Dj Short's Blueberry Pheno Hunt.

So I finished this grow a few weeks back but decided to make a journal out of it anyway documenting my progress and the genetic expression of the strain in question.
The seed were acquired from Dj Short's Old World Genetics and were in the original breeder packs.
I placed the seeds in a paper towel folded into quarters, wetted the paper towel down and kept it in a warm, humid place. All of them but one or two germinated within a few days. They were then placed in soil.


Several weeks under a T-5 with an oscillating fan and they were well in their way. Below the plants were about 3-5 weeks above soil. I was waiting for the plants to get to the 8th node of growth so I could top them for mother back up cuts. At this point the plants had not been fed and the soil wasn't amended.


At the 8th node they were topped and the tops were placed in an aeroponic clone table for back ups.

Shortly after they were topped they were placed in flower under 2 600wt HPS bulbs and 2 400wt HPS bulbs. It was at this time that they were fed for the first time with a light water based nitrogen hight fertilizer. 12-6-6. Within 2-3 days they began to show sex and the males were culled out and placed off to the side in the flower room where the light was darker and at a greater angle to the plants. The males sat there for several days as the rest of the males showed there sex. After all the males were determined they were removed from the room and placed under a 600wt MH bulb.

As the males sat off to the side of the flower room I believe the lower light level combined with the increased angle of light induced resin production. I was able to select a resinous male based on what I believe to be this induced resin development. A trick I will surely be trying again in the future.

This was the best shot I was able to get of the sparkly male, I tried...lol, I really did. But he's got potential and smells nice, too.


I also ended up with a purple male.


The boys segregated in their holding pen.

great pics

The females segregated in their flowering room. They're in one gallon pots.



Full flow now. The plants were fed very lightly throughout their life cycle. I used a standard high nitrogen feed (12-6-6) along with vitamin b1 supplement and liquid seaweed through veg and into one week of flower. Plants veged for about 2.5-3 weeks and were only fed twice during this time.

Looking sweet up in here. Those girls are super happy.

In flower plants were fed a standard high phosphorus fertilizer, 5-10-5. Along with liquid bone meal, liquid seaweed and vitamin b1 and were flushed between each feeding. Bloom feeds began 2nd week in flower and were given only 3 times. The last feed was given during the 5th week of flower. Also the light cycle was adjusted the 3rd week of flower so that the lights were on for 11.5 hours and off for 12. And at the end of the 4th week the cycle was adjusted again so that the lights were on for 11 hours and off for 12.

#2 approximately 4 weeks in flower. Lights are running at 11.5 on and 12.5 off.

#2 approximately 5 weeks in flower. Light cycye is at 11on and 12off by this point.


#2 approximately 7 weeks in flower, almost done.

#16 approximately 4 weeks in flower.

#16 at 7th week in flower, almost done.

...more later...

#34 approximately 4 weeks in flower.

Approximately 6 weeks in flower.


Approximately 7 weeks in flower, almost done.

Looking really really good, JD. Thanks for sharing

Thanks everyone for the encouraging words. I've got pictures of three more phenos to upload out of my keepers. All told I ended up with 10 females that I kept and one male. I might have ended up keeping more than 10 females but my selection was hastened by a power failure that prompted me to prioritize what I kept. I only kept the male because it was producing resin and still don't know what to do with it, any takers? At some point I may consider backcrossing one of my female keepers to an earlier male. I feel it's pointless to cross it with it's resinous f5 brother seeing as how this f5 cross has been done so many times by so many others already.

All the females I kept based on growth development, smell, structure, resin development, and color. I'm currently trimming them up now. I'll get pictures of dried and cured buds as well as a smoke report on a few of them. Not sure I'll get to all 10 of em.

#35 approximately 4 weeks in flower.

Somewhere around end of 5th week.

Pushing through 6th week.

Finishing up, 7th week.

#38 approximately 4 weeks in flower. This was one of the shortest plants and earliest to finish. It had a purple rosette top and although all of them finished with notes of berry and fruit, this one smelled of berry the whole time. This was a very fun plant to watch grow.

Somewhere around the 35th-40th day.

End of 6th week.

Finishing up, 7th week.

# 2 and #34 remind me very much of the blueberry cross I was growing a while back,, god damn it looks good.

A while back I grew a pack of Sannies Killing Fields, one plant was the odd plant out of the bunch,, had a bueatiful lavender color,, a delicate, clean, amazingly uplifting high.. potency was not through the roof, but the quality of was orbiting the moon..
Anyway, I've been busting my balls trying to figure out what edge of the KF lineage brought about that plant, mostly the high of that plant.

#35 looks more like that plant than anything I have guessed yet.. I see Blueberry Sativa is in the KF lineage.. I wonder.

Last but certainly not least is my 1st pick, #55). This first picture is around the end of week 4 in flower. I selected this plant based on two primary reasons. The first reason was that it had minimal to no purpling. (I am definitely not opposed to purple and in fact love the color and love purple flowers). But the fact that this plant had minimal to no purpling indicated that it was expressing some recessive genetic anomalies. And the second reason I loved this plant was for it's unique sweet floral sour skunk aroma.

I suspect that this plant displayed more of the recessive afghan indica traits in the Blueberry line and for this reason I selected it as my 1st choice from this pheno hunt.

These pictures were taken around the middle of week 5 in flower.

Finishing up at the end of 7 weeks in flower. You can see how the flowers on this pheno look 'softer' than many of the others. There is no 'crispness' to this plant and in my opinion it stands to have greater potential for complex and pungent terpene and perhaps even resin production.

In other words, it could be grown in bat guano, dried in the microwave and still have that dank green bud smell.

Pictures of some of the dried and cured flowers to come along with smoke reports.

Is that a nitrogen deficiency in post #13 or does the plant just look like it's dying? These are some beautiful plants, how bout that smoke report?

Looking good