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Morphology: Phenotypic Expression vs Structure, and a show suggestion
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Morphology: Phenotypic Expression vs Structure, and a show suggestion
Hey DGC Crew,
Here’s something I rarely see covered, that I’d like to hear your take on as growers. While we all like clones, they have to come from somewhere! Someone popped a pack of seeds, and hunted through the offspring for good phenotypical expression. This leads newer growers like myself to ask – what does that mean? I had many questions with folks, especially breeders about what a “good phenotype” is, and all of them expressed some variation on, “I don’t know, it depends on what you’re looking for.” This was frustrating, and I was finally able to verbalize better what I was really asking: In a general sense, what are good plant structures in general that you look for in the plants that you grow? Also, y’all need to have @jmystro on the main show, along with other breeding minded people like Rasta Jeff! I invite people to chime in on this and suggest others in our community who do the work in the trenches that we’d love to see on the show itself!
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I searched for this in the seeds I bought. I knew I was growing indoors so I wanted a short plant expression with low internodal spacing. This sometimes makes the plant difficult to train it also makes for a good plant to grow indoors. How frosty the buds are, resistance to disease, Size of the overall plant and flower, Color expressions, Flavor, smell, which goes into terpene expression, how much THC or CBD is in the general resulting flower etc etc. All are things that people would look for but what each person wants may be different and why you get that generic… Well it depends on what you want.
I’m a new grower as well but I put a lot of thought into all of this as I want to get into breeding for personal/medical use.
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Also the stretch rate being a low stretch variety was important to me.
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I like pooping seeds to see what is in a pack. Some like to branch (fist bump) which mite be good for scrogging and training, and some (like cheese) like not to be topped and trained. Some like dryer spaces and some can handle the humidity (white widow, lemon skunk)better and be resist mold. Some have different smells and terp profiles differ. You may like one better. Some may be sweeter, one may be more sour.( bugs like the sweeter smells) some may have wider vs thinner leaves. You pick the one you like best, that fits your style best. It’s subjective to you and your space. That’s beauty with this hobby
happy hunting.
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I to would like to see @jmystro on the show. Dudes one hard drive of knowledge in the dgc chat room.
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