imo if you want to grow real top shelf headies, you must clone. you don't know how a plant grows the 1st time you flower it...
my point is to get the best pot you should grow out as many seeds as your space/lighting allows, in my case about 20. label all your plants, toss the males and flower the girls. so you get about 10 females from the 20 seeds. take clones of each one and label them. flower the seed plants and after sampling bud from each and pic the best 5 plants and flower those clones. make sure you get more cuts from each before flowering. flower these 5 clones a few times until yyou get a good idea of which is your favorite and make that your mother. from now on every clone from that mother will produce the bud you liked best!!!!doing it this way, you start with 20 plants of the same strain and end up with the best possible represntation of the strain of the 20. see my point if you grow from seed every time this would not be possible. well those are my thoughts on cloning.