Welcome franjan
I have a pack of dream time that was a freebie for some reason. It was so insignificant I can't even recall why it was added to my order. I just said thank you and put them in storage with the rest of my seed collection. Truthfully it will probably be the last thing I try because I don't know what to expect from it. If my memory is correct it's a mix of about five thing and there's no info about lineage. Most strains you can find info about percentages ect. Like SSH 25% skunk 25% nl and 50% haze. I really don't want to pop a six foot sativa and have a 3 foot snunk plant or something next to it. Never mind if they all have different desires for food! Ect. Although there is some interesting things in there.
I'm searching for a SSH star right now. I've only popped 25 beans from the 1gram lot I bought. I'm waiting for them to cure now. Of the 12 females there were a few standouts that most people would be happy with. But I'm reaching for the stars for my own personal cut.
I've also got a 1 gram lot of shit. I've run them before and I think it's worth finding a quality specimen of. I'm not rushing to work with it though. Because I have a cut from the first pack. I could be wrong because I only ran one pack but the sativa phenos were a pain in the ass to clean. Although I'm hoping to find one that impresses when I do. But in my pack it was the few indica leaning phenos that stood out.
Critical mass didn't impress me. The flowers were large but everything else about it I found to be average. Didn't even think about buying another pack.
Medicine man I did it early before I learned to appreciate a sativa. So I never sampled any of them. It all went to the patients. Here again I only saved the indica leaning phenos. Those I tried and liked but kept toking the SSH. I also over crowded my area when I ran them. So with the experience I've gained since then I think it's well worth doing again in the future.
I have 2 packs of devil but everything I've read is telling me not to use them inside. So I'm going to have a friend plant some of them outside this season. When the time comes I'm going to pollinate them with my favorite 3-4 females and see if I can't put a little red in them? I'm going to keep cuttings so I can self the ones that produce the nicest colors as well for the following season outside.
For whatever reason I didn't find ash interesting. I've bought more than half the strains and never thought about ordering it. Keep us posted.
Can I ask why you didn't fill those tiny cups with soil? Seedlings need room for the tap root to grow downward. Leaving them in that shallow ground at the start could stunt their growth. I'm always an eager beaver to get my seedling out of the starter flats and into a solo cup as soon as possible. So when they do get transplanted you won't get the rapid growth spurt. Instead it will be getting over the fact the tap root couldn't take its natural course. With cuttings it's not as important because you should have 2 or more nodes below the soil. So the roots start out going sideways before the head south. Just my opinion but it's food for thought.
Dreamtime is great as padding for your minimum for Mr Nice auctions. Why pay 9 bucks extra to ship your 2 sub 50 Euro wins, when you can almost certainly grab Dreamtime for 8 or 9 Euro
. I'll tell you though I'm already thinking of culling the Sativa/Haze strains from the Dreamtime round. The stretch I'm seeing is pretty severe from the sexing I did.
Yeah G my last CM batch produced a boatload of males and a whole bunch of mediocre females, except for one which had a fruity hashy taste with serious coffee undertones and an all day high. Loved that plant but didn't like the 10+ week run and the seeds she tended to produce. Still, I never really understood how to grow CM till recently and I want one more shot at the champ, so to speak. There is a reason this plant is so highly loved in Spain, it just sucks having to find that winner.
ASH was one of those, "sounds interesting, I'll bid 10" and Bingo, I won. I have a WOS Afghan Kush Special and I dig her so I'm thinking ASH could be right up my alley. Hopefully we'll see
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Can't wait to "search for my SSH star" but I'll need to be a bit luckier than you. I really want a crazy sativa but I'll take anything of quality. I guess though if you really want to find one, Cleaning is the way to go. They just had an IBL Mango cleaning but I guess that's for legal people with room and time.
Devil is something I want to grow just to see how it will respond. I use LEDs and I have a panel that runs Illumitex LEDs. Their spectral output is supposed to accelerate flowering, I've seen a few commercial grow managers say something to that effect but can't really say that myself. It's really about if the plant responds to the light and in the case of Devil, I don't think anyone's ever flowered her under a heavy 660nm spectra and I think that and a really good veg period will eliminate that "can't grow it indoor" tag but I certainly don't think what I'm trying will make it a viable commercial strain for the indoor grower. I'm just hoping the quality that people say the indoor version lacks comes through.
Yeah I totally agree with your root critique but I do want to keep everything a bit slow and small while hunting. My limited amount of space is really dictating what I'm trying. And I like keeping bonsai mother's and I screw with roots all the time but like you say there are consequences. Still what I think is cool is how you being a more commercial grower and me being just a novice home-grower it will show a difference in how we produce our plants and how well Mr Nice's gear grows in different settings, cause nothing grows with such health and vigor like Shanti's stuff does IMHO. Oh and btw LED growers need all the lateral root growth they can get. HPS pots and containers tend to dry a little faster than LED, probably from LEDs lack of IR and how the majority of the heat produced from LED is pushed away from the grow area. So combine that with mix based growing and poor watering techniques and you end up with a mass of roots entangled on the bottom of the container.
Thanks for the input G-Berg and I Hope You Nab Some Winners.
Edit Oh yeah I forgot to add that that was a much better, more realistic explanation of what to expect from Dreamtime. Thanks for that.
. Was it something I said? LOL Anyway finishing up my Widow and it's nothing but MNS for the foreseeable future. Flowering some Dreamtime in small cups for fun. then it's on to Devil, SSH, (can't fuckin' wait to grow this), then Medicine Man. Got some ASH, Critical Mass, Shit, and more Dreamtime, (thanks again Simone!), so basically I'm set for the decade 
