of making your acquaintance, I do take the time to read most of the precious information you make available to us here. Thank you from all of us!

Thansk for the replies, but damn am I a stoner or what? I completely forgot to put up the pollen collection part.

So I move these two along with three Sweet Cindy to the flower room. The male is just dropping pollen like a fool in a couple of days. The stretch has barely begun on the females, there are few pistils anywhere and no pistil clusters at all. I'm freaking thinking this thing is gonna drop it all before I can get a decent covering for even semi mature girls (I wanted to make a lot of seeds)

So I cut off the males biggest branches and stuck them in a cup of water as a form of stasis. I sat the cups on a freshly cleaned glass table. I clone this way and plants can last for quite some time just sitting there with no maintenance so I was hoping to collect his pollen and impregnate the girls manually if need be.



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After a day the results were impressive


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After two days


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After three days


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After four days I removed the plants abegan cleaning the unwanted crap out of the droppings


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Thats the pollen in the center, surrounded by approximately 10 times that amount in plain kitchen flour.


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The final product which is frozen in a container that has dessicant in the lid

[Hooked-On-Grown]

very cool Caprichoso

I am about to collect some pollen from several males myself.
Great thread and pics....

What is the flour for?? storage??

[JLP]

Nice photo demonstration man

Autoflower is most likely a result of the SWT#3.The Sweet Pink Grapefruit in SWT#3 is well known for this trait that pops up periodically.

JLP

[deZerTomB]

great way to collect pollen.

So simple I can't screw it up!!! I can't wait to try it.