March Madness Idea for Indoor Fun

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Chapl

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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!
 
DrOgkush

DrOgkush

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Sound like a giant waste of seeds.
Are you saying plant 25 seeds and thin them out to the “national championship” strain. As In culling the other 24 plants? Lol. Who’s each strains “opponent?” To determine elimination.
You mean accidental deaths? Outta 25 seeds. 25 will live. So that wouldn work for me lol.
You would have to flower all 25 to finish before even starting your “elimination” process.
 
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Chapl

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Could be structured in different ways, depending on the grower and what seeds are available to the grower and whats the interest level in those seeds- i have looked at the tournament as more of a total pool with selections making it to the next round. With regulars, about half get knocked out for being males. For me, i like entering freebies and other gift seeds into this that haven’t gotten popped, doesn’t have to be a large number of starting seeds either
 
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Chapl

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Yes it kind of is, but instead of one pack being popped for pheno hunting, a seed or two from several different packs are popped, in my version seeds that may not get a chance otherwise. If sixteen seeds are started, maybe fourteen pop (or less if older seed), then early on there is one that doesn’t do well, so we are down to thirteen. Out of the thirteen, say seven are male, leaving six. The six will probably be from four or five different sources. So getting close, then one of them herms and one is too tall or something like that. But what most likely happens is that the final four are slightly random. Maybe the grower keeps a final six or eight up to the grower. The main point is starting with 1-2 seeds from multiple sources that are just sitting there year after year
 
DrOgkush

DrOgkush

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Chapl said:
Yes it kind of is, but instead of one pack being popped for pheno hunting, a seed or two from several different packs are popped, in my version seeds that may not get a chance otherwise. If sixteen seeds are started, maybe fourteen pop (or less if older seed), then early on there is one that doesn’t do well, so we are down to thirteen. Out of the thirteen, say seven are male, leaving six. The six will probably be from four or five different sources. So getting close, then one of them herms and one is too tall or something like that. But what most likely happens is that the final four are slightly random. Maybe the grower keeps a final six or eight up to the grower. The main point is starting with 1-2 seeds from multiple sources that are just sitting there year after year
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You must buy really poor genetics or stress you plants often.
If I sprout 16 seeds. 14-16 will sprout. 14-16 will grow. And all mine are fems. So all will be female. As far as herms. Iv never had that problem with anything other than bagseed.
So for me. I’d be stuck with 14-16 plants to maturity. Lol. Sounds fun if your playing games. But I don’t have the space to play games and expect to throw away seeds. Each seed I sow. I plan on cloning and getting the most for my buck. So I’d have to rule myself out sadly. But for someone who had the seeds to throw away. I’d sub watch and vote lol.
 
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Chapl

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Yeah I totally get that, and I don’t think this is a good fit for fems generally or where expensive seed investments are in play. The herm issue for me comes more from sativa landrace type genetics, or from seeds from friends, but is minimal overall. My germ rate trends around 90% but is never 100% when multiple varieties are popped. Generally my point is that starting with 16 regs, achieving a final four is not too hard, but with a dialed in fem grow i can see how that would not make sense and be wasteful.

Let me say this- “selection sunday” can be a ton of fun. I see solo cup challenges that seem fun, and there are versions of this that could be really interesting.
 
a mongo frog

a mongo frog

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Chapl said:
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!
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Can you start a March Madness pool so we can join and win prizes!!!!!
 
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Chapl

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Bagseed would be perfect for this kind of thing. The March Madness concepts we are going for are: a tournament of some kind, a brief chaotic/exciting start, and the chance for an underdog to win it all...winning as in becoming one of the growers favorites down the line
 
Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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I don't throw plants away!!! All seeds I plant are fems,so to me,that's potentially throwing away some fire just because it doesn't look as good as another plant... I'm coming to the game though!!!
 
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Chapl

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Frank Nitty said:
I don't throw plants away!!! All seeds I plant are fems,so to me,that's potentially throwing away some fire just because it doesn't look as good as another plant... I'm coming to the game though!!!
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Yeah I hear you, my idea was mostly with regular seeds in mind.

There could be a version of this with fems whereby the brackets and selection down to a final four would be worked out on paper like filling out a bracket and then finalists are selected for sowing, so no seeds/plants necessarily lost. What i find valuable in the exercise is ending up with something i may not have planned on, like something from a freebie pack or another option that might get overlooked otherwise
 
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Chapl

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One other idea, just put a seedname next to each team on the actual basketball brackte and then the finalists get popped
 
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