Making Changes...What shall I do?

atm420

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Hi all,

I am getting myself ready to start a long process of trying to create a strain designed for my needs and am trying to figure out exactly how I want to go about it. I am open to any and all suggestions currently that anybody has to offer. I want to make some changes to the way I grow and am going back and forth as to whether I should make all the changes at once, or introduce 1 change at a time. Here are the changes I am looking to make/have made:

  • Changing from 600 watt HPS, which was dimmed to 400 watts to 2 HLG QB96s run off of a 320 watt Meanwell Driver with dimmer. This was already done, but I have not yet grown anything under it.

  • Changing from my own coco mix, which contains coco coir, worm castings, gypsum, Epsom salts, and azomite to DWC. I have never grown cannabis in DWC. It was always coco mix or soil. I have grown tomatoes and peppers DWC before so I do have some experience with it.

  • Changing from Botanicare Pure Blend Pro nutrients along with some of their additives as well to Mega Crop 2 part with Epsom salts, a silica additive, and MKP during flower. I have always had great results with Botanicare, but they are a bit pricey. I bought enough dry nutrients to last me a few years for a lot less than the cost of the Botanicare lineup I was using for 1-2 grows.
What are my intentions? I want to start searching for strains that help with many of my medical problems. I am always able to find something that helps with a couple but never more than a couple. Once I find traits that I like, use them as parent stock and create my own strain. For those who want to suggest strains, I am open to ideas of strains that help with:
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • RLS
  • Insomnia
  • Pain associated with CRPS
That last one is my primary concern. I have never found a strain that helps with the neuropathic pain associated with CRPS. It's a real bitch! Everything else is easy.
I don't have a real large grow space at the moment, enough for 1-2 plants, so this is going to take years for me, if I am even successful. I am, however very patient and I love growing. It gives me something to do and something to share with my friends. Once I have a place that I am not sharing with others, I do intend to move to a 4'x4' flower room, turn my current flower room into my mother/cloning room. and start a veg room. Right now I keep potential parent stock in a fairly small grow tent kept in a closet, and yes, I am using a blurple in that at the moment. It seems to work well for seedlings and veg. That will be changed out to an HLG QB96 once I get a driver for the board that I already have.

Here's where I am starting. I dropped seeds on January 9, 2021. The Oni's Wilson!Zero popped up sometime overnight between the 11th and the 12th. Bad Dawg's 3 Headed Dragon x Long Bottom Fighter popped up late afternoon on the 12th, and Bodhi's Dazzleberry popped up yesterday afternoon.

Suggestions please

ATM
 

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