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@BudRanger1919 Wow... looking amazing, with all that goodness.. I can see the hard job of choosing, how many are you looking to keep?
Thank you! Well, that's kind of the embarrassing part. Of the 6 pheno's I am technically keeping 5 šŸ¤£ but only so I can re-run 4 pheno's and narrow down which one I like the most, and of those 4 I will keep 1. As time has gone on number 3 came out on top, but I want a better look at them in bigger pots before I make my final decision.

The 5th pheno that I wont be re-running doesn't smell like blackcurrant, at all sadly, but she is a really fucking nice plant, and I don't have any mothers right now šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø so I might as well keep her until I run out of space. This is her.
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As time has gone on number 3 came out on top, but I want a better look at them in bigger pots before I make my final decision.
Excellent decision. I'm very new to this selection process thing and the first thing I picked up on was the one you think isn't gonna do well... Comes out like ice cream with whipped cream and a cherry on top. It seems to be a process. Well good for you man.. I applaud your efforts. Find that banger. It will be worth it! I'll have to wait a couple years for my pheno run. It seems like you have to attempt this a couple times at least once in your grow life. Exciting!
So the clones your keeping are from these guys so you can run them again, the ones you choose anyways, is that how it works?
 
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Excellent decision. I'm very new to this selection process thing and the first thing I picked up on was the one you think isn't gonna do well... Comes out like ice cream with whipped cream and a cherry on top. It seems to be a process. Well good for you man.. I applaud your efforts. Find that banger. It will be worth it! I'll have to wait a couple years for my pheno run. It seems like you have to attempt this a couple times at least once in your grow life. Exciting!
I couldn't have said it better myself! One day she was at the bottom of the list, the next she took the top spot šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø genetics are a real mystery. Whenever you feel like doing a pheno hunt let me know, I have done MANY! I used to have a tent with 4 premium hunted clone mothers I would run over and over again, some time ago now about 5 years. I grew in coco back then though which felt like easy-mode compared to soil. I'm slowly starting to get the hang of soil now haha.
So the clones your keeping are from these guys so you can run them again, the ones you choose anyways, is that how it works?
Yep, exactly! I'm not 100% on which is the best, beccause 4 of them smell almost exactly the same hah! I am pretty sure it is going to be pheno 3 šŸ¤£ her terps legit came out of nowhere! This is pretty unusual, most people can make up their minds fairly quickly with pheno hunts but I am a little rusty, so I am going to run the best 4 again. It will also give me a much better look at how they develop for a 2nd time.
 
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I couldn't have said it better myself! One day she was at the bottom of the list, the next she took the top spot šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø genetics are a real mystery. Whenever you feel like doing a pheno hunt let me know, I have done MANY! I used to have a tent with 4 premium hunted clone mothers I would run over and over again, some time ago now about 5 years. I grew in coco back then though which felt like easy-mode compared to soil. I'm slowly starting to get the hang of soil now haha.

Yep, exactly! I'm not 100% on which is the best, beccause 4 of them smell almost exactly the same hah! I am pretty sure it is going to be pheno 3 šŸ¤£ her terps legit came out of nowhere! This is pretty unusual, most people can make up their minds fairly quickly with pheno hunts but I am a little rusty, so I am going to run the best 4 again. It will also give me a much better look at how they develop for a 2nd time.
Don't forget the smoke report... That has to count for something? Maybe? šŸ˜‚
Yeah, if it's loud then probably a keeper for sho.
And that soil thing.. just add water they said... šŸ˜’šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ Liars!!
 
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Don't forget the smoke report... That has to count for something? Maybe? šŸ˜‚
Yeah, if it's loud then probably a keeper for sho.
Absolutely! I will be doing a detailed report šŸ˜ and I do one before and after cure. IMO if you cant smoke your buds before you cure them they aren't ready to go into jars. Shes the loudest, so lets hope that stays true.
And that soil thing.. just add water they said... šŸ˜’šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ Liars!!
šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ Yeah the marketing and influencers around specific products can be insufferable. I was happy to find this place and actually get learning, I felt like I learnt nothing but junk until I got here. I was watering my plants every day like my chart and YouTubers told me, a little bit every day to keep the soil alive, and I nearly killed my plants šŸ¤£ poor things were gasping for air and became stunted for 10 days. Wet to dry cycle now!
 
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IMO if you cant smoke your buds before you cure them they aren't ready to go into jars
Dude... Copy and Pasted to my notes .. huge. šŸ’ÆšŸ”„ Thank you!

Same with the watering.. I wait till they dry back a bit now the same. Game changer. šŸ˜Ž And from here as well.
With the blumats I run them closer to the dryer side, just moist, never wet when in flower. That's what they recommended.
 
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Dude... Copy and Pasted to my notes .. huge. šŸ’ÆšŸ”„ Thank you!
No worries man. I have cured a lot of bud, I used to run an LSD pheno twice a year in the cold months it was my favourite, used to cure that strain over and over so I tested a lot. Without question, every time I put my buds in to cure when they couldn't be smoked easily? They would stay wet for a month+ even if I burped them every day, and you cant have that level of moisture in them if you worry about mold etc like I do. I hang whole but take most large fan leaves off, and I do the snap test on small branches, and I start snap tests on day 7 of Drying. I always test it on different branches every day, and as soon as they snap I take a lower bud off each plant then I smoke it. If it smokes well enough I cure it. If the cherry keeps expanding and turns solid, or if I have to keep re-lighting my joint or it just doesn't burn well I leave it up for another day or 2.
 
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Thank you! Well, that's kind of the embarrassing part. Of the 6 pheno's I am technically keeping 5 šŸ¤£ but only so I can re-run 4 pheno's and narrow down which one I like the most, and of those 4 I will keep 1. As time has gone on number 3 came out on top, but I want a better look at them in bigger pots before I make my final decision.

The 5th pheno that I wont be re-running doesn't smell like blackcurrant, at all sadly, but she is a really fucking nice plant, and I don't have any mothers right now šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø so I might as well keep her until I run out of space. This is her.
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I like the subtle purples coming through, I love the look of a full purp plant but sometimes those purple highlights look even cooler šŸ˜

I hear ya on the mother though I donā€™t have one either, was gunna reveg my Frostette and see how the kahunas turn out Iā€™ll keep the best of the 3 but like you said, might as well keep around the one you like most until you find a better one, my problem is keeping a mother takes up a space in my plant count so I usually just run a few generations of clones of ones I like
 
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I like the subtle purples coming through, I love the look of a full purp plant but sometimes those purple highlights look even cooler šŸ˜
She is by far the prettiest and the frostiest, I love checking her out too! She smells extremely pleasant, all of them do to be honest, my last plants the Grifters smelt sickly sweet and they gave me a headache if I spent too much time in the tent HAHA, so this is a welcome change lol. More of an sweet and fruity smell. I think she might make a really nice night time smoke, and I don't have a pheno for that yet šŸ˜‰ .
I hear ya on the mother though I donā€™t have one either, was gunna reveg my Frostette and see how the kahunas turn out Iā€™ll keep the best of the 3 but like you said, might as well keep around the one you like most until you find a better one, my problem is keeping a mother takes up a space in my plant count so I usually just run a few generations of clones of ones I like
That's the ticket man, until I got some better genetics to replace her shes got a spot in my tent, all illegal here so although I don't have to adhere to a plant count I would have to adhere to a boot up my ass by the police if they found out about even 1 šŸ¤£ . I am hoping in the future I can reverse the mothers I collect so I dont have to keep a room full of plants all the time hahaha.
 
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Week 7 of Flower, day 43.

Girls were thirsty so I gave them 3 litres each. Just rhizo and microbe/fungi in the water for the rest of the grow, other than 1 last 1/2 strength top dress but that's for the soil. Really happy with this strain, and I am starting to notice some differences in my top picks. My favourite smells sour, whilst her sisters smell sweet.
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I gave them a final defoliation a few days ago, and only if they were shading nuggets. Some stack-shots and some bud shots. These girls are nearly done! They have doubled in stench by the way šŸ˜ . Nuggets are ROCK solid.
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Week 5 of veg, day 33.

Girls were thirsty so I gave them 1 litre each yesterday. I gave them their first fertilizer feed in the water, and this was a 10 day dry-back. I still need to decide which clones to keep, but that will be easier to tell in a day or so. So far I am really happy with how these Kir Royales are behaving as clones. I turned my LED up to 30% which is 140w, at 30"+ from the canopy.
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She is by far the prettiest and the frostiest, I love checking her out too! She smells extremely pleasant, all of them do to be honest, my last plants the Grifters smelt sickly sweet and they gave me a headache if I spent too much time in the tent HAHA, so this is a welcome change lol. More of an sweet and fruity smell. I think she might make a really nice night time smoke, and I don't have a pheno for that yet šŸ˜‰ .

That's the ticket man, until I got some better genetics to replace her shes got a spot in my tent, all illegal here so although I don't have to adhere to a plant count I would have to adhere to a boot up my ass by the police if they found out about even 1 šŸ¤£ . I am hoping in the future I can reverse the mothers I collect so I dont have to keep a room full of plants all the time hahaha.
You in the US just a non legal state?
 
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Nah I am in Australia haha!
If you can Iā€™d order 3-4 strains of regs first male should pollinate every plant you have going, harvest, freeze seeds, go worrry free!

Other option work with what you have. Buy a bottle of collidal silver so no seeds get shipped to you and reverse a branch on each plant to backcross and make yourself a stash of fems of each strain

As you get other seeds try to have pollen in the fridge / freezer to pull out to hit them with.
 
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If you can Iā€™d order 3-4 strains of regs first male should pollinate every plant you have going, harvest, freeze seeds, go worrry free!
Thank the LORD I ordered some already šŸ˜ . When I ordered seeds I decided to get a BUNCH of regulars as well. Here is a picture of my Reg seed list.
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Other option work with what you have. Buy a bottle of collidal silver so no seeds get shipped to you and reverse a branch on each plant to backcross and make yourself a stash of fems of each strain
This is what I want! I know I have safeguards in place now, but I cant have a repeat of what happened last time. I lost all my mothers years ago, died of thirst whilst I was separated from my house for 2 weeks. I didn't have any friends who had cuts or anything, was a real deep cut, and this time around I want to at least have fem-seeds of my favourites. Will they be perfect copies of my cuts? Of course they wont, but they will be close enough in the event my whole town is nearly destroyed again and I have to flee for my life šŸ¤£ .
As you get other seeds try to have pollen in the fridge / freezer to pull out to hit them with.
Speaking of storage, how do you store your seeds for long-term? Do you use a fridge or freezer or anything? I have a bunch of seeds I wont be touching for 3-5 years and was just wondering if there is a better place to store them.
 
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Man oh man brother, I am catching up and holy shit the progress I missed!! Looking sexy and agreed with @Mikedin those purple hues coming through are šŸ”„

Regarding your question about seed storage, I personally store mine in their shipped containers, then in ziplocks and then in a storage container and placed inside of my refrigerator :)
 
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Thank the LORD I ordered some already šŸ˜ . When I ordered seeds I decided to get a BUNCH of regulars as well. Here is a picture of my Reg seed list.
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This is what I want! I know I have safeguards in place now, but I cant have a repeat of what happened last time. I lost all my mothers years ago, died of thirst whilst I was separated from my house for 2 weeks. I didn't have any friends who had cuts or anything, was a real deep cut, and this time around I want to at least have fem-seeds of my favourites. Will they be perfect copies of my cuts? Of course they wont, but they will be close enough in the event my whole town is nearly destroyed again and I have to flee for my life šŸ¤£ .

Speaking of storage, how do you store your seeds for long-term? Do you use a fridge or freezer or anything? I have a bunch of seeds I wont be touching for 3-5 years and was just wondering if there is a better place to store them.
Just made a dedicated a wine cooler to seed storage only in the lung room. Sheā€™s set to 46f low as itā€™ll go, should get some years out of em in here, longer than that would be freezer method, much longer storage ability but I get nervous freezing them keeping them cool and dry and dormant I feel is best (for me)

I have them inside a Tupperware with 10 silica packs, then inside that Tupperware is 4 smaller containers each packed with seeds and 2 additional silica packs
 
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