[Elevator Man]

I've decided to start a thread to document a new cross I've made, as it might be of interest to many people.

Folks may have noticed my posting about this mystery Jamaican plant I have for some time - check in my signature link for the main thread, and several other threads will throw up in a search. It's an unusual plant - presumably a hybrid - that my friend brought back from Jamaica as seed. I've gone over the story many times elsewhere so I won't again here, but the plant is exceptional, of that there is no doubt.

British Hempire, myself and the guy who got the seed had a little chat, and decided to name it Kentish Creme, after its location in Jamaica, and it's creamy taste - though that's not the only taste - it's a very versatile plant indeed.

Last year I decided to do a breeding experiment, using two distinctly different Flo males, a purple sativa-dominant plant, and a green indica-dominant. Whenever possible, I put some pollen on as many different strains as possible - Kentish Creme being one of them. For some reason, only the purple pollen took with the KC, and I got 18 seeds from a very small clone I used to breed with:





I've gereminated seven of the seeds recently, and have whittled down the F1 plants to four specimens, which are are about ten weeks old. Two are definite males, one is a definite female, and one is still undecided, presumed female. The plants all grew extremely symmetrically, and all have purple stems top to bottom with a minty/berry smell, fairly long but very mixed (between parents) leaf-shapes, and quite tight internode spacing. Here's two examples below:





The dark purple stems are definitely the Flo dominating, as can also be seen from the long stipules at the node. However, as these are F1s, I'm not too concerned about individual phenotypes at this stage.

I'm assuming for all intents and purposes that my Flo parent is 'true-breeding' - that may sound fatuous, but my tests so far, crossing with many strains, and incrossing with Flo females, have generally shown a stable and predictable outcome, so I'm expecting that its contribution will follow the Flo line, which is fine by me! The Kentish Creme however, did show many similarities to Flo when growing, particularly in branching and stem/bud formation, and I expect the F1s to be extremely vigorous and good-looking plants.

They grew so tall in my limited space that I've had to clone them all - four of each plant. These are all rooted and ready for potting, though I only need one of each for breeding. I've left the two male stumps in veg to better see how they develop, and put the two females into flower to get a better idea of times, structure, etc. They're very small, so I'll get no yield, but after four weeks or so I can then decide which male and female clones to use for breeding the F2s.

In the meantime, I just have a lot of pondering to do...

[Ulysses]

JLo- that's a sexy looking siren song!

A Jam x Flo should be a great smoke... What's it do to your head? Does it make you swivel your hips??? Hehehe...

I got the last pack of Original Flo held up in the SBay logjam-chemdog fever-flu thing. Primarily based on your pics and descriptions of the plants... Damn EMan, if I get one or two as good as yours, I'll be psyched! I'm having trouble making arrangements to keep the males... Gotta work that out...

[Elevator Man]

Well, she's a latin/caribbean beauty with some exotic Asian genes buried in there too, so she should certainly turn some heads. We'll have to see how little miss diva reacts, if she ever gets to hear about it (probably, if she smokes as much as I suspect). Though after the 'Tom Cruise' weed I've heard about on here, I should be careful, or it'll have to be renamed 'Jail-O'...

And good to hear you got some Flo at last...

Ah, great to see the J-Los are doing well, I love the KC cut a lot, smoking some now, very good stuff indeed, the buds look sugar coated and taste sweek yet rich, like milk chocolate, but like EM says, this plant has produced several different expressions, depending on who grew it. Some pics I snapped of my KC buds tonight:

[ThaiPhoon]

Nice, another creation from Elevator Man! Are you using the same Flo's from the Goldfinger cross? The Goldfinger was fantastic. JLo should be great as well.

Chok dee

[Elevator Man]

Yep, these two Flo males managed to touch a lot of ladies in their short lives! That was the purple male used again in the JLo:

[Ulysses]

Original Flo secured- even got those "fjällhöga freebies" I asked for- guess that was compensation for the wait... SBay doesn't disappoint, and I sweated it out for naught...

When you say Flo is true breeding, do you mean it's an IBL? Or are you just stating that there are a defined number of phenos? How many phenos do you find in Flo? How many phenos are you and BH getting with JLo?

Yeah, that's a funny joke with the TomCruze weed- you don't want to go bragging to your mates you've smoked tom cruize...hehehe

If 'smoked' is a euphemism for some sexual act, then no, I wouldn't want to say it, but if it were a euphemism for having blown a great gaping hole through his fat, scientologist head with a 12 bore, then yes, I would proclaim it loudly 'I smoked that mudda fudder TOM CRUISE!' lol

Although I haven't grown the Flo, I saw and smoked EM's and my take on it was that it has several phenos but all of them were equally lovely, all having a complex taste and high. I remember one green pheno was minty and I liked that one a lot, then there was a purple pheno that was dark, rich and earthy, in short, Flo is fantastic.

If the Goldfinger is anything to go by, that Flo male makes a good breeding tool indeed, the Goldfinger having a complex earthy rich taste reminiscent of Flo but with added dimension and spice from the Malawi.

Went to a poker game the other nigth and took some KC buds, folks were very impressed with the smell, taste and potency, some very stoned but haoppy faces round that poker table. The calculated 'dosing' of my opponents with KC worked a charm and I collected the night's pot, my tolerance beign far higher than theirs!

I'm really looking forward to seeign the J-los flower and I'm gonna have to go visit at the right time to sample the buds as out of all the quality genes EM's shown me recently, the Flo and KC were my two favourites, out of all the DJ short plants EM has grown of four strains, the minty Flo pheno was my favourite, the dark, rich purple Flo pheno my second favourite and a similar Grape krush pheno my third choice. The only smoke I preferred to the Flo was the KC, so to see the two of them blended into a new hybrid interests and excites me greatly!

COOL im in,and i know this thread will finish!!

Unlike alot of threads here that never finish?????

We have a good grower here hahahahaha.........

Hey BH what KC strain is that one,she is FUZZY man!!!
My Leda Uno's are HUGE and flowering has begun good now......
Hella lemony greasy taste and great day smokes!!

Go for it EM,you 2 are some good friends and busy too!

[Elevator Man]

Thanks Lou - though I'm working in considerably less space than you are right now! This should be a great cross though - all clones are rooted (in a week too - hybrid vigour or what?!) so hopefully I can select the F1 parents very soon!

Ulysses - I don't mean IBL in the usual sense no - just that the phenos I've crossed seemed to reproduce very predictably. The female Flo I've grown seeds from produced near-identical offspring in terms of smell, taste and high, and the males produced similar results when crossed with many other strains - purple sativa and green indica were very obviously present when crossed with strains I'm familiar with that didn't have those traits previously.

Whether this works down the line remains to be seen, but the results here look exactly like I was expecting. Just wish I'd got the green indica pollen to work too...:(