Fixing auto/early flowering

[saskafarian]

As an outdoor, northern grower this is an important subject for me.

Male strain A crossed with female Mighty Mite. Strain A finishes for me at 53N by early/mid Sept. It is an auto flowerer that begins flowering at maturity, regardless of daylength. I have tried this one indoors and it flowered at 18 hrs. light. The Mighty Mite did not finish for me in time but was a very vigorous good looking plant. This plant was not an autoflowering or even early finishing one. I have tried Mighty Mite a few times from different sellers and have not seen any mid-august finishers as advertised. But that's another story.

My questions:
Is it as simple as growing out this cross and breeding the autoflowering individuals that show up?

Will I have any auto flowering plants this round or do I have to go one more generation?

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I have two different Lowryder crosses that I am thinking of trying. Indoor (at my latitude) females were crossed with Lowryder.

I would ask the same two questions in this scenario.

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thanks

[c-ray]

the way I figure it is there are X number of trigger genes required for a plant to be fully automatic, some plants I would call semi-automatic in that they respond well to root restriction, phosphorus fertilization, red spectrum light and an increase in night-length and also they are possible to keep in veg (stasis) as a mother plant but are a bit of a bitch as they need lots of attention, trimming back buds, trimming back roots, repotting, blue spectrum lights and hormone (kelp) supplementation
these semi-auto plants I would say have some of the trigger genes but not all, there is a fine line between fully auto and semi auto plants, it's the right combination of genes that will determine this

[Chuk]

Cross yours of 100 % AF the male to a female plant. In posterity you receive 50-75 % of germs which will show autoflowering. More information visit HighBred.net

Chuk

[saskafarian]

cray....I think I know what you mean. I have forced plants to show sex and then put the females outside. Cream Sodica is one of the strains I have done this with. In the majority, (80%) the plants continued to flower or went into a funky, single leaf semi veg state. The clones performed normally, but the mothers were all phucked up after only 10 - 14 days of 12/12.

I have tried to keep a CS mother over the winter, but had troubles keeping it in veg. CS as a whole barely finishes in time for me, but once started wants to keep flowering.

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Chuk.....Thanks for the link. I didn't know there was an autoflower site out there. Looks like I have some reading to do.