Thank you all for following along on this journey. 
And special thanks to @bodhi and @The_Lazy_Hippie.
In honor of mailing the seeds out to @Sebring today (all 150 packs!), here’s how this run looked on its final harvest day 73F. I thought about taking them longer, but this was the day we went camping for a week and I didn’t want to push my luck.
The whole tent was looking ready. Good fade, and the flop factor was fun. I like to flower seed runs extra long, well beyond the point of normal bud ripening. There’s no reason to take them down early. This run looked like it still had some gas left in the tank, even the little 1/2gal one, despite going past 10 weeks. Maybe reducing my inputs by half in the soil mix is gonna work out OK. Less is more! 
Pheno #7 “the fatty” got extra floppy and was ripe at day 56F, but any seeds she carried could use the extra time. This is the only one that didn’t seem to have a lot of obvious seeds. With extra big leaves and swole bracts, she was the most obvious outlier in the group. She has this blue snowcone and cologne thing and is really just an overall lovely plant. Looking forward to her seedless run. But, on that note, her clones didn’t survive (100% my fault) so she went straight into reveg after harvesting her tops. 
Pheno #8 “the shorty” kept showing that strong will to live throughout the whole run. Don’t throw out your runts, people! At least give them a chance to grow out and get cloned and see if their slow start might be something you did, like in my case here. I wouldn’t have believed it possible to get fully ripe seeds from a 1/2gal plant in water only soil, but this one proves it’s possible. She was totally jam packed with seeds, top to bottom, and they’re all ripe and viable! The stickiest and probably the frostiest out of all, she also has a super funky smell. Wet ashtray full of joints and bidis, bad breath, lemon peel, maybe some fish in the background - just a really unique scent. This one’s clones also didn’t survive (100% my fault) and so she also went straight to reveg after harvest. I dumped her in a half-full pot of unamended soil, watered, and prayed. 
Pheno #9 “the tall drink of water” looks like she is the only one that could have gone longer. She’s the tallest and most obviously “sativa” in structure, and I’m curious what she’ll smoke like next run. Throughout this run she has been the strong & silent type, just doing her thing over on the side, watching over the rest of the grow. Her grease is fresh cedar wood in smell. She has super sturdy stems and didn’t flop hardly at all, though you could tell that she would have if “encouraged” by a gust of wind, or by getting bumped into. Nothing standout, but was never a problem either. Chocked full of seeds. Clones were very hardy and vigorous despite multiple grower errors.
Pheno #10 “the feral hippie (aka the artist previously known as the praying sister)” was like what I imagine would happen if you take a young nun to lower Puna on the Big Island, ask her to live in an intentional community with a group of “wipe with this hand, eat with this hand” hippies, give her a bunch of weed and psychedelics, then get her preggo and teach her ecstatic dance. One look at her and you can tell she’s in deeeeeeeep. lol This one marches to the beat of her own drum, and that’s OK. She produced plenty of seeds, and is the most obvious kitchen herbs & curry smells, though there’s something cologne-like as well. Curious to see what she does on the sensi clone run (she cloned the best of all of these, surprisingly).
Pheno #11 “the stacker” is a beautiful plant, with big chunky buds and sturdy stems. She didn’t go too feral after pollination, and her grease is slick and sticky. At the end she developed a more lemon & blueberry muffin served on a fresh vulcanized tire rubber smell. By looking at her, you can only barely tell that she’s absolutely LOADED with seeds. Definitely one to watch for in the seedless clone run, like many have pointed out, this one and #7 would be the ones you’d pick if we only cared about looks. But, since you can’t judge a book by its cover, I’m going to wait and see how she smokes. I think she’ll be a 9wk plant, but we’ll see…
Next week, I’ll post some pics of the dried buds before shucking, as well as a sneak peak on the reveg.
couldn’t agree more.
