Quote Originally Posted by melodious fellow
Nifty observation man.

Wouldn't that also mean that these would be feminized seeds? A mixed blessing perhaps? Every once in a while I meet someone who is wary of feminized seeds, but which ones sell for more in the majority of seedbank catalogs?

:rastasmoke:
Could be, it was just that in my case I felt it was better to err on the side of caution - the fewer odd problems to deal with on my first grow the better :-)

The reason I'd advise against using seeds from a bag like that is the risk of the hermie trait being carried forward - the hermie that pollinated that bud might just be genetically predisposed to the hermie trait - without being stressed - I was going to qualify that I don't actually have any experience of the hermie problem, but then I remembered that I did have two hermies in the grow but they only pollinated themselves and/or each other and they were ok to smoke after fishing out those little white specks of seeds. But I keep reading that warning over and over as I wander the internet, so I avoided seeds from any bag with immature seeds in it.

As for strains, all of of the plants I started with were from unknown bags of mid-grade generic pot - but only from the bags that turned out to be surprisingly damn good to be priced as generic mid-grade pot. - I have no idea what strains could possibly have been involved or where geographically any of it could have been coming from or what conditions it was grown under.

If I had to start from scratch completely again (unless GanjaSanta were to start dropping off seeds of true-breeding stabilized cool hybrids for me to play with and share with my friends each Christmas or perhaps April 20th... damn, that would be cool... mmmm... where were we.... shit... ohhh yea)

I would try to do it the same way I did this time: a wide variety of seeds from bags of weed that I really enjoyed- those that had the characteristics that I enjoy and would want in my crop - but still a good variety from a lot of different sources (which may not be as easy everywhere as it is in my town, I realize...)

I would try to take two or three clones from each plant when they were just big enough.
Pitch males and clones, harvest and evaluate each plant and compare. Then, I would pitch the clones of anything that was really disappointing (did I mention my herbicide flavored plant?? I'm serious... disgusting... smoked it mostly in blunts 'cause that was the only real way to cover up its true inner horrific nature), I would just bloom all of the clones of the plants that were ok but not great, and then I would hold back a clone or two of each plant that really stood out as the best of the crop - those would then be the mother plants supplying clones for each batch to follow.

There are a couple big downsides to doing it this way: one that you are dependant on clones to reproduce weed you like and if it happens to die then you're S.O.L. [can't just order seeds, you gotta go through that whole selection process again to get a new momma which may or may not be as nice... so far I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that I always have a happy momma and a clone or two of plants as nice as my current one] also I've read about clone fatigue and I've read that it's real and I've read that it's a myth, and I have no freaking idea. Two, it means having a shit-ton of plants growing at once for a while to get a real good selection which is obviously a lot of work and, depending on the climate in your area may likely be prone to all sorts of risks. I actually lucked out and had a good bit of space to work with in a secluded location, but I also let the plants get pretty dang big (oops) before blooming. If I were to do it again, I would probably not have that kind of space, so I would just keep the plants as small as possible and hope that I can still get a good idea of the differences and potential of each one.