Hi all,
This is my first post on riu. I have been growing for about a year and a half, and it's been quite a journey so far. I've learned a lot since I first started, and hope to continue learning more about this fascinating plant as the years pass.
I'll give a brief summary of my experience before the experience with bodhi.
I started in a 2x4x5 tent in a closet, trying to be discreet. I was also cheap and had a mars led, along with fox farm soil, and kc brains northern lights seeds. It was amazing just to be growing, but I knew there was much room left for improvement.
I now have two 2x4 tents on a y splitter along side a 4x8 gorilla shorty grow tent with it's own fan. I've built 2 - 200w led cree cob bars for the two 2x4 tents and have two 600w hps at 450w covering the 4x4 areas of the 4x8 tent. I veg in two closets with a 200w cob bar for each, that can hold enough plants for perpetual in all 3 tents. I also switched to notill with coot's mix recently, which has been absolutely incredible.
After growing out kc brains, I knew I had to get quality genetics. I prefer Indica (mainly at night for sleep), so I ended up going with rare dankness cornbread og. I also received two regular grape ox, and 3 501st og, all from rare dankness for free. I grew all of them out and currently have two phenos of cornbread in the perpetual cycle. One is a shorter indica leaning, and the other pheno is a lankier og type.
I had read so many great things about bodhi, and after reading a large amount of this thread, I decided bodhi was the next breeder to try. I purchased a pack of granola funk (gsc forum x wookie 15) and a pack of space monkey (gg4 x wookie 15) and got a free pack of snow temple from James Bean Co. I was looking for a good sativa/hybrid, as I had already found my indica keepers.
I planted 6 granola funk at first as I didn't have too much space for pheno hunting. I got 4 females and 2 males. Out of the 4 females I found 2 phenotypes that I was REALLY impressed with and kept.
This is the first phenotype .
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This is the second (and my favorite) phenotype.
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I planted 6 space monkey seeds after, and have two females out of six. One is a few weeks away from harvest, the other flipped 3 weeks ago. I did single cola plants for pheno hunting and it definitely isn't ideal for expressing the plants full potential. They don't look great now, but I will continue running both. I may post a picture of each one later tonight when the lights flip on.
I'm now looking to do some more pheno hunting. I will be planting 6 seeds at a time. I currently have 6 granola funk, 6 space monkey, and 12 snow temple. I was thinking it would be nice to have a good stock of seeds, so possibly planting 6 seeds of each strain and keeping 6 seeds in storage. So it's either snow temple, or deplete my stock of space monkey or granola funk. I was looking at james bean and a couple of crosses caught my eye. I want to get a hashplant cross and an Appalachia cross.
The 88g13HP crosses that I was looking at are:
1.) Blueberry Hashplant
Blue Dream x 88g13HP
2.) Chem Kesey
91 Skunk x 88g13HP
3.) Heavenly HP
Bubba Katsu x 88g13HP
4.) Old School HP
PNW HP X 88g13HP
and the two appalachia crosses:
1.) Sunshine Day Dream
Bubbashine x appalachia
2.) Bingo Pajama
Kudra x Appalachia.
I would love some feedback as to what I should buy/do. I will be posting more pictures and updates here and possibly starting a grow journal. Should I find more granola funk phenos or try out some hashplant or appalachia crosses?? Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Thank you!