Ravenplume
Well-Known Member
2024-07-14 - 14:00
Alright, instead of continuing the Unexpected Additions thread, I am now going to open a perpetual journal to cover all Mutts, which is plants where there is significant doubt as to the strain. I am thinking the baseline being half the lineage unknown, with the exception of lites, where is pure is bred with anything other than one of its own (which means pollinated by a mutt). I really need to write an essay or something on my methods and protocols and vocabulary soon one of these days...
So starting with Mutt history; my first three mutts were all fully and truly unknowns, each one did get grown out, but only 2 had any sort of harvest.
Mutt:00, which for now I will call LBPTCS:0 (Little Brother's Pre Turn of The Century Seed) is what started my journey in growing and gardening in general. It was a seed saved from some unknown strain he and his girlfriend (now his wife) smoked back in the late 90s. He could not remember what the strain was, or even if they knew it back in the day, so that became my very first Mutt.
Due to being a total noob at this, I really screwed up and even neglected it down in the basement grow room too much, to where I just mostly forgot about it and left it for dead. Come Spring or Summer the next year (2016), we were remembered finally, and pulled the remains from the grow room. The little bugger had actually flowered and made buds during that period, about 1/10 ounce, which gave enough for a couple 5 puff huffs from the little toker. and it did give a buzz. So I went ahead and retroactively dubbed that one Necro:2016.
After that, I started another seed, LBPTCS:1, from the same batch Dave handed over to me in 2015. That became Mutt:01. Due to some unexpected late Spring freezes, she went hermie on me down in the grow room, and was discarded. That was Mutt:01, which even though it was never harvested or pollen collected, is known retroactively as Hermie:2017. I do recall having a few more seeds from that batch that I tried out, but they fizzled out after a while for one reason or another (mostly my own derpiness and inexperience), but do not have any surviving records of any of them, and thus won't be adding them to this list.
Mutt:02 was an "opportunity seed" from 2017 found in some weed given me by my neighbor, who moved out end of 2022. Like with the PTC seeds, there were a small few, but only one makes the list here, since the others did not survive long and I can't remember them clearly enough. Anyway, I call this mutt NCMT:0 (Neighbor Cam Mutt). It grew big and beautiful after going in the cage June 2018, and grew out to make its buds. Unfortunately, we made the mistake of trusting weather reports and panicked, harvesting way too early when it looked like there were a few too many early freezes on the way. She produced no seeds (so not even self pollinated, unless I missed a seed or two during processing), and the bud was adequate, but still total weak sauce. I called that Early Bird:2018. I actually still have a small baggie of the bud, mostly ground up now; which I occasionally hit for some additional variety; and it does seem to have become a little better after 6 years. I have that stuff now labeled as Hot Dog Meat.
Those were the initial mutts that at least helped me get my feet wet.. And all three were assigned the pet project name of Feyleaf. That name is now restricted to whatever the Primary (Subject:00) for my Feyleaf strain.
I had one mutt last year, designated Mutt:03 - Guttersnipe:07 / 2022. It was found among the sunflowers off the west end of my porch.
No sign of any there this year... There were two equally likely candidates for what the seeds were, Feyleaf or Birthday Cake Lite, since that was what I had processed in that area 2022. But I figured it could have also been a long dormant Wildling:00 from 2019 or most anything else brought in by bird or squirrel, thus it qualifies as mutt, plus guttersnipe, as it was growing wild. In fact, all mutts further shown in this initial post are all also guttersnipes.
Before she got too big and attention drawing, we went ahead and transplanted her to the still unclaimed space in the cage out back. If I recall correctly, she had no drama queen period either, and she grew up to be pollinated by the Birthday Cake Lite boy that was on the back porch (also knocked up the two Bubblegums on the porch, as well as the Bitter Sweet Pie, Feyleaf, and its own Birthday Cake Lite sister in the cage).
Her bud was also quite good too, 1.6 ounces, and 4 ounces of what I call Pixie Dust, aka the trim. Out of the bud from this one already, as it only took one jar to hold it all. Now the seeds from that are my Wildling:01-2023 plants which are slated to be noble bred together for a new full name and claim. But that is its own journal (which will finally get its update after Purple Ghost Candy and Wildling:00-2019.
Now, this year, the Mutts have been exceptionally prolific, with the first two being discovered out back within minutes of each other.
First to come along is Mutt:04 - Guttersnipe:08 / 2023, found in one of the strawberry trays out on the back deck. I am keeping her in the tray permanently, since she seems quite happy and content there. Her pet project name is Strawberry Surprise.
And here she is 3 1/2 weeks later...
And now today, 2 days shy of another 4 weeks onward...
And moments after we spotted her, we noticed this little lovely next to the house, happily nestled amongst a patch of wild Garden Stars of Bethlehem.
Behold! Mutt:05 / Guttersnipe:09 / 2023, nicknamed Bethany. And 3 1/2 weeks later...
Growing up happily in her own pot next to Elmily, the Siberian Elm that was found growing between the layers of chicken wire against the cannabis cage.
And as with Strawberry Surprise, 2 days short of 4 weeks after the above...
And today...
And due to the 10 picture limit, I must declare...
To Be Continued, with as many of the remaining Mutts as I can fit in. Perhaps I can even get them all in a single post. But time for a little break now anyway for other things.
Alright, instead of continuing the Unexpected Additions thread, I am now going to open a perpetual journal to cover all Mutts, which is plants where there is significant doubt as to the strain. I am thinking the baseline being half the lineage unknown, with the exception of lites, where is pure is bred with anything other than one of its own (which means pollinated by a mutt). I really need to write an essay or something on my methods and protocols and vocabulary soon one of these days...
So starting with Mutt history; my first three mutts were all fully and truly unknowns, each one did get grown out, but only 2 had any sort of harvest.
Mutt:00, which for now I will call LBPTCS:0 (Little Brother's Pre Turn of The Century Seed) is what started my journey in growing and gardening in general. It was a seed saved from some unknown strain he and his girlfriend (now his wife) smoked back in the late 90s. He could not remember what the strain was, or even if they knew it back in the day, so that became my very first Mutt.
Due to being a total noob at this, I really screwed up and even neglected it down in the basement grow room too much, to where I just mostly forgot about it and left it for dead. Come Spring or Summer the next year (2016), we were remembered finally, and pulled the remains from the grow room. The little bugger had actually flowered and made buds during that period, about 1/10 ounce, which gave enough for a couple 5 puff huffs from the little toker. and it did give a buzz. So I went ahead and retroactively dubbed that one Necro:2016.
After that, I started another seed, LBPTCS:1, from the same batch Dave handed over to me in 2015. That became Mutt:01. Due to some unexpected late Spring freezes, she went hermie on me down in the grow room, and was discarded. That was Mutt:01, which even though it was never harvested or pollen collected, is known retroactively as Hermie:2017. I do recall having a few more seeds from that batch that I tried out, but they fizzled out after a while for one reason or another (mostly my own derpiness and inexperience), but do not have any surviving records of any of them, and thus won't be adding them to this list.
Mutt:02 was an "opportunity seed" from 2017 found in some weed given me by my neighbor, who moved out end of 2022. Like with the PTC seeds, there were a small few, but only one makes the list here, since the others did not survive long and I can't remember them clearly enough. Anyway, I call this mutt NCMT:0 (Neighbor Cam Mutt). It grew big and beautiful after going in the cage June 2018, and grew out to make its buds. Unfortunately, we made the mistake of trusting weather reports and panicked, harvesting way too early when it looked like there were a few too many early freezes on the way. She produced no seeds (so not even self pollinated, unless I missed a seed or two during processing), and the bud was adequate, but still total weak sauce. I called that Early Bird:2018. I actually still have a small baggie of the bud, mostly ground up now; which I occasionally hit for some additional variety; and it does seem to have become a little better after 6 years. I have that stuff now labeled as Hot Dog Meat.
Those were the initial mutts that at least helped me get my feet wet.. And all three were assigned the pet project name of Feyleaf. That name is now restricted to whatever the Primary (Subject:00) for my Feyleaf strain.
I had one mutt last year, designated Mutt:03 - Guttersnipe:07 / 2022. It was found among the sunflowers off the west end of my porch.
No sign of any there this year... There were two equally likely candidates for what the seeds were, Feyleaf or Birthday Cake Lite, since that was what I had processed in that area 2022. But I figured it could have also been a long dormant Wildling:00 from 2019 or most anything else brought in by bird or squirrel, thus it qualifies as mutt, plus guttersnipe, as it was growing wild. In fact, all mutts further shown in this initial post are all also guttersnipes.
Before she got too big and attention drawing, we went ahead and transplanted her to the still unclaimed space in the cage out back. If I recall correctly, she had no drama queen period either, and she grew up to be pollinated by the Birthday Cake Lite boy that was on the back porch (also knocked up the two Bubblegums on the porch, as well as the Bitter Sweet Pie, Feyleaf, and its own Birthday Cake Lite sister in the cage).
Her bud was also quite good too, 1.6 ounces, and 4 ounces of what I call Pixie Dust, aka the trim. Out of the bud from this one already, as it only took one jar to hold it all. Now the seeds from that are my Wildling:01-2023 plants which are slated to be noble bred together for a new full name and claim. But that is its own journal (which will finally get its update after Purple Ghost Candy and Wildling:00-2019.
Now, this year, the Mutts have been exceptionally prolific, with the first two being discovered out back within minutes of each other.
First to come along is Mutt:04 - Guttersnipe:08 / 2023, found in one of the strawberry trays out on the back deck. I am keeping her in the tray permanently, since she seems quite happy and content there. Her pet project name is Strawberry Surprise.
And here she is 3 1/2 weeks later...
And now today, 2 days shy of another 4 weeks onward...
And moments after we spotted her, we noticed this little lovely next to the house, happily nestled amongst a patch of wild Garden Stars of Bethlehem.
Behold! Mutt:05 / Guttersnipe:09 / 2023, nicknamed Bethany. And 3 1/2 weeks later...
Growing up happily in her own pot next to Elmily, the Siberian Elm that was found growing between the layers of chicken wire against the cannabis cage.
And as with Strawberry Surprise, 2 days short of 4 weeks after the above...
And today...
And due to the 10 picture limit, I must declare...
To Be Continued, with as many of the remaining Mutts as I can fit in. Perhaps I can even get them all in a single post. But time for a little break now anyway for other things.
