What's the best way to do a pheno hunt/seed selection?

Hi,
I'm about to do a relatively big seed run (about 100 seeds). My goal is to find a handful of the best keepers to continue with. I have around 35-40 seed packs of 5-6 fem seeds each, all different strains/many breeders. I'm not looking to do any breeding, just find good plants for production.
I have several questions:

1. Would you flower the moms (original seed plants) and keep the off-spring for future mothers OR flower the clones? If the former, would you say it's a bad idea to take the top as a clone, because it'll reduce the yield and won't let me see how the plants grow untopped (since I don't usually top plants)?
2. Do you think it's a good idea to keep the clones in the fridge so I can save space/time?
3. Is taking clones in the 2nd week of flower OR revegging plants after the chop a bad idea? Is it going to affect the genetics in a weird and permanent way?
4. Will revegging affect the structure of the new mother and its off spring? Can it actually improve it?
5. Any other tips/advice?

Thanks!

Mother and clones won't necessarily be the same when flowered out so you definitely want to pick your keepers from the clones.

Revegging is a pain in the ass and takes ages. Not worth it my opinion. Whether it changed the structure of the mother/offspring would be dependant on the genetics.

There's really only one right way to do it.
Plant the seed. Take the clones. Keep the mother's in veg. Flower the clones. Keep the mums that you want.

Kola_Kreator said:

Mother and clones won't necessarily be the same when flowered out so you definitely want to pick your keepers from the clones.

Revegging is a pain in the ass and takes ages. Not worth it my opinion. Whether it changed the structure of the mother/offspring would be dependant on the genetics.

There's really only one right way to do it.
Plant the seed. Take the clones. Keep the mother's in veg. Flower the clones. Keep the mums that you want.

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Hey thanks for the response. That might be the best way to do it but I'll add another month to the process and I'll need to house those big 100+ mums for months... I think it'll be impractical.

How long does revegging take, months?

How’s your clone and reveg game been looking lately ? For ”maximum speed”, you can start all the seeds at 12/12, take top cuts, put em in the fridge and then flower. The fridge cuts will be preserved, and you can narrow your selections later on and then root those. You can also wait a few weeks in flower until they start to show their characteristics to narrow down your selections, and then take and reveg the cuts from the plants that look promising. The other approach would be to “just send it”, flower all of em, and reveg the best ones at the end. Some strains take to cloning better than others, just like some reveg pretty easily, and some dont. It kinda depends on the amount of work you wanna do, and the amount of risk you feel comfortable with.

I don’t agree with the poster above. Mothers and clones are genetically identical (same genotype). *When grown in the same conditions*, they should show the same phenotypical expressions. I’ve successfully revegged plants after flowering for a full 10 weeks, and also revegged cuttings from 2 and 4 weeks into flower. My buddy is currently flowering a plant that I revegged in January, because it went from “I guess I’ll keep this runt” to “fuck me, this is the best smelling and tasting plant I’ve seen in years”. It was definitely ”worth it” and just took a single lightbulb, in a $10 shop light fixture hanging over the “dead” plant for a month. There are many ways to do a pheno hunt. Read through some of older threads for similar ideas. People are creative, and this plant is pretty resilient.