In grower slang, a pheno is one individual plant grown from a seed lot and evaluated as a candidate keeper. Hunters number them ("#1" to "#20") so each can be tracked through veg, flower, dry and cure, and the winner is then known by that number.
In practice
"The #4 pheno was the gassy one, #11 had the fruit" means plant 4 and plant 11 of the hunt. Each is a different genotype from the same parents. Once a pheno is kept and cloned it is often called a cut, and famous ones keep their number as part of the name.
The slang stretches the scientific word. Strictly, phenotype means what you observe: genotype plus environment. Two clones of the #4 grown in different rooms share a genotype but can show different phenotypes. Growers usually mean "this genotype" when they say pheno.
Don't confuse with
- Phenotype: the scientific term, covering any observable trait under a given environment.
- Genotype: the genetic make-up, which a clone shares exactly.
- Strain: a name for a line or cut, not one individual from a seed hunt.
A seed run is a dedicated grow in which selected parents are crossed to produce a batch of seed, as opposed to growing for flower.The dry, single-seeded fruit of cannabis that growers call a seed; a hard shell (pericarp plus seed coat) encloses one embryo and does not split open.The genotype is the set of alleles a plant actually carries, either at one locus or across its whole genome, as opposed to the traits you can see.The stretch is the rapid increase in height in the first two to three weeks after switching to flower, when many cultivars grow 1.5 to 3 times taller.The phenotype is what a plant visibly and measurably is (shape, colour, smell, chemistry, timing), the result of its genotype acting in a particular environment.A pheno hunt is growing many seeds of one line side by side and evaluating them to select the best individual plants, which are then kept as clones.A keeper is a plant from a seed hunt good enough to be kept alive as a clone or mother for future runs or breeding.A cut is slang for a clone of one specific plant, used to mean that individual genotype, as in "the original cut".Selection in breeding is choosing which plants become parents, so that alleles behind the chosen traits become more common in the next generation.
