Budwulf
In Bloom
What's up growmies? I have been away for a couple of years just focusing on the grow and the plants. I'm in sort of an odd conundrum and wanted to get some advice from folks who know what I am going through.
My initial threads on here have been detailing packs that I pop and what I have found. I never kept clones as I wasn't confident in my cloning abilities at the time and I just wanted to pop pack after pack. That's well and fun but I have a wonderful seed collection and had the burning urge to start digging through S1 populations from CSI Humboldt. I took the last few years to really work on my cloning and become confident enough to pop important packs and know I can take cuts for keepers. I did just that and have been popping various S1 packs to start seeing some wonderful cannabis and build my headstash (I have no access to cuts therefore S1 populations are my only door to the gene pool of legendary cuts).
During this time I have stayed away from forums, IG, and stopped listening to the Potcast as religiously as I did. Finally a week or so ago I decided to listen to the latest Bodhi episode and I was really inspired by his words to come back to the community. Shortly after I found out some older legends have passed on and it really took me back. I had been planning to pop a few chem 91, TK, and Chem D s1 seeds to find keepers but I feel as though I need to refocus right now on other seed lines. Life is short and time is fleeting, years pile on and seeds just stay snug in the freezer.
Now what I really want to do is preservation runs, seed increases, and open pollination runs. Disseminate these seeds out to the community for others to continue these various lines. I can't do that yet. No safe outdoor space and still only one grow room, any breeding in there would be a nightmare. So that has to wait. That is where I am a little lost at the moment. I guess I just don't know to what to grow. Part of the problem is that I have my seeds in a pelican case and there's no organization so it's a giant mess. I would like to organize them into zip lock bags with desiccant packs but I don't have a deep freezer where I can reach in and move stuff around without worrying about temperature change. They are stored in a normal freezer so any digging I do is typically done in short 30-45 second bursts as I don't want much temperature fluctuation (more than already present in a freezer). I do have a seed list but I stopped updating it a few years ago, granted my seed buying as significantly decreased since as well.
What should I do? I feel stuck between the varieties I grabbed for headstash hunting and those I grabbed to preserve. I feel as though there is no middle ground. Maybe I feel guilty about popping modern lines in a time when we really need more diversity?
My initial threads on here have been detailing packs that I pop and what I have found. I never kept clones as I wasn't confident in my cloning abilities at the time and I just wanted to pop pack after pack. That's well and fun but I have a wonderful seed collection and had the burning urge to start digging through S1 populations from CSI Humboldt. I took the last few years to really work on my cloning and become confident enough to pop important packs and know I can take cuts for keepers. I did just that and have been popping various S1 packs to start seeing some wonderful cannabis and build my headstash (I have no access to cuts therefore S1 populations are my only door to the gene pool of legendary cuts).
During this time I have stayed away from forums, IG, and stopped listening to the Potcast as religiously as I did. Finally a week or so ago I decided to listen to the latest Bodhi episode and I was really inspired by his words to come back to the community. Shortly after I found out some older legends have passed on and it really took me back. I had been planning to pop a few chem 91, TK, and Chem D s1 seeds to find keepers but I feel as though I need to refocus right now on other seed lines. Life is short and time is fleeting, years pile on and seeds just stay snug in the freezer.
Now what I really want to do is preservation runs, seed increases, and open pollination runs. Disseminate these seeds out to the community for others to continue these various lines. I can't do that yet. No safe outdoor space and still only one grow room, any breeding in there would be a nightmare. So that has to wait. That is where I am a little lost at the moment. I guess I just don't know to what to grow. Part of the problem is that I have my seeds in a pelican case and there's no organization so it's a giant mess. I would like to organize them into zip lock bags with desiccant packs but I don't have a deep freezer where I can reach in and move stuff around without worrying about temperature change. They are stored in a normal freezer so any digging I do is typically done in short 30-45 second bursts as I don't want much temperature fluctuation (more than already present in a freezer). I do have a seed list but I stopped updating it a few years ago, granted my seed buying as significantly decreased since as well.
What should I do? I feel stuck between the varieties I grabbed for headstash hunting and those I grabbed to preserve. I feel as though there is no middle ground. Maybe I feel guilty about popping modern lines in a time when we really need more diversity?
She has no knowledge of what any of the packs are so I'll just pull out maybe 20 of them and tell her to pick 5. I make a personal commitment to soak whatever she selected. I've had great success with this method because it really forces you to grow something you maybe never would've got to but it's still in your "grow this" list. My lists are constantly changing and this method keeps that ship moving along.
