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So there is a great thread on DJ Short's catalog system on here. I'd look into that.I've been trying to come up with a simple system for my grow to log and compare traits from plant to plant. The goal is to select the best partner for my first attempt at a cross. I would love some imput from fellow farmers, like the traits you select for and how to keep track of it all. I already keep a detailed grow log and would love to incorporate them both together. So far here's what I have:
VEG
Growth: vigor/ease cloning
Nodes: spacing/branching
Color/Look: Indica/Sativa
Training: ease/recovery?
FLOWER:
Stretch: intensity/duration
Structure: tight/loose/foxtail etc.
Smell: my best guess at terps? Idk
Color: obvious duh lol
Trichomes: development/density
Finish Time: days to harvest
So what am I missing? Or what should I not bother with? Are water and feed level important for selecting? Things like that are where I get blindsided by lack of experience...
Love this thread btw ❤❤
Awesome! Thank you! See? I totally missed PESTS!! How careless!So there is a great thread on DJ Short's catalog system on here. I'd look into that.
Other than that, I would keep it simple and think about true breeding and hybrid vigor.
But that's probably obvious from my input already lol.
In terms of the traits you can select for....from Clarke.
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Spreadsheet with each characteristic as well as the strength of that characteristic to scale (whatever you determine to be most/least). If you set it up this way, at least you can sort by multiple variables.I've been trying to come up with a simple system for my grow to log and compare traits from plant to plant. The goal is to select the best partner for my first attempt at a cross. I would love some imput from fellow farmers, like the traits you select for and how to keep track of it all. I already keep a detailed grow log and would love to incorporate them both together. So far here's what I have:
VEG
Growth: vigor/ease cloning
Nodes: spacing/branching
Color/Look: Indica/Sativa
Training: ease/recovery?
FLOWER:
Stretch: intensity/duration
Structure: tight/loose/foxtail etc.
Smell: my best guess at terps? Idk
Color: obvious duh lol
Trichomes: development/density
Finish Time: days to harvest
So what am I missing? Or what should I not bother with? Are water and feed level important for selecting? Things like that are where I get blindsided by lack of experience...
Love this thread btw ❤❤
Excel and I are bitter enemys..ooof no can do sorrySpreadsheet with each characteristic as well as the strength of that characteristic to scale (whatever you determine to be most/least). If you set it up this way, at least you can sort by multiple variables.
Virus/PM susceptibility?Awesome! Thank you! See? I totally missed PESTS!! How careless!I'm spoiled though because my situation has some natural advantages staying bug free
Honestly my strategy is to just get really high whenever I tend to the garden and talk to the plants. That's how I grow and that's how I will select lol.Excel and I are bitter enemys..ooof no can do sorry
Then I guess someone setting it up for you isn’t helpful.Excel and I are bitter enemys..ooof no can do sorry
Graph paper. Instant boxes to fill in/check off lol.I also have a nostalgic love of black and white notebooks and proper Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencils ✏
Yes! I've seen yours in your thread and its awesome! I just don't ever see myself on the computer doing it.Then I guess someone setting it up for you isn’t helpful.
I'm definitely sending you some F1 seeds to grow then if you want, and keep track with that spreadsheet!!!Then I guess someone setting it up for you isn’t helpful.
Agree about the subjective part and curing is really based on the skill of the grower. Plus, isnt the smoke the sum total of all your selections? Hard to know which part of the equation to change to produce a given result.I ate two 60mg cookies last night so it’s taken me this long to catch up to you guys lol
I’ve been keeping track of growth, resilience to PM and pests, branching, etc
BUT most important for me is how it smokes, how it affects my mind (vastly subjective I know) This is medicine for me so that’s a huge factor.
Problem is though that I have to keep clones until end of curing to find that out.
I have notes on a video on chemovars that is toward that question on my diary. My current mental model is terps modulate cannabinoids. I need to research the latter by science but the former can be judged more intuitively I think by the senses.Agree about the subjective part. Plus, isnt the smoke the sum total of all your selections? Hard to know which part of the equation to change to produce a given result.
I have a 1:1 thc/cbd auto plant going now and the medicinal factor is going to be big for me on that grow. Maybe eventually I will be courageous enough to try and self one?I ate two 60mg cookies last night so it’s taken me this long to catch up to you guys lol
I’ve been keeping track of growth, resilience to PM and pests, branching, etc
BUT most important for me is how it smokes, how it affects my mind (vastly subjective I know) This is medicine for me so that’s a huge factor.
Problem is though that I have to keep clones until end of curing to find that out.
Agree about the subjective part. Plus, isnt the smoke the sum total of all your selections? Hard to know which part of the equation to change to produce that result.
I have notes on a video on chemovars that is toward that question on my diary. My current mental model is terps modulate cannabinoids. I need to research the latter by science but the former can be judged more intuitively I think by the senses.
As I gain more experience I am hopeful I can develop a better intuition re: what my senses are telling me and what I know of past situations where my senses told me something similar and how that smoked. That's going to be a very long game, but the only way forward ain't through a screen. I use glass jacks anyhow
How about light levels? Does the plant crave more light than you gan give her, or does she make huge flowers in weak light?I've been trying to come up with a simple system for my grow to log and compare traits from plant to plant. The goal is to select the best partner for my first attempt at a cross. I would love some imput from fellow farmers, like the traits you select for and how to keep track of it all. I already keep a detailed grow log and would love to incorporate them both together. So far here's what I have:
VEG
Growth: vigor/ease cloning
Nodes: spacing/branching
Color/Look: Indica/Sativa
Training: ease/recovery?
FLOWER:
Stretch: intensity/duration
Structure: tight/loose/foxtail etc.
Smell: my best guess at terps? Idk
Color: obvious duh lol
Trichomes: development/density
Finish Time: days to harvest
So what am I missing? Or what should I not bother with? Are water and feed level important for selecting? Things like that are where I get blindsided by lack of experience...
Love this thread btw ❤❤
My lights throw 1000 umol across a big part of my canopy and I don't supplement co2 so I think I've hit my ceiling as far as that's concerned right? My ambient co2 in the lung room is 700-800 but it drops to 500 to 550 in the tent.How about light levels? Does the plant crave more light than you gan give her, or does she make huge flowers in weak light?
Agree that is plant trait for sure! They sure have different preferences....How about light levels? Does the plant crave more light than you gan give her, or does she make huge flowers in weak light?
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