The practice of growing out multiple seeds from the same cultivar to identify the best-performing or most desirable individual phenotype, which can then be kept as a mother plant for cloning.
Dakota attended the Humboldt Seed Company Mega Pheno Hunt in the Emerald Triangle, describing it as seeing 10,000–20,000 plants across multiple farms. Mr. Q also references pheno hunting as the beauty of working with seeds rather than clones.
Discussed in: Ep 002