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How many Keepers do you find in a Pack??
Having finished my outdoor for the year and indoor for a time, and having some mixed results, I thought I might start a thread and get some input from everyone here.
How many keepers is everyone lucky enough to find in a pack of commercial seeds- any breeder or type is welcome? I know that it it arbitrary, everyone has different tastes, medical needs, yield requiremements, etc. But, if you grew out a pack of seeds, how many might be keepers? Say knocking one of your existing loves out of the room/house?(and not your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend) I am talking cant live without out running it again.
I am not here to bash any breeders AT ALL. Just posting my experiences. My time and space is valuable and running gear that does not cut it.....just does not cut it! It annoys me that i have grown out half/full packs of seed and have not found more keepers.
A little background- Been growing mostly outdoors for a long while, I had been getting local seeds, but they became difficult to get as circumstances change and got tired of the same old stuff. This year I grew 7 different strains, all from seed, purchased throughthe usual suspects :Some outdoors, some indoors. As I said,I had mixed results with some of the strains I ran this year:
All from seed-
C4 Chimera- Outdoors Started five, two females- 0 Keepers- Kinda peppery/hay smelling- not that great of a yielder in comparison to others. Wont run again. Also, very suceptible to mold.
Super skunk Sensi seeds- Outdoors Started five and got four females- 0 keepers. They were very uniform in growth, and pheno mid sized leaves- and very very vigorous. They also yielded great and were lemon smelling in scent in flower, but it did not translate in flavor and they did not trich up as much as I would like. Wont run again.
Blue Moonshine- DJ 5 seeds, three females- 0 Keepers- I know I will get slammed for this, but it just didnt do it for me. They were all very uniform, almost IBL like, purple stems throughout, some purpleing in the buds, Ok trichs, very slow growing and low yielding. I was hoping that the smoke would make up for it but at 45 days cured, there is almost none of the blueberry smell I was hoping for. From the description, they were supposed to be tight indica-ish nugs, not for me, got some foxtailing, but I dont necessarly like that- just me. On the fence on this one.....might pop the rest.
Blue Satellite 2.2- 4 started, 2 females- 0 keepers. Looked like most others, nothing special. Average trichs, almost no smell, low yielding, bummer.
Roadkill x DC- Cannacopia- 3 started, 2 females. Large dark green leaves, Indica dom, excellent yielders- huge dense colas! nice trich coverage, some purpleing at harvest. The smell definitely has some real skunk undertones. I think these were DC dominant, I will definitely be running again to try to find the skunkier pheno.
Cheese X DC- Cannacopia- 3 started, 1 female- . Slightly taller and less DC dominant smaller yield. Nice trichs, musky scent, lime green nugs. I will run again, but not necessarily any keepers yet.
Sensi Star- Paradise- 4 started, 1 female- Just great herb. The female I got was VERY sativa dominant, the males were Ind Dominant. Huge, lime green Baseball and 2 litre bottle sized colas, medium density, Stinky like lemons, B.O. and skunk. Awesome trich coverage all the way to the tips of the leaves.The only thing is there were A LOT of leaves, a bitch to trim. MMMMMMMMMMMM....... Bubble hash! Took clones- Def Keeper!
Phew.... blabbed on for longer than i thought..... Stoooonnnneeer. So post away- How many keepers are you all finding- 1,2,5 out of ten??????
Having finished my outdoor for the year and indoor for a time, and having some mixed results, I thought I might start a thread and get some input from everyone here.
How many keepers is everyone lucky enough to find in a pack of commercial seeds- any breeder or type is welcome? I know that it it arbitrary, everyone has different tastes, medical needs, yield requiremements, etc. But, if you grew out a pack of seeds, how many might be keepers? Say knocking one of your existing loves out of the room/house?(and not your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend) I am talking cant live without out running it again.
I am not here to bash any breeders AT ALL. Just posting my experiences. My time and space is valuable and running gear that does not cut it.....just does not cut it! It annoys me that i have grown out half/full packs of seed and have not found more keepers.
A little background- Been growing mostly outdoors for a long while, I had been getting local seeds, but they became difficult to get as circumstances change and got tired of the same old stuff. This year I grew 7 different strains, all from seed, purchased throughthe usual suspects :Some outdoors, some indoors. As I said,I had mixed results with some of the strains I ran this year:
All from seed-
C4 Chimera- Outdoors Started five, two females- 0 Keepers- Kinda peppery/hay smelling- not that great of a yielder in comparison to others. Wont run again. Also, very suceptible to mold.
Super skunk Sensi seeds- Outdoors Started five and got four females- 0 keepers. They were very uniform in growth, and pheno mid sized leaves- and very very vigorous. They also yielded great and were lemon smelling in scent in flower, but it did not translate in flavor and they did not trich up as much as I would like. Wont run again.
Blue Moonshine- DJ 5 seeds, three females- 0 Keepers- I know I will get slammed for this, but it just didnt do it for me. They were all very uniform, almost IBL like, purple stems throughout, some purpleing in the buds, Ok trichs, very slow growing and low yielding. I was hoping that the smoke would make up for it but at 45 days cured, there is almost none of the blueberry smell I was hoping for. From the description, they were supposed to be tight indica-ish nugs, not for me, got some foxtailing, but I dont necessarly like that- just me. On the fence on this one.....might pop the rest.
Blue Satellite 2.2- 4 started, 2 females- 0 keepers. Looked like most others, nothing special. Average trichs, almost no smell, low yielding, bummer.
Roadkill x DC- Cannacopia- 3 started, 2 females. Large dark green leaves, Indica dom, excellent yielders- huge dense colas! nice trich coverage, some purpleing at harvest. The smell definitely has some real skunk undertones. I think these were DC dominant, I will definitely be running again to try to find the skunkier pheno.
Cheese X DC- Cannacopia- 3 started, 1 female- . Slightly taller and less DC dominant smaller yield. Nice trichs, musky scent, lime green nugs. I will run again, but not necessarily any keepers yet.
Sensi Star- Paradise- 4 started, 1 female- Just great herb. The female I got was VERY sativa dominant, the males were Ind Dominant. Huge, lime green Baseball and 2 litre bottle sized colas, medium density, Stinky like lemons, B.O. and skunk. Awesome trich coverage all the way to the tips of the leaves.The only thing is there were A LOT of leaves, a bitch to trim. MMMMMMMMMMMM....... Bubble hash! Took clones- Def Keeper!
Phew.... blabbed on for longer than i thought..... Stoooonnnneeer. So post away- How many keepers are you all finding- 1,2,5 out of ten??????