Quote Originally Posted by irydyum
Now let me start by saying that bagseed is way better than noseed, I'm sure we can all appreciate that. Second, if that is your only viable option, you should grow the hell out of it the best that you can, and we are all here to help you in that regard.
By no means was I directing any ill will toward the bag seed either. I started this thread talking about the people who want others to tell them what they are growing when they use bag seed, and all the randomness that usually follows. People coming in the thread with all kinds of off the wall ideas of what they are growing, when the fact is that it's impossible to truly know anything about it until you harvest it. At that point you can start making assumptions about how to grow it, how it will react to different stimuli, etc etc... The only way to learn your bagseed is to grow it, clone it, grow it again, clone it again and so on. The advantage to using strains and known genetics is that information in many cases is already available to you.

I'm sure somehow, some way, before seed banks and worldwide genetics sharing that every seed would have been a bag seed at some point in it's life. Whether or not someone gave it to you to grow and told you what it came from there was no "information sharing" like there is today.

All the chronic that we are smoking today is thanks to the "old schoolers" that put in work with fluoros and back yard soil and miracle grow hydro setups, and all the other ingenuity that came with lack of information and equipment. So, in one way or another, we all owe a debt of gratitude to those pioneers who did the shitty work of weeding through thousands and thousands of random seeds so we could reap the benefits today.

That being said, the only real difference in growing out your bagseed and growing a strain is the millions of poorer genetic combinations that have been eliminated through controlled breeding. With that work, the breeders are able to convey to the growers how to grow them properly.

IMHO, if people are going to use bagseed and expect success, they are just going to have to pop way more beans to get something truly worth their effort. I can guarantee that if I was to pop 100 bag beans knowing what I have learned since my first random grow, that I could get something of good quality. I simply choose to use known genetics for the predictability.

If you are one of those pioneers out there who is looking to breed and name your own strain, good on ya. We need more of you, and no one is going to give a shit where it came from if it knocks em out when they hit it!