Schwag

[m.g.]

i disagree there. i've found there are more trich's on seeded flowers as the pod area is greatly increased and pods are where the most concentrated trichomes can usually be found. if you look closely at those pics of master kush in the pic room i believe you'll be able to see what i mean.

m.g. Reviewed by m.g. on 06-05-2006. Schwag Hey guys, this is my first post in the Growers Lounge, and I plan on growing my own plants pretty soon. I have one question that does not really concern growing, but rather what some people grow. This may be a stupid question, but why does schwag even exist? Doesn't it take just as much time and effort to raise a plant yielding schwag than to one yielding very good chronic? Why would anyone in the right mind even try to raise a schwag plant if they had the ambition to grow their own? The Rating: 5

[elcheapo]

I know what you mean m.g. but think that is incorrect. A healthy plant with a mature flower should have bracts almost as full looking as a seeded bract. Other than that I agree with Kush Overs previous post.
But I do agree that a seeded plant will get you some seriously heavy stones. Just not as many as 'sinse' and with an increased risk of a surprise seed explosion.

[justaseed]

imo a female plant that gets pollinated will basically switch its efforts from trichome production to seed development which will ultimately lead to lower quality (seeded)bud. i do see everyones points stated above, i am just stating what i have seen from my own experiences. every plant is different so i suppose anything is possible.

[latewood]

imo a female plant that gets pollinated will basically switch its efforts from trichome production to seed development which will ultimately lead to lower quality (seeded)bud. i do see everyones points stated above, i am just stating what i have seen from my own experiences. every plant is different so i suppose anything is possible.

this is the exact right answer...

Once pollenated a plant turns it's energy to seed production, and all thc production pretty much stops.

Just because you have alot of trichs...doesn't mean you have alot of thc...only the potential for thc...

period...this is not debatable...
Yes you can grow seeded plants and get high. but, If they are not seeded and grown to maturity, they will have alot higher thc content, laeding to higher potency.

peace, lw:smokin:

[latewood]

but you can have sinse schwag while top quality seeded bud is also easily doable. seeds mean little when it comes to potency, just as seedless means little. same goes for brick. i've seen high quality colombian in compressed bricks and it was some awesome stuff! it's all in the genes...

welcome to the boards M.G.
Unforunately, your info is total 'crap'...Please don't be offended, but you have alot to learn.

good luck with your grows,
sorry, lw

[the image reaper]

one of the best questions I've seen in awhile ... :thumbsup:

[justaseed]

i grew out some bag seed a while back and ended up weeding out the crappy phenos till i had 1 indica dominant plant that produced incredible amounts of trichs and had the smell, taste and high just like alot of the northern lights i've had. the plant did tend to hermie late in flower but all in all it was a good "strain", not top shelf but good none the less. that is where genetics comes in, it's the difference between what i had from the bagseeds and some real top of the line smoke!

[latewood]

hermies are going to happen, when growing from seed...

I just planted some bagseed from a bag my brother bought from a jamaican...It kicked ass, so I am growing somw of the seeds...It looks like White Widow, now that it has kicked into serious veg...

Just think about it...If you take good genetics and grow it poorly, then you will end up with OK smoke.

If you take a seed from some bud you bought and grow it correctly...there is a good chance due to all the closet growers buying good gentics...that you can come up with good product, through sound growing methods and the luck that you stumbled onto good genetics, that someone else grew. Imho

Now some of my buddy's don't agree with this, but, even experienced growers have many topics of debate, when it comes to hermies and genetics.

lw

[justaseed]

i'm sure my grow room had something to do with plants hermying but on the other hand i had strains that never hermied and others that hermied all the time. so i believe genetics as well as environment play a great role in determining if a plant will hermie.

[latewood]

consider this. If you had a pollen sack open in your room once...see where I am going with this?

do you clean it really good each time you re-grow?