Grow #2 Plans.......The Pheno Hunt.
I kinda feel chatty today, so sorry in advance.
Getting bored sitting at home recovering from surgery for the past 4 weeks. Yesterday the wife allowed me to cut down a small hedge as long as the kids loaded it in the truck for me. I am not allowed to lift more than 10lbs. Which sucks, especially when we go to stores and I just stand there while my 5'3" wife is loading bails of peat on our cart or into my truck. Pretty embarrassing to say the least.
But anyways I'll tell you all my plan as it stands now for my next grow.
As many of you are aware, I will be trying my luck with a "Living Soil" for the first time ever. But I am not calling it organic as some of my products are not officially labelled as "Organic" but as far as I am concerned my non-organic perlite, mushroom compost and sheep compost are going to achieve the same result as their organic counterparts that just aren't available in my area. All my additives will however be organic when I build my soil and top dress in the future as they are available here.
The strain is going to be Zombie Kush by Ripper Seeds from Spain. A great strain from a great breeder.
This will be my 5th Zombie Kush run, I love this strain. I am going to pop 5 seeds here soon as this will be a pheno run and will take some time to complete.
I am going to set up a 2x4 tent and grow all five seedlings in it until I can cut two clones from each plant. The plants grown from seed will be my potential mother plants. The clones will be rooted and the healthiest of each pheno will go into the big grow room to be grown out. The others will be gifted to friends or tossed in the compost.
The 5 clones will eventually be planted in 20 gallon fabric pots and grown in my living soil. I am not going to SCROG this grow. Since it's a pheno Hunt I want to be able to assess their structure and be able to give them room to do their thing without the overcrowding my current SCROG grow is experiencing. Also I want this grow to move along quicker and don't want to spend a long time in veg. I will still top them once and use some LST to open up the plants but not a lot.
Since this is my 5th run of this strain, I already know what I am looking for and if I find it, awesome, if I don't, I'll grow out the mother's SCROG style in my 3rd grow and cut my losses.
If anyone has any questions or suggestions please let me know. I would be more than happy to discuss them.
