Bodhi Guide - Seed and Strain Discussion (Part 1)

[CocoaCoir]

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CocoaCoir's California Cultivation Continuum

Hello OG, Only a couple buds left from my last indoor run. I have spent some time trying to figure out what to grow. My partner told me that I should just grow whatever I can’t find here. Since I am in the bay area, That means that sativas and GSC hybrids are everywhere. I have just popped some Bodhi Deep Line Alchemy 16 on 10/17. I intend to grow the best Indica I can this run. Since there is no grow log on the internet for this strain, I will to document it here. It is a 10-11 weeker I am gu…

RKS, BO, cooked carrots. The buds are getting big for only a month in.

[FrostyChronic]

I got the cooked carrots during flower. I swear i didnt think much of DLA16 until it was close to harvest time. Thats when the smells really let loose! Im glad i have more clone backups. It was the only female ive found so far in my pack. I may cross it to my selection of Panama X DLA5 as well.

[CocoaCoir]

How long did the dla16 go in flower?

I also have D9Thai X DLA 5.

[FrostyChronic]

I ended up chopping at 7.5 weeks. I could have let it go longer. But I needed space and the buds were so small i wanted to get some clones in and do a proper run of DLA16. I believe they can go 9-10 weeks. Although i chopped a couple weeks early. That did NOT stop the potency or terps! I was pissed I didnt have more. But it went through my stress test like a champ. So im going to keep a clone of her around and hunt for other phenos in the rest of the pack.

[FrostyChronic]

Panama x DLA 5 I found a pheno that is very close to RKS. (my personal opionion) Dont cut my head off lol. I think a little more breeding/crossing. It could be recreated.

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gonna transplant the DLA16 I have going. Five of them in 1 gallons right now going up to a #5T as i get them ready for the flower tent in a week to 10 days I figure.
I still need to clone mine but I think there is 2 females, 2 males and an undecided. I’m not goig to transplant the males. I’ll just top them down and set them aside for now.
Red eye jedi I popped 3 seeds and have 1 female and the Cherry Pie Kush x 8g13hp NFT I also popped 3 and might have 2 girls… have to go check those.
But transplant the girls and hopefully clone them once they get settled into the flowering pots.
Hadn’t really planned on making seeds but the males will be set aside for now because I have a hard time killing males LOL

[HolyAngel]

@syzygy

You’re making me want to cull my TS mom & scrap the current F2 project.

No don’t do that! I wanna make my own version of Triple Sunshine using my SSDD girl, if that tells you anything of what I think about them

Plus that TS A girl looks so nice

[ramblinrose]

@OG619

Shit I thought i just scored when I found a few pks of the Madre Azuls earlier this week. Did you only pop those 2 seeds?

@syzygy

I popped 3 and 1 was a male. Again there were stresses present such as possible dark period interruption, rootbound pots, dehydration etc. Not severe enough to make the REJ , BBHP, or SSDD freak out, but the MA had to go. I think @ramblinrose (?) grew some out without issues.

I had 1/4 be female, it was a stretchier pheno with strawberry size nugs. It did have slight intersex issues with some mid-late nanners, but I did have a few other plants with the same issue that go, so maybe something on my end - under-watering maybe. That said - it’s one of my favorite smokes I’ve grown - really tasty lemon herbal (basil?) flavor and an old school creeper high that keeps getting higher in waves. The smell/taste really last too, the jar is well over a year old and still smells and tastes excellent.

[OG619]

Thanks for the description it definitely sounds interesting.

[Greenhighlander]

I only have the one plant to go by , but based on that plant I would say yes.
The lone female from the pack of testers was a Loompa’s Headband plant with added strawberry terps.
Strawberry was prevalent in both the smell and taste.

[minitiger]

@Greenhighlander

The difference in 50-60 is quite remarkable. It is that much more potent , more complex effect

Hm. Okay, that’s interesting. The first time I grew them (three females), I chopped them all on day 49. The second time I let them grow a few days longer, like I said, but my concern was that they’d smoke even heavier if I continued to let them grow to, like, day 60 or whatever.

@Greenhighlander

But ya pop and OP that pack

Haha, uh… Whenever I do get around to planting that pack, that’s the plan, but since I’ve never made seeds before and feel a little, uh… insecure about it, I’ve just been sitting on them. I would like to preserve them, though, for sure. I just don’t wanna fuck it up haha.

@Greenhighlander

I call it as I see it. DON’t like it ? how about you fuck off and put me on ignore ya fucking clown?

Dude, come on. Just ignore it.

[Growgrassblowglass]

i really wanted to jump on the DCseedexchange auction for some red lotus this past weekend but i know i wouldnt grow it out for a while so i let it pass

[Tessellated]

How much did that red lotus end up going for ? Lol

[zephyr]

@BackyardBoogie420

I find it really interesting people talking about the old Snow Lotus and Appy crosses in a negative light, but completely overlook their purpose! Bodhi filled a very specifc and important niche at the time. Using those males on popular clones made them 1000% better for running as large full term plants outdoors! That’s how I was introduced to Bodhis gear, and 5+ lb plants in 200 gallon pots on 99 plant Prop 215 farms. Back then, Bodhi pounds pretty much always sold at a premium. And usually made some of the best hash. So running a couple little plants and saying its obsolete or whatever is really overlooking the real point of them, and how incredibly valuable they were in the full term scene.

bingo!
This was what drew me to bodhi’s work as well. I was growing for personal medical use and a few patients, and I needed to get the most out of my plant count. I miss easy high yielding outdoor growing in california.

I basically had to relearn everything for outdoor here in the PNW, and had to start growing indoors as well because I couldn’t do sungrown all year round anymore.

bodhi’s work still totally kicks ass here.
Indoors and outdoors.

[zephyr]

On the subject of herms, none of bodhi’s named lines have hermed on me.

I run a very simple organic grow and never check ph or anything like that.

The only herms I’ve found was when I was testing for bodhi, and he never released anything that hermed in my grow. they were sterile herms that didn’t form seeds.

And I absolutely loved some of those lines, and grew the cuts for a long time. None of them self seeded. Even if I gave the high rave reviews, that wasn’t good enough if they had sterile bananas or weird growth traits. None of those lines were released, which was the right call.

that just goes to show his standards when it comes to stability and making sure he was giving growers reliable strains.

I think he wanted to get testers who grew with different styles and ability levels so that he could make sure that whatever their environment and methods were, the plants would perform pretty much as expected.

Which is a pretty high goal considering the wide variety of genetics he works with, including landraces that are very challenging and require very specific environmental conditions, light spectrums, or soil mixes in order to grow those hierlooms in their pure forms.

And that’s really what’s great about bodhi’s work in my opinion. He takes stuff that’s either hard to get or hard to grow, blends it into something new and unique, and makes it accessible and attainable in a form that can be utilized successfully by just about anyone.

[yardgrazer]

Low 90s if I recall correctly

[zephyr]

Also, I don’t think bodhi’s males are just a vehicle for the mother plants.

I specifically sought out the bodhi hybrids made with clone onlys that I was already familiar with.

I have had very good luck being able to find the medicinal qualities I needed that way. And in some cases the plants were really much better- hardier and easier to grow than the mother.

But I have also been really surprised by some of the outcomes. Sometimes they are something completely new and different.

I often I get those ‘brand new’ phenos alongside plants that lean to the mother or father. It’s a good blend, and I can usually find what I need in a relatively small plant count.

In my experience anyway. Maybe I’ve been lucky with the strains I have chosen to grow, but the quality has been high across the board.

[Jamescoldflame]

See…we should of just kept talking about herms…now look where we are.

[zephyr]

aaaaaand It’s time for part twoooooooooooooo!

see you all on the new one:

Bodhi Guide - Seed and Strain Discussion (Part 2)

Continuing the discussion from Bodhi Guide - Seed and Strain Discussion (Part 1) - #5179 by advancedbuffalo. Previous discussions: Bodhi Guide - Seed and Strain Discussion (Part 1)