didn't mean to be pricky. Was also baked, might have formulated poorly ...
I will check out what denver at al have to offer.
And I might be not so up to date and my experience is from quite a while back. But I don't have to grow Skunk or BigBud to start and get my first experiences either.
Shit aint rocket science, stuff is called "weed" for a reason. "Growing bud" is not really what I am after. I think I am ready for genetics and breeding and that fascinates me more.
So if I get back into "growing", I might as well set up right.
Otherwise I might find great phenotypes of for example fathers and can't keep their genetic material and just have to toss them because I am not equipped to harvest pollen and use it or keep the father plants without pollinating the females. That would be shit.
I might as well just buy 5 feminized seeds per grow and only focus on bud production (and saving Private Hermi) until I find a "perfect" mother of any of the strains I'm trying, which is not what I am about.
I'm not interested in commercial strains or "surefire production".
Even the AK 47 I was originally thinking about because of its reputation of being stable, sativa heavy and potent. Not really its production, which of course is nice, too.(and I might not have made that clear enough earlier... sometimes it's hard to communicate with just text xD )
The C99 is the new frontrunner mainly because it is a sativa-heavy hybrid that is also associated with a fruity taste/smell and sativa-heavy. Its growth properties are also insane.
My oppinion is that it doesn't hurt a gene pool if you have excellence in any way...
Just taking a stab here at combinations of reported genetic properties and am pretty pleased to have found a reputable seedbank in peakseedsBC that has a combination of strains that I find promising.
I don't need much bud, it doesn't even have to be that insanely potent. I want special bud, good bud.
The color is just the cherry on top in all that. Most interested I am in Sativa-heavy and sweet smell/flavor/aroma.
With the set-up I have in mind, I might be able to get the best of all the traits I prefer in the long run.
And in the Short-Run have all the traits I am looking for, just spread across 2-3 strains (blueberry, C99, sweet skunk). Obviously if that just doesn't work out as I have in mind, I won't continue to buy the same seeds/strains but try out other ones...
I have heard, again, that my best bet at this point might actually be to start with a hybrid like Blue Satellite and inbreed the right phenotypes... That's why just buying a whole bunch of those "old beans" for a good price is still not completely off the table...
Either way, that should keep me busy for a couple of years and once I have these strains set up for breeding, I can look into other strains from other seedbanks. Maybe get something more pure like a landrace Thai or any good Sativa (fruity... color...). Grow that for a bit and do some backcrossing to stabilize my strains.
If they are stable, I could go the other rout and buy some of those "old" gene stocks and do some crossing with more "pure" variants (DJ's Blueberry or Serious/BOG Bubblegum) or some other great, fitting hybrids (such as SOL Blue Satellite).
But yeh, again, if it wasn't clear yet: This isn't going to be anything about supplying quanitity.
It will be very small scale, soil, organic, not too much with the nutes, I just plan to invest time
It is about breeding and finding that elusive strain... A coloration, fruity/sweet/bubblegum/berry flavor/aroma that can't be ignored or contested. With a potent, sativa-heavy effect.
