Thule said:I can only offer my opinion, but IMO the rumour that lowryder was developed from finola is UTTER BULLSHIT.
I'm sorry to use such a harsh language, but I think it's important to cut the wings from rumours that have no basis in real life.
I'm not basing my opinion solely on guessing, I've been fooling around with finola genetics since 2004, ever since I got into growing. What makes me so sure about this is the fact that finolas autoflower acts differently to that of lowryders.
Finola flowers at the age of 30 to 40 days as opposed to 12-20 days of lowryder. Finolas flowering is not photoperiod neutral. You can induce flowering as early as 10days of age with 12/12 lighting. I have also tried crossing finola to lowryder based genetics in order to determine if it is infact the same genes resposible for the autoflowering and it really looks like they aren't the same. You may have 100% autoflowering in the first generation but in the next generation it can drop down to 85%
Finolas structure is also nothing like lowryders. They are big plants and can easily reach 2 meters if given the right environment. I have never seen a dwarf finola, and I've grown plenty and visited many finola farms here in Finland. Finding a high thc plant is also theoretically impossible because finola is a bd/bd type and only produces cbd plants with levels as low as 1% cbd. The bt allele doesn't just pop up if it never was there.
Finally let's also think about the seeds for a moment. Finola is bred for it's nutricious seeds. The genetics came from two russian sources, the Altai mountains in southern Siberia and the other one according to El Manito from Kirov region on the European side. These seeds have bee bred for human consumption and therefore have a relatively thin seed shell. They take less than 24 hours to sprout and I know this because I make hemp seed milk every single day. Infact they are so keen to sprout that you often find sprouted seeds in the buds late in the autumn. Now this is completely the opposite to those hard to germinate, thick shelled lowryder seeds that often need human help to get started.
Imo it's far more likely that lowryder actually descends from a ruderalis ancestor just like stated by Joint Doctor. Ruderalis seeds take longer to germinate than domestic seeds do and sprout unevenly as a surviving mechanism. We even know there was a Mexican Ruderalis. It was one of Nevilles attempts to create an outdoor strain in the 80's.
I could go on but I think I made my point here.
Yes.
Lowryder 2 is supposed to be considerably stronger but unfortunately I have no personal experience with it.
I already got 120 LR seeds