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Have You Dedicated Your Garden to a Single Strain?

Pig-Pen

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What strain?

How long?

Why?



(2nd attempt at the same thread, thought a more direct title and approach would help.....)
 
Hey what up p-pen,
After my first grow I was really happy with my results, the only thing was that I noticed that 2-3 plants were not as crystally as all the rest. those were the smallest plants.
So from then on I decided to just grow out the same strain per room or per square meter. Simply because of the shit that i put up with during my first grow (indoor). I had plants proped up on buckets, and a cannopy that was very uneven :bashhead: and it was a bitch to water and care for. I MEAN A BITCH.
Any ways from the second cycle I ever did indoors I had decided to only grow the same strain on each grow or per tray (square meter) shit looked so much more better let me tell ya.
It was alot easier to water and foliar spray and what not.... Just perfect garden , not to mention I didn't have to make a shit load of different nute mixes for each strain.

Usually it is a Purple strain or one of my own crosses, and lately since I started breeding I have had to compromise a little with doing like one strain in each 3x3 area or whatever, I am currently building a little cabinet where I can do little 1-2 foot plants as a test run to see if I like the plant or to do test runs on the new strains or crosses that I make.
Adjusting veg times for each strain is tricky but can be done so we have even canopy's.
to name all the strains would be a bitch, the strain I've grown more is my Beloved OG Kush x Mendo Purps and a Sour Diesel that i really love also.
Here's a pic of my current canopy


Here's a pic of a 4x4 tray full of OG x Purple


this is a very good I idea for a thread, keep it up bro.
health and blessings
tb
 

subrob

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in the early to mid 90's we had a strain from alaska that was called ole blue. she has been around since early to mid 80's. for three years we grew nothin but blue. during that 3 year stretch i remember smokin something else on maybe 4 occasions. and twice it was just so another bro wouldnt feel like we were dissing his big bud strain. i know that sounds like bullshit, but its true. keep in mind, we did not have access to the strains we do today. things were drastically diff. just 12 years ago, and we were underground. i am currently trying to get ole blue back to see how she stacks up against todays elites, but im havin some trouble.
 

englishrick

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clones......NYCD from 01-04 "or somethin like that"....

...............Cheese from 06-....

the Cheese and my old NYCD clone are so amazing that its very hard to have better smoke from any other plant .....when your benchmark is Cheese some other plants just dont live up to the hype....

im allways worried il find bland smoke from seeds........but lately ive been testing the water!!.....A11...SSH x OGKA....

Cheese and NYCD are not bland!!!!!.....every last bit is "KIND" tasty,dreamy,"All with big smell/3-4 bags cant hold it"...etc

i think the haze in the SSH x OGKA will be to my taste!!!....A11 will be a big change for me...
 
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relic1981

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ive thought about it before but i can never bring myself to exclude all my strains but one. i need the variety in order to suite my needs. plus tolerance would make that single strain worthless after about 3 days!
 

englishrick

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when people expect something "PUCKA".....

sometimes its hard to run from seed all the time.......

i ran the same NYCD clone for years...and i only had one mother,,


my friends have run the same Cheese clone since 06......knowone grows anything else....."because most is CRAP!! in comparison"

find that pheno..."the one that everyone loves".....then keep it.....thats what i say....

then move on and find the next big thing!!....
 
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