The spreadsheets you have going are top notch as well.. you really have some great note taking and am sure all this information/experience if going to be gold! I'm trying to hop around ya'lls hydro journals as I know next to nothing about hydro. CA's here to learn
I love spreadsheets. It seems an intuitive way for me to calculate and track things. And they quickly prove that nearly all errors are of my own making...
Are you shooting for finding a good strain with good genetics that you want to grow out for a couple of years? Or are you someone who just loves different strains & buds all the time? Regardless, I love both situations. Have a good one GreatLife
and again, killer smokin' garden!!!
-CA215
I just started growing again after a multi-year hiatus - I finally have the time and space to do it right. I typically have run three different strains to prevent myself from getting tired of any one. I like a real strong sleepy type of high. An active daytime high. And a sorta in-between (which is where White Widow fits perfectly) type of high - one where you can sit on the couch to watch TV and yet still be mentally active.
When I started this grow - I went back to the two strains that I love - Silver Haze and White Widow. The version of White Widow that I received is awesome - absolutely great to grow, easily managed size, good (not great) yield, great taste and smell, and the smoke starts off with a strong mind high and finishes with a nice body buzz. It is a keeper for sure.
Silver Haze is very hard to find now, but there seems to be literally a thousand varieties based off of this. The one that I ordered was called Super Silver Haze - but it is very different from the Silver Haze that I grew previously. After growing and sampling, it won't make the cut. It is not at all like the Silver Haze that I am familiar with, takes longer to flower, yields less, and the high is not as good.
With this initial order I also picked up a new strain - Light of Jah. My first plant is in the final days of flowering - so I haven't gotten to cure and sample yet. But I can already state that indoors and in a tent is no way to grow this variety - it is simply too large and leggy. So I was forced into making an emergency SCROG to hold this plant down. That is in my first grow journal on this site. I have no way of judging - but the yield looks VERY large.
I have a second plant growing in another tent - this one I scrogged pretty much immediately and it is much better behaved. It is still five weeks away from harvest - but the yield looks like it will top the first plant easily. So no complaints about the yield.
But I have to admit - the smoke is going to have to be pretty damned good for me to want to continue growing this plant. A lot of trouble and mediocre smoke is not what I am looking for.
So I am auditioning for two more plant varieties...
I want an excellent Sativa with a shorter flowering time - something 10 weeks or less. The yield doesn't have to be great - but it should be good. The taste must be very, very good. I shouldn't be FORCED to SCROG this variety to keep it under control - although I don't mind SCROGGING for higher yield. The candidates for this role are the Bay 11, Cinderella 99, Sour Diesel, Silver Kush, Sweet Tai, and Amnesia.
I am also looking for a very strong, mostly pure indica. The yield must be great. The taste must be great. The high must be strong enough to cause my mind to shut down - and I have a very active mind. The candidates for this role are the Darkstar, Green Poison, and HJ 33.
The two cheeses I am growing at the request of a friend who helps me with the growing, trimming, and etc. I will grow one of these with each grow that I do from these seeds. He gets the yield from those - I have tried cheese before and wasn't all that impressed. I could have just gotten a bad batch or something - so I will sample his to ensure that I am not interested.
The White Shark 33 looks to be a very interesting upgrade to my beloved White Widow. This is a mixture of WW and one of the sativa phenos of Jack Herer. But I have to admit it will take a lot to knock the WW out of it's current status.
I also have an auto. Never grown one before and thought I would give it a try. But after reading up on autos... I might just kill this one. They seem like a great idea for outdoors, or in a tent dedicated to themselves (you could run a strong light 24 hours a day), but mixed in with what I am growing right now - it doesn't seem to make sense. And I don't want to flower this under 12 hours of light - which is the only thing available. I could stick it in with the mothers - 18 hours under a 400W. But I am afraid it might get too big for that tent.
And finally, I have to admit that after growing out the LOJ - and reading many posts on here... I was truly just curious how far the world of seeds has come since last I grew. Growing out a bunch of seeds from breeders that I am not familiar with seemed like a good way to get myself reacquainted. A lot of really good genetics have now "escaped" from California and been bred into different lines by some really good breeders from all over the world.
I didn't decide to undertake growing this many plants just for fun - although I am hoping it will be! It really has been an ongoing hassle researching which plants I should grow out of all those free seeds - and which ones might go well in a tent together. I much prefer to grow one or, at most, two varieties in a tent. So who knows - I could end up with a mess like I did on my first grow this round. But I am hoping (optimistically!) that I end up with a smorgasbord of different tastes and highs to try out - and that one or two of them become keepers.
You have great knowledge over your girls, will be around to watch your grow fall into place Great 
That green poison is thriving!! What a contender 
Keep up the good work bro!
