Have any strains or particular phenos really caught your eye? It's fun to pop seeds and see what comes up. I kind of grew up being taught by elders more how to commercially grow (but with love) and there wasn't any seed-popping going on. Granted back then, it was kind of the rough age of seeds. After SSSC and Sensi and before the good breeders of today.
Thats about when I started growing too. The old Marc Emery, Overgrow.com days
The recent strains that I have been most impressed with from seed would be Modified Mints from SinCity. I popped 2 packs of those and found some very unique, very dank plants. They lack a bit in the production department, but there are some ultra dense, frosty, and very stoney phenos in those packs. What I lose in production on the Modified Mints, I make up for with GPS Dreamcatcher. Dreamcatcher is fun to pheno hunt with too. I have found a couple of frost monsters in the DC packs. Giant forearm size colas too. Almost every plant is a potential keeper, if you have the headroom. They get absolutely huge. Reserva Privada Sour Kush has some stellar phenos in there as well. They do have an occasional shitty plant also, but I found some very nice phenos in the 18 fem beans I popped. But the Sour Kush gets massive also, so beware. Cherry Gorilla by In-House has some really cool looking red calyxed plants that are very dank and smell like cherry cough drops. Chemmy Jones by Connoisseur Genetics may have some of the most potent plants I have ever grown. And I got a free pack of Cali Connection Larry OG many years ago, which I recently popped just because the pack was so old. I found a plant in there that has the most amazing smell of any plant I have grown, including Purple Punch. It smells like you made Wapatui with kerosene. I got 3 really nice plants from the CC Larry OG in fact, but I only kept the one with the crazy smell.
I would also note that the American breeders are putting out much better genetics than the European breeders these days. I dont buy any European beans these days. Although DNA has always done me right.
Edit: I also had good luck with Cannaventure Cookiewreck
