VIII / MANUAL

VIII.1
Selection standard

Seven pillars, scored.

Every plant is scored 0–10 on each pillar, seventy points total. The ineffable can override the total regardless.

VIII.2
The override

The ineffable overrides all scoring.

A plant that genuinely stops the evaluator mid-motion is kept regardless of total numerical score. This is the one rule with no points attached — it cannot be gamed by stacking the other six.

VIII.3
Population method

The pheno-hunt strategy.

An honest framework — what a population actually guarantees, and what it doesn't.

F1 hunt

100 seeds minimum per line

After germination and culls, roughly 60–70 viable plants remain — more manageable than 200, still a meaningful population.

Reality check

What 100 seeds actually guarantees

Nothing specific. Better odds than 40 seeds — not a guarantee of finding any particular expression. The unicorn is found, not engineered.

Confirmation run

Essential before anything is called a keeper

Clones are taken from all candidates at week 2–3 of flower. The mother is scored to harvest, then smoke-tested to confirm. Confirmed keepers are already 4–6 weeks established by the time they're locked in — saving a full grow cycle later.

F2 timing

Only from confirmed keepers

A cross only moves to F2 from keepers whose clones confirmed the target traits across at least one full cycle — not from a single promising plant.

Disclosures.

THC figures

Estimates from breeder marketing claims and parent genetics — none verified from EHG's own lab-tested harvests. Never presented as confirmed fact.

Pricing & availability

Prices shown are the program's intended catalog pricing. No seeds are for sale yet — availability follows lab verification and, where applicable, licensing.

Legal status

Personal cultivation operates under the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act. Any commercial seed sale requires separate licensing under the Cannabis Master Plan.

Phenotype odds

Educated estimates, not precise science. The unicorn is found, not engineered — larger populations improve the odds, they never guarantee the outcome.