Hope you don't mind me posting a pic of my keeper SD ibl 06 grapefruit. I would give anything to still have her.
The Sour D from 06 or 10 release. I would hit the best Sour D with a grapefruit NYCD
To be clear, when I say "NYCD", I really mean it's the NYCD x SD that Dramamine made around '11.
The mother is Soma's NYCD from '03 and the father is REz's SD from '10.
The SDs I have, I got in '11 from Rez .. so I guess that's the '10 drop.
If I hit the SD with NYCDxSD, it will be SD female x (NYCDxSD) male.. Which I'm sure will be nice. I understand that dominant traits follow the father .. so.. I don't think that will be a bad cross.
What would be interesting is if we see co-dominant traits that show up.
I put the plants in a 12 hour light cycle on 9/9. It's 9/18, and I have identified the gender of all 6 at since yesterday (or before). 3 males, 3 females.
I had some problems earlier with chlorosis - I was either over-watering or some nutrient lock. I didn't really have the energy to figure it out so I re-potted the affected plants with new soil, allowed them to dry up a bit, and made sure my water/nutrient solution is around 6/6.5 and I think that cleared that up.
I'll take several cuttings from the girls and allow the males to develop pollen. Going to pollinate on week 4 (end of Sept). I think these are 70 day plants, so that gives me 6 weeks for the seeds to mature. I'm just going to pollinate some lower branches so I can get several dozen seeds. I'll do another run with the best mother so I'll make 100 or so seeds.
I"m using soil in 1 - 1.5 gallon pots, and air pots. The soil is old Pro-mix but I think it's still good. I'm going to co-plant clover to see if that improves the soil quality. Also using Mammoth P once a week, 1 ml/gallon. Ferts are Fox Farm once a week, and Cal Mag with Silicon once a week (1 tsp/gallon).
The room gets a little hot some days - high 80s, but I'm not seeing any plant stress so I think it's ok. It's getting cooler where I am so the heat issue may just go away.