What Strains To Run Next Year For My Light Dep.

[MendoGiantZ]

2016 is officially all wrapped up for me and my two farms and I'm planning ahead for next year. We're switching everything over to light dep and I'm wondering what strains I should run.
Im not very exciting when it comes to genetics and trying new things. I want a well known strain that is a healthy plant and produces a lot.
My buddy said he can get me enough green crack clones to do both properties and get them to me at the exact time I want.
I have heard good things about green crack and the fact in finishes kinda quick makes me think I could get them nice and big and still easily get my three harvests in.

 

[souf69]

Please let me know when i can roll out get some of those clones as well.
Would love to have her in my collection. Flo does fairly well for short harvests, ive pulled her in 45 days and as much as 69 days. Still the same end result with a little less yield.

 

[MendoGiantZ]

Cherry pie and blue dream are two other strains I have had great results with almost no problems.

 

[tj Wise]

Where do you get online information for outdor strains? How do you search, what search terms do you use? Are there specific sites?

I am investigating these strains for outdoor in Southern Oregon:

The Doctor, Purple Widow, Lemon Skunk, Moby Dick, White Shark

 

[Bulldog420]

I would wager ease of harvest.

I like your approach, will be doing much of the same here. Still have my full season, but smaller quicker plants will rule the property. I was searching at the Emerald Cup asking just that question. Aficionado sold me their top strain and said it kills deps. (can't remember name, yes I got sold) South fork seeds sent me to South Fork Kush and Cherry Chem. Picked up a hundred pack of each. Then I made my way over to Ganja Rebel. I will make a post on my IG about that guy, but wow, what a class act. His product was amazing, (as were the others I mentioned) but dude is one of the most genuine people I have ever met. Picked up a hundred pack of the lemon tree. Said he was getting 9.5 lbs out of a 200 gallon pot. I think those will be full season. Then I also picked up some Bruce Banner 2.0 because my concentrate buy recommended it for squishin'. I think that will be full season and deps, see how she does.

Clone form I have Sour D and SFV always a good dep choice. Also lemon tree I might try in the deps. Have some BLR as well.

On the same page here, looking for keeper dep varieties.

 

[NightsWatch]

Well cherry pie of course again although its yields are on the lower side of stains but well rounded and a good seller
I also changing things up and going with ojds haze for early light dep starting seeds up right after Christmas.
Making sure i have some nice plants come out door transplant time .. 5 months worth indoor :)

Being your light dep i would look for sativa leaning ,closing out the season with indica dominant strain something haze in it :) is my thought

As for cherry pie it needs to stay in the garden some where

 

[Blaze]

For reliability and consistency our two winners have always been Urkle Wreck and OG Twist. The Urkle Wreck finishes very fast at 7 weeks, looks and smells great, so high bag appeal. The OG Twist is more at 8 or 9 weeks but is much more potent and in general just better bud, though it doesn't look quite as pretty.

If you are shooting for 3 harvests in cold frames you definitely need to be running all 7-8 week strains in my opinion. Frankly I think we will be dropping all the 9-10 week strains from our dep line up as well, those extra weeks add up to too much lost time. So probably no more Sour D or Girl Scout in the dep.

Your biggest hurdle will be finding a source that can reliably produce that many clones when you need them.

 

[Bulldog420]

How do you guys feel about seed runs in the greenhouse? Or is this a clone game? Even if you pop hundreds of just one strain? Think I might fill a greenhouse or two with just one seed stain and select a keeper. Not sure how the greenhouse will do as far as uniformity and harvest windows, but should be fun. For me this year, it's all about selecting my genetic library. I did good this year, but next year I will locking it down.

 

[mancdank]

Ex gens lemon meringue would be nice outdoors

 

[Blaze]

How do you guys feel about seed runs in the greenhouse? Or is this a clone game? Even if you pop hundreds of just one strain? Think I might fill a greenhouse or two with just one seed stain and select a keeper. Not sure how the greenhouse will do as far as uniformity and harvest windows, but should be fun. For me this year, it's all about selecting my genetic library. I did good this year, but next year I will locking it down.

We've always done clones due to uniformity. If you are looking to select out a keeper it could be a good move though. You will be able to do a much larger number of plants to select from and get results faster than if you did them outdoors.

 

[Blaze]

Also depends on your market too. One of the problems we ran into this year is that by testing a small number of a bunch of new strains in our greenhouse I ended up with a bunch of really nice product but, but not enough to make a full unit with many of the new varieties. With seeds you could run into the same problem - a few ounces here and there all of plants that look different. The dispensaries we deal with don't take halves or quarters so it is going to be a hassle to find a home for those odd amounts.

 

[Bulldog420]

They'd an easy fix, just mix similar pheno's and don't tell them.

You must not know Travis, the bud tender at harborside. He see's that from a mile away.

Great points Blaze.

 

[Mr Bee]

If u could lay your hands on some og Nepali x goji f3 from bodhi there's some huge yeilding high quality phenos in there that just reek so strongly of earth fuel funk.
Better yeild era than straight goji

 

[Blaze]

You must not know Travis, the bud tender at harborside. He see's that from a mile away.

Great points Blaze.

Haha I was thinking the same thing. Again it depends on your market, some folks wont care and/or be able to spot mixed phenos. I don't think I could get away with it with our market though. Despite what you might hear some of the tenders and buyers for dispensaries have an extremely keen eye and are quite good at their jobs.

 

[mancdank]

Haha I was thinking the same thing. Again it depends on your market, some folks wont care and/or be able to spot mixed phenos. I don't think I could get away with it with our market though. Despite what you might hear some of the tenders and buyers for dispensaries have an extremely keen eye and are quite good at their jobs.

I called in a coffee shop in spain a few months back and they tried telling me this strain was 3 diffrent weeds but I knew damn well it was just 3 diffrent pheno of the same thing :)

 

[mancdank]

If u could lay your hands on some og Nepali x goji f3 from bodhi there's some huge yeilding high quality phenos in there that just reek so strongly of earth fuel funk.
Better yeild era than straight goji

It was doing really well out doors in spain the nepoji bro there was guna be 3ft arms if the Spanish police wouldn't have had diffrent ideas

 

[MendoGiantZ]

It's kinda bad business these days to try and sneak things past the buyers. It's more important to build an honest long term relationship. Plus most people are really good at being picky like blaze and bulldog both stated.
So I'm narrowing down my choices. Leaning towards doing about half green crack. My other friend can supply me with about 400 skittle babies. My other friend who has been doing a lot of pheno hunting has a seed start that he swears by that he has made a couple moms of and promises me I will love it. He said he can provide me another 400 babies of that. So 25 percent skittles. ( does anyone know if it yields good?). 25 percent of my buddies strain and the other 50 percent green crack.
I have a feeling things will change. It's always super hard to get lots of healthy nice clones exactly when u want them. The awesome thing about dep is a lot of the more boutique strains tend to really thrive compared to when u run them full term and run into problems.

 

[MendoGiantZ]

In other shitty news Sonoma county banned all growing on properties not zoned agriculture or industrial. EVen if you own 40 acres in rural residential and only wanna do a small greenhouse they can come and fuck with you.
My business partner is a real estate agent and she said in the last two months these ideal properties have had insane bidding wars and raised over 28 percent in price. PRop 64 is really playing out like many of us thought it would and is making it very difficult for small farmers to compete. Not many people can afford AG properties in Sonoma county. Even if you do buy one they can just change the rules the next year. (So disappointing )

 

[mancdank]

It's kinda bad business these days to try and sneak things past the buyers. It's more important to build an honest long term relationship. Plus most people are really good at being picky like blaze and bulldog both stated.
So I'm narrowing down my choices. Leaning towards doing about half green crack. My other friend can supply me with about 400 skittle babies. My other friend who has been doing a lot of pheno hunting has a seed start that he swears by that he has made a couple moms of and promises me I will love it. He said he can provide me another 400 babies of that. So 25 percent skittles. ( does anyone know if it yields good?). 25 percent of my buddies strain and the other 50 percent green crack.
I have a feeling things will change. It's always super hard to get lots of healthy nice clones exactly when u want them. The awesome thing about dep is a lot of the more boutique strains tend to really thrive compared to when u run them full term and run into problems.

I'm looking forward to what ever u decide to grow it would be great to be working at these levels bur anyways back to the strains green crack is a good producer a few good friends run all the time but only in doors will be good to see what u guys do with it out doors

 

[MendoGiantZ]

I'm looking forward to what ever u decide to grow it would be great to be working at these levels bur anyways back to the strains green crack is a good producer a few good friends run all the time but only in doors will be good to see what u guys do with it out doors

My buddy used to do really well with it. I'm mostly excited about it because of the quick finish time and have heard it's a solid producer.