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This is a story from The best of HIGH TIMES master grower's guide 2007.
It is mainly posted because skunkishybrid has a grow journal for space jill and he ask about this article. If you don't believe this info then take it up with Subcool at HIGH TIMES....
Recently, I decided to start some Space Queen seeds that I'd been stashing away for many years. Vic High originally created the Space Queen by crossing his Romulan and Cinderella 99. I was never a huge fan of Romula, though I liked the exotic flavor of Romberry. My goal was to find a new phenotype with excellent flavor and high among the offspring of his seeds.
My partner MzJill and I started the Space Queen to finally give this strain a run organically. We chose the best four males and the best four females. I'll catch some heat from some of the larger scale breeders for using so few plants to select from, but this was the only pack I had, and the genetics were all top notch.
The seedlings were labeled and photographed each week to record there progress. Resin began forming on the stalks and the undersides of leaves extremely early. By week three of the flowering stage, each female had taken on wonderful pineapple, lemon and mango fragrances.
We were looking for the recessive drug traits in our males, not the dominant hemp traits. Bud structure on a male is a good indicator of quality and, as you can see, our males had nice tight clusters. You can also see resin blobs on the empty male stamens. I've never previously seen this type of resin on a male plant.
The four female plants were labeled and described as follows:
PHENOTYPE A- Smallest overall, with a funky, semirotten smell.
PHENOTYPE B- Most resinous, nicknamed Frosty Queen.
PHENOTYPE c- Best internodal spacing and the largest dense buds. A candy sweet aroma.
PHENOTYPE D- Smelled like a sweet, cherry flavored jolly rancher candy.
Using or chosen male, we waited for pollen to release from the male flower pods and collected it. Then we gently applied it to the four flowering females in their third week of blooming. They quickly shifted from budding to forming seeds, and we harvested the seeds a few weeks later to begin our project.
The females we popped from the seeds grew fast, and as they entered the flowering period MzJill selected Phenotype C to be the best. Her feelings were based on the tight internodal spacing and the plants overall appearence. As they continued budding, phenotypr C still remained MzJill's pick of the four. Phenotype B was the smallest and appeared to have the most resin. We named it frosty queenbecause it was over the top with raised tricomes forming all the to the leaf edge and tip. This was or most photogenic plant. We named phenotype D jolly rancher. It was the strangest of the bunch: It exhibited a hint of cherry, as well as extremely red pistils that really stood out as the harvested colas dried. My personal favorite of our four space queen phenotypes was A. It was less fruity than B and C and smelled of slightly rotten fruit, a pungency mixed with citrus tones. This phenotype was a lower yielder but still worth more investigation.
MzJill was completely right about phenotype C. It became a tremendous plant with large, dripping colas that started "dreading" (creating foxtails) after day 50. Smelling a lot like cinderella 99, the plant had a sweet scent that reminded me of sour granny smith apples cooked down in vanilla. It had the highest yeild, with four massive heads that looked like showcase nugs. As phenotype C started curing, the buds took on a candy like aroma with more hints of sour apple. It produced tremendous lime green buds with vivid reddish-orange hairs, all accented with brilliant resin production. In the sunlight, the buds looked like sparkling diamond jewelry.
After a 30-day cure, the unique cherry smell of phenotype D had mostly faded. Though the buzz was extreme, it didn't measure up to the other three plants and was culled from the group. Phenotype B was to small to keep permanently, but it made for a great head stash and produced amazing cream coloered kif. I still like the flavor of phenotype A, but it grows like a vine and is a bit hard to manage, so I'll make a decision on this one in time. Phenotype C will be in our garden for a long time and is used as our P1 mom for our Space Queen F2 seed project, a.k.a. Space Jill.
As it stands now, MzJill has adopted phenotype C as her head stash of choice. I'm still a huge fan of phenotype A, but it's not getting any larger on the second run through the flowering room. It matures about seven days faster then phenotype C, which is good, but not the most important determining factor. Phenotype C is just an all around killer plant, yeilding large, dense buds encrusted with resin. It exhibits a very potent high with a smooth, candy flavored smoke. I'd definitely recommend giving this one a run. I'm not sure if theres any of Vic Highs original Space Queen still available, but we'll be releasing our Space Jill F2s sometime this year.
GEEZ THAT TOOK FOREVER.......
It is mainly posted because skunkishybrid has a grow journal for space jill and he ask about this article. If you don't believe this info then take it up with Subcool at HIGH TIMES....
Recently, I decided to start some Space Queen seeds that I'd been stashing away for many years. Vic High originally created the Space Queen by crossing his Romulan and Cinderella 99. I was never a huge fan of Romula, though I liked the exotic flavor of Romberry. My goal was to find a new phenotype with excellent flavor and high among the offspring of his seeds.
My partner MzJill and I started the Space Queen to finally give this strain a run organically. We chose the best four males and the best four females. I'll catch some heat from some of the larger scale breeders for using so few plants to select from, but this was the only pack I had, and the genetics were all top notch.
The seedlings were labeled and photographed each week to record there progress. Resin began forming on the stalks and the undersides of leaves extremely early. By week three of the flowering stage, each female had taken on wonderful pineapple, lemon and mango fragrances.
We were looking for the recessive drug traits in our males, not the dominant hemp traits. Bud structure on a male is a good indicator of quality and, as you can see, our males had nice tight clusters. You can also see resin blobs on the empty male stamens. I've never previously seen this type of resin on a male plant.
The four female plants were labeled and described as follows:
PHENOTYPE A- Smallest overall, with a funky, semirotten smell.
PHENOTYPE B- Most resinous, nicknamed Frosty Queen.
PHENOTYPE c- Best internodal spacing and the largest dense buds. A candy sweet aroma.
PHENOTYPE D- Smelled like a sweet, cherry flavored jolly rancher candy.
Using or chosen male, we waited for pollen to release from the male flower pods and collected it. Then we gently applied it to the four flowering females in their third week of blooming. They quickly shifted from budding to forming seeds, and we harvested the seeds a few weeks later to begin our project.
The females we popped from the seeds grew fast, and as they entered the flowering period MzJill selected Phenotype C to be the best. Her feelings were based on the tight internodal spacing and the plants overall appearence. As they continued budding, phenotypr C still remained MzJill's pick of the four. Phenotype B was the smallest and appeared to have the most resin. We named it frosty queenbecause it was over the top with raised tricomes forming all the to the leaf edge and tip. This was or most photogenic plant. We named phenotype D jolly rancher. It was the strangest of the bunch: It exhibited a hint of cherry, as well as extremely red pistils that really stood out as the harvested colas dried. My personal favorite of our four space queen phenotypes was A. It was less fruity than B and C and smelled of slightly rotten fruit, a pungency mixed with citrus tones. This phenotype was a lower yielder but still worth more investigation.
MzJill was completely right about phenotype C. It became a tremendous plant with large, dripping colas that started "dreading" (creating foxtails) after day 50. Smelling a lot like cinderella 99, the plant had a sweet scent that reminded me of sour granny smith apples cooked down in vanilla. It had the highest yeild, with four massive heads that looked like showcase nugs. As phenotype C started curing, the buds took on a candy like aroma with more hints of sour apple. It produced tremendous lime green buds with vivid reddish-orange hairs, all accented with brilliant resin production. In the sunlight, the buds looked like sparkling diamond jewelry.
After a 30-day cure, the unique cherry smell of phenotype D had mostly faded. Though the buzz was extreme, it didn't measure up to the other three plants and was culled from the group. Phenotype B was to small to keep permanently, but it made for a great head stash and produced amazing cream coloered kif. I still like the flavor of phenotype A, but it grows like a vine and is a bit hard to manage, so I'll make a decision on this one in time. Phenotype C will be in our garden for a long time and is used as our P1 mom for our Space Queen F2 seed project, a.k.a. Space Jill.
As it stands now, MzJill has adopted phenotype C as her head stash of choice. I'm still a huge fan of phenotype A, but it's not getting any larger on the second run through the flowering room. It matures about seven days faster then phenotype C, which is good, but not the most important determining factor. Phenotype C is just an all around killer plant, yeilding large, dense buds encrusted with resin. It exhibits a very potent high with a smooth, candy flavored smoke. I'd definitely recommend giving this one a run. I'm not sure if theres any of Vic Highs original Space Queen still available, but we'll be releasing our Space Jill F2s sometime this year.
GEEZ THAT TOOK FOREVER.......
