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Zkittlez S1 pheno hunt, found the one
ran 12 Zkittlez S1 beans this cycle specifically to find a keeper and i think i finally have her. popped all 12, grew them out to week 3 flower, then culled the obvious duds by nose alone. ended up with 4 worth finishing.
pheno 3 was the one everybody in my group kept walking back to. room temp drying, 60 day cure, and she opened up into this layered tropical thing. like guava skin on the front, then this dank grape candy underneath, and there's a weird almost floral finish that i can't fully place. passion fruit maybe. whatever it is, it's loud in the best way.
phenos 1 and 4 were more of a classic candy grape smell, sweet and clean, not bad at all but kind of one-dimensional once you really sit with them. pheno 2 smelled like straight up fruit punch candy, which some people love. i found it a little flat. just not complex enough for me to justify the space.
the cure on pheno 3 right now is sitting at 62 days and the smell profile is still evolving. i keep opening the jar expecting it to peak and it just keeps going. that's usually the sign of something worth cloning and holding onto. already took cuts off her before the chop, she's staying in the lineup.
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pheno 3 sounds like a winner, that layered profile you're describing is exactly what makes a hunt worth doing. the passion fruit note is interesting, i get those floral finishes sometimes from genetics that lean more terpinolene-heavy and it can take a while to fully show up in the jar.
one thing i'd add, since you mentioned the smell is still evolving at 62 days, don't be too quick to call peak. i've had jars that shifted significantly between day 60 and day 90. the floral thing specifically tends to get more defined later in the cure rather than earlier, at least in my experience.
also curious, were growth structure and yield similar across the 4 keepers or did pheno 3 differ there too. sometimes the standout nose comes attached to a more finicky plant and that matters if you're building a lineup around her.
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