Pick a BagSeed

SirGreenThumb

SirGreenThumb

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I was bored and decided to lay out 24 bagseed beans and let you all pick the one to grow along side of my aurora indica seed I'm about to germinate.
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Jogro

Jogro

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SirGreenThumb said:
Thanks. I actually decided to do a sea of green and plant them all.
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Obviously, you can grow these all at once if you choose to, but if you mean a true sea of green where you grow a number of small similar plants next to one another to create a level canopy designed to maximize yields, that probably isn't going to work so well here.

Since you've got who knows how many strains there, you can only expect that the plants will have different structures, growth rates, heights, and flowering times. If its even possible at all, getting these all into one level canopy is likely to be difficult and labor-intensive. If your idea is to try and grow small individual plants, the genetics may make that tough. . .some of these may just be stretchy and won't want to stay short.

You didn't mention where the bags in question came from or what was in them, but as another consideration, if these are bag se-eds from domestic commercial grows, its likely that many (or even all) were created by accidental pollenization from hermaphroditic pollen.

The plus there, is that most of the beans will be "feminized" and you will probably not get many (or even any) true males. Thats good, but assuming its true, the downside is that bagseed from hermie parents is itself more likely than usual to create hermie plants. If that happens and you miss even one of them (say because you're busy dealing with 19 other unknowns at once), you could end up with a seed-ed room.

I don't know how much space you have, let alone experience or time to devote to this, but trying to grow out literally 20 different unknown strains at once is a bit of a "job". Unknown strains require more attention than usual, and 20 of them at once. . .that's a lot of extra work if you want any chance of maximizing the potential of each plant. My suggestion is to try and limit the "total unknowns" to only a few per grow. That way you'll have a much easier time identifying problem plants, excellent plants, training them, getting nutes dialled in, perhaps cloning the best of them, and you won't end up with a "jungle".

Assuming there is other stuff you have that you might want to grow at the same time, personally IIWY, I'd just run a few of these at a time (EG 4-6) in numerical order.
 
amgprb

amgprb

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I have to agree 100% with Jogro. I like variety, and grow known strains. I like to do around 4 strains at once, and when making my selections, I look for strains with similar growth patterns. I have tried growing out sativas and indicas at the same time, and I only flower 4-6 plants at once, and i spent a great deal of time rearanging my grow room, tieing down and trimming plants. I have 15 years experience and I struggle at times when growing out variety, let alone 20+!

Good luck, i would suggest weeding it down to 5-6, choosing the sexiest plants with similar growth rates
 
SirGreenThumb

SirGreenThumb

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Jogro said:
Obviously, you can grow these all at once if you choose to, but if you mean a true sea of green where you grow a number of small similar plants next to one another to create a level canopy designed to maximize yields, that probably isn't going to work so well here.

Since you've got who knows how many strains there, you can only expect that the plants will have different structures, growth rates, heights, and flowering times. If its even possible at all, getting these all into one level canopy is likely to be difficult and labor-intensive. If your idea is to try and grow small individual plants, the genetics may make that tough. . .some of these may just be stretchy and won't want to stay short.

You didn't mention where the bags in question came from or what was in them, but as another consideration, if these are bag se-eds from domestic commercial grows, its likely that many (or even all) were created by accidental pollenization from hermaphroditic pollen.

The plus there, is that most of the beans will be "feminized" and you will probably not get many (or even any) true males. Thats good, but assuming its true, the downside is that bagseed from hermie parents is itself more likely than usual to create hermie plants. If that happens and you miss even one of them (say because you're busy dealing with 19 other unknowns at once), you could end up with a seed-ed room.

I don't know how much space you have, let alone experience or time to devote to this, but trying to grow out literally 20 different unknown strains at once is a bit of a "job". Unknown strains require more attention than usual, and 20 of them at once. . .that's a lot of extra work if you want any chance of maximizing the potential of each plant. My suggestion is to try and limit the "total unknowns" to only a few per grow. That way you'll have a much easier time identifying problem plants, excellent plants, training them, getting nutes dialled in, perhaps cloning the best of them, and you won't end up with a "jungle".

Assuming there is other stuff you have that you might want to grow at the same time, personally IIWY, I'd just run a few of these at a time (EG 4-6) in numerical order.
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The seeds that I have are from years of collection of seeds that came from random bags of weed that I have gotten over the years and I couldn't begin to tell you which strain is what. While I agree that I could have all sorts of different phenos, that is mainly what persuaded me to do the full sog grow, so I can see what all sort of genetics I have, not to mention the yield I will get in the end run. I also considered the likely hood around 50% being male, so I should have around 12-14 female plants..(If I'm lucky)

I also am growing 12/12 from seed, so the sexing of the plants will be pretty easy and quick. They will also be planted in solo cups or something of similar size. So I'm looking to grow only the main cola.

As for having the time.... There isn't a day that goes by that I don't spend at least an hour with my plants, so I can check them for any issues what so ever that may arise during their growth process. I'm also expecting to move at the end of my lease, so this may be my last grow for a little bit until I can get everything situated at the new place when the time comes.

I thank you all for your comments though..
 
OGEvilgenius

OGEvilgenius

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There's actually another reason SOG could be problematic - if you're flipping them and they aren't full maturity they will stretch even more than they would from clone.

That said I'm glad that you're going balls out and poppin em all. A man of my own heart. Good luck with the problems you will inevitably face (trust me!).
 
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