I wanted to show some nice seed plants that are coming up in the intense light of northern california's sacramento valley. These are the males from 9 blockhead F1 seeds that were started a few months back and transplanted recently to outdoors. I managed to score two original packs of blockhead, 15 seeds per pack and started some to make seeds with my killer blockhead clone that I love so much.
Just as things go with this profession there is always a demon following close behind to fuck up progress. . . I have a friend who thinks really highly of his pitbulls and just had to bring them over to my place. Out of 50 plants situated near the patio this goddamned dog attacked and mangled my numero Uno best looking male plant out of 5 that came from the seeds I planted. I put the cuttings I could take into an aero cloner and am desperately trying to nurse them back right now.
The main thing that surprised me about the blockhead seedplants is that they should only be 25% blueberry genes at most but they all have strong blueberry family traits like the wide jade green leaves and columnar growth. Very beautiful plants for sure. Selection is not really possibly to a huge extent because of the circumstances with blockhead being unavailable, but my female clone was selected from 500 seedplants and defines the strain in every way. So with the 5, hopefully 6 male plants available the f2 generation should be very desireable in this case.