Jackalope
Well-Known Member
We all know of pheno's and that strains have more than one of them. What a lot of people don't know is just how vast the amounts of phenos that can come from one strain. The main reason people don't know is that most will never grow enough seeds from one strain to see them all.
I will use a strain called Trailer Trash Betty my mentor bread as a example. Made from a cross of AK-47 and White Widow. Yep that's is what White Russian is. That is WHY it was bred. At the time White Russian was one of the strongest strains out there. Other things were crossed in over time to make it Trailer Trash Betty. Thing is the guy that made them has grown thousands of these plants. He flowers 45 to 50 females at a time which gives him a broad spectrum of plants to look at. Like most strains out there today it is not a stable hybrid. Same thing you will find in lots of the F-1 hybrids of today. There are tons of genetics involved in the making of them. That means almost anything can happen over time.
Like I mentioned thousand of plants have been grow over the last 20 years. In all those plants surprises still show up. He even found a Strawberry pheno that showed up once. He has been searching for it again every since. It has not showed back up. Different levels of terpene's and frost are always changing things. Alas Trailer Trash Betty is now on the side lines watching her offspring do the same damn thing LOL. While not as many plants have been grown from the new hybrids new shit still shows up to impress.
So how does that equate to us small time growers. Mostly it doesn't LOL. Too hard to compare plants that are not next to each other. 2 things need to be considered knowing this. Is that great mother plant you have the best pheno or the best pheno you have found? What the hell do you do when you find a 1 in a thousand pheno. I have lost 2 that I can remember.
Here is how I see it. 1 grow lots of new regular genetics. The more you grow the more you will find. I say regular only because there is so much more that will shine through. Even those Blueberries and Cinderellas are going to have something special show up sooner or later. Other strains will have much more variety.
The second one is where it really gets tricky. What to do with that special plant when you find one. Most of us do not have a place for more plants. Re-veg is the "Key" here place or not. It can't continue if it is not alive. You very seldom know that they are great early enough to take clones. Once you get it regenerated you can save it for a mother if there is room. At least you can now get some clones to grow. The legal world changes things some. If you find a special plant in a legal state. Try and share it. Not only is there a chance you could loose the genetics. Others want to grow great plants also. Someday one of them will become the new clone only strain everyone wants.
I know I really didn't answer much. Mostly I wanted to get this out of my brain LMAO. The thing here is keep growing and keep looking. That strain you think you know might still have surprises. Remember the best weed you have ever grown is still out there or in a seed in your fridge.
I will use a strain called Trailer Trash Betty my mentor bread as a example. Made from a cross of AK-47 and White Widow. Yep that's is what White Russian is. That is WHY it was bred. At the time White Russian was one of the strongest strains out there. Other things were crossed in over time to make it Trailer Trash Betty. Thing is the guy that made them has grown thousands of these plants. He flowers 45 to 50 females at a time which gives him a broad spectrum of plants to look at. Like most strains out there today it is not a stable hybrid. Same thing you will find in lots of the F-1 hybrids of today. There are tons of genetics involved in the making of them. That means almost anything can happen over time.
Like I mentioned thousand of plants have been grow over the last 20 years. In all those plants surprises still show up. He even found a Strawberry pheno that showed up once. He has been searching for it again every since. It has not showed back up. Different levels of terpene's and frost are always changing things. Alas Trailer Trash Betty is now on the side lines watching her offspring do the same damn thing LOL. While not as many plants have been grown from the new hybrids new shit still shows up to impress.
So how does that equate to us small time growers. Mostly it doesn't LOL. Too hard to compare plants that are not next to each other. 2 things need to be considered knowing this. Is that great mother plant you have the best pheno or the best pheno you have found? What the hell do you do when you find a 1 in a thousand pheno. I have lost 2 that I can remember.
Here is how I see it. 1 grow lots of new regular genetics. The more you grow the more you will find. I say regular only because there is so much more that will shine through. Even those Blueberries and Cinderellas are going to have something special show up sooner or later. Other strains will have much more variety.
The second one is where it really gets tricky. What to do with that special plant when you find one. Most of us do not have a place for more plants. Re-veg is the "Key" here place or not. It can't continue if it is not alive. You very seldom know that they are great early enough to take clones. Once you get it regenerated you can save it for a mother if there is room. At least you can now get some clones to grow. The legal world changes things some. If you find a special plant in a legal state. Try and share it. Not only is there a chance you could loose the genetics. Others want to grow great plants also. Someday one of them will become the new clone only strain everyone wants.
I know I really didn't answer much. Mostly I wanted to get this out of my brain LMAO. The thing here is keep growing and keep looking. That strain you think you know might still have surprises. Remember the best weed you have ever grown is still out there or in a seed in your fridge.