I have been dabbling with a version of this idea and thought I might put it out there for growers who are primarily interested in having fun with their grow.
The idea of a March Madness is to start 1-2 seeds from different packs and whittle down over the course of say eight total grow weeks to a “final four”. The settings of your tournament can be adjusted. For me, what this does is force me to fan through packs a bit and try things I might not otherwise, and in that process find something great I might return to or keep.
Say you have a dozen packs or more, as well as some freebies, and another year passes and they haven’t gotten popped at all. Each pack gets an entry slip into the tourney bowl. There are a total number of slots. There is a “selection Sunday”. Maybe dice are rolled, who knows. The contestants are picked, and germinated at the same time. The contest has begun.
Some seeds won’t germinate, the field narrows. Maybe at each transplant another Selection Sunday happens. Perhaps each round the selection criteria are different.
Perhaps the grower picks top seeds at the beginning and gets to pop an extra seed of those choices, and maybe seeds that don’t germ allow the grower to choose a fill-in replacement.
Well that’s the basic idea, a way to throw seeds from different packs in the ring together that never get a chance to show their magic. Clearly there are limitations with this but i did a version of it last year and really enjoyed it.
Final thought- regular seeds are ideal because it helps to get a bunch of males for whittling down the pool!
The idea of a March Madness is to start 1-2 seeds from different packs and whittle down over the course of say eight total grow weeks to a “final four”. The settings of your tournament can be adjusted. For me, what this does is force me to fan through packs a bit and try things I might not otherwise, and in that process find something great I might return to or keep.
Say you have a dozen packs or more, as well as some freebies, and another year passes and they haven’t gotten popped at all. Each pack gets an entry slip into the tourney bowl. There are a total number of slots. There is a “selection Sunday”. Maybe dice are rolled, who knows. The contestants are picked, and germinated at the same time. The contest has begun.
Some seeds won’t germinate, the field narrows. Maybe at each transplant another Selection Sunday happens. Perhaps each round the selection criteria are different.
Perhaps the grower picks top seeds at the beginning and gets to pop an extra seed of those choices, and maybe seeds that don’t germ allow the grower to choose a fill-in replacement.
Well that’s the basic idea, a way to throw seeds from different packs in the ring together that never get a chance to show their magic. Clearly there are limitations with this but i did a version of it last year and really enjoyed it.
Final thought- regular seeds are ideal because it helps to get a bunch of males for whittling down the pool!
