Bob's Auto's
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Hi to all 
My name is Bob and like the rest of my avatar's name suggests I'm in to growing Auto's. I know...I know, auto's aren't real weed, but I would like to prove you guys otherwise.
I've been growing for a couple of years now. Starting out with feminized photo's, which didn't work inside my greenhouse as where I'm at, there's quite some light pollution from a nearby factory. After that debacle I started reading up on how to grow weed in such environments and came upon auto's...And never looked back.
I've grown multiple cultivars ranging from US, UK and Dutch based seedhouses/breeders with varying success and since I'm a cheapskate, looked for a way to lighten the monetary load on my wallet by means of STS, in actual fact creating my first S1/F1 seeds. Yeah, I know...nothing to be proud of, but then I'm not playing with the genetics in order to sell these as my work, but rather to learn from the experience while not breaking the bank.
Fast forward a couple of years later and I'm still at it making my own seeds, but by now I got my hands on some regular auto genetics in the form of Coal Miner's Daughter from Gnome genetics (formerly know as Mandalorian). This opened up a whole new world and omitted the use of the STS for me.
As I progressed more and more into the world of breeding, if you might call it that, I learned how some breeders turned a photo into an auto, but to get that auto gene in the gene pool of said cultivar some serious work has to be done...
This is where I'm at now...Looking for photo genetics, which 'I' like and turn them auto so I can grow them inside the greenhouse over summer...
By now, I've been granted a "small" space inside the house to install the smallest of growing tent my money could afford, which enables me to grow weed the entire year unlike when I was growing inside the greenhouse...And still I manage to find myself without weed at the moment, but that's another can of worms...
This tent put me in the opportunity to separate my males from the females, but will also put me in the opportunity to grow some photo's and play with their genetics.
Rewind back to the mid nineties and Bob's about 16 years old. On one of my first trips to Holland (a school trip of all!!) I got to know my favorite weed of all times....White Widow, which became a staple in my younger experimentation years. About thirty years later I took another (camping)trip to Holland with my family and ended up in coffeeshop Catweazel...After asking the guy behind the counter for "good" weed I got a baggie of what do you think? Yup, White Widow...Thirty+ years might have past, but the taste, smell and high I experienced brought me back to that first encounter...
So, looking where I'm at now I started researching the history of White Widow and where I could find an original source of this wonderful cultivar. I even called back to the people at Catweazel to ask if they could help me source a cut from the White Widow, but this was only replied with a lot of laughter on the other side of the phone...hehe...So my search continued and I ended up on MNS's auction site among others...And my luck couldn't get any better, because an auction for the Black Widow was nearly ending...I stayed up the whole night as I never partook on an auction before, refreshing every five minutes or so. Long story short, I won the auction for the Black Widow and a couple of hours before that even won the auction for a pack of Dreamtime, which I found out is a kind of mystery seedmix. For the moment these seeds will go inside my seed collection and I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Black Widow seeds so I can continue on my breeding journey.
To be quite honest, I've also ordered said cultivar from several other sources, which according to the fuzzy history also lay claim to these genetics, as I'm planning to do a blind test.
I don't care about all the politics that surrounds this origin story, I just want to find the best possible Widow and use it to make the best possible Auto Widow for my own enjoyment.
My missus, who doesn't use canna at all, will be numbering and anonymizing the seed samples so even I can't be influenced by the fact that I'm sponsored by Dutch Passion, might think that Ingemar is the 'One' or that @shantibaba did take the original parents with him in his exodus from GHS.
I'll be posting about this entire endeavor on AFN as this is my breeding ground, but will also be posting it here out of respect for all the hard work the old timers have done to provide me and the rest of the world with this fine example of Dutch ingenuity.
Regards,
Bob
My name is Bob and like the rest of my avatar's name suggests I'm in to growing Auto's. I know...I know, auto's aren't real weed, but I would like to prove you guys otherwise.
I've been growing for a couple of years now. Starting out with feminized photo's, which didn't work inside my greenhouse as where I'm at, there's quite some light pollution from a nearby factory. After that debacle I started reading up on how to grow weed in such environments and came upon auto's...And never looked back.
I've grown multiple cultivars ranging from US, UK and Dutch based seedhouses/breeders with varying success and since I'm a cheapskate, looked for a way to lighten the monetary load on my wallet by means of STS, in actual fact creating my first S1/F1 seeds. Yeah, I know...nothing to be proud of, but then I'm not playing with the genetics in order to sell these as my work, but rather to learn from the experience while not breaking the bank.
Fast forward a couple of years later and I'm still at it making my own seeds, but by now I got my hands on some regular auto genetics in the form of Coal Miner's Daughter from Gnome genetics (formerly know as Mandalorian). This opened up a whole new world and omitted the use of the STS for me.
As I progressed more and more into the world of breeding, if you might call it that, I learned how some breeders turned a photo into an auto, but to get that auto gene in the gene pool of said cultivar some serious work has to be done...
This is where I'm at now...Looking for photo genetics, which 'I' like and turn them auto so I can grow them inside the greenhouse over summer...
By now, I've been granted a "small" space inside the house to install the smallest of growing tent my money could afford, which enables me to grow weed the entire year unlike when I was growing inside the greenhouse...And still I manage to find myself without weed at the moment, but that's another can of worms...
This tent put me in the opportunity to separate my males from the females, but will also put me in the opportunity to grow some photo's and play with their genetics.
Rewind back to the mid nineties and Bob's about 16 years old. On one of my first trips to Holland (a school trip of all!!) I got to know my favorite weed of all times....White Widow, which became a staple in my younger experimentation years. About thirty years later I took another (camping)trip to Holland with my family and ended up in coffeeshop Catweazel...After asking the guy behind the counter for "good" weed I got a baggie of what do you think? Yup, White Widow...Thirty+ years might have past, but the taste, smell and high I experienced brought me back to that first encounter...
So, looking where I'm at now I started researching the history of White Widow and where I could find an original source of this wonderful cultivar. I even called back to the people at Catweazel to ask if they could help me source a cut from the White Widow, but this was only replied with a lot of laughter on the other side of the phone...hehe...So my search continued and I ended up on MNS's auction site among others...And my luck couldn't get any better, because an auction for the Black Widow was nearly ending...I stayed up the whole night as I never partook on an auction before, refreshing every five minutes or so. Long story short, I won the auction for the Black Widow and a couple of hours before that even won the auction for a pack of Dreamtime, which I found out is a kind of mystery seedmix. For the moment these seeds will go inside my seed collection and I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Black Widow seeds so I can continue on my breeding journey.
To be quite honest, I've also ordered said cultivar from several other sources, which according to the fuzzy history also lay claim to these genetics, as I'm planning to do a blind test.
I don't care about all the politics that surrounds this origin story, I just want to find the best possible Widow and use it to make the best possible Auto Widow for my own enjoyment.
My missus, who doesn't use canna at all, will be numbering and anonymizing the seed samples so even I can't be influenced by the fact that I'm sponsored by Dutch Passion, might think that Ingemar is the 'One' or that @shantibaba did take the original parents with him in his exodus from GHS.
I'll be posting about this entire endeavor on AFN as this is my breeding ground, but will also be posting it here out of respect for all the hard work the old timers have done to provide me and the rest of the world with this fine example of Dutch ingenuity.
Regards,
Bob
Oh, and I made sure I had something to harvest every month as trimming is such a drag 
. If she were growing though, her physical limitations, and the capabilities of her caretakers would likely find autos much easier. The smaller size of most autos, being able to plant a seed or two every month or so, no worries for people fucking up the light schedule. These would all benifit them. 
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And have a fairly large greenhouse, which is primary used to grow peppers and tomatoes and since not to long ago tropical plants. In between them I strategically place a plant or two. These can get 1.5m tall, but I rather have a plant being only 1m tall, but being bud from bottom to top...If you get my drift. The larger pheno of the girls shown above really shows this well.
