Its a lot harder to get your grow technique down with bagseed. Every seed is different with different needs. It just complicates things. Good luck.
This is VERY true. The fewer plants that have INDIVIDUAL needs, the better off you are at first. There are growers out there with as many as 10 or 15 strains growing out at once, but that comes with experience we dont have.
My suggestion would be to grow some seed (Let them grow thru flower) Take clones from the best, most robust girls, concentrating on one or two phenos only. Then grow out those clones. The nutrition/water requirements for each plant will be alot closer together.
With bagseed, the amount of nutes required for one plant may very well kill of some of the others.
But I've seen some really good bagseed grows. Just depends.
My first 2 grows were with bagseed, and they were bittersweet at best. First grow started out with 10, ended up with 1 that gave me just shy of 4 oz of REALLY good pot. 2nd grow I got everyone across the finish line, with so-so weed. (I inadvertently harvested a couple weeks early)
from my experience bag seed i grew wasnt much better than than the bag weed it came from.
so unless the the bag weed was good, id suggest buyin beans unless its your first or second grow.
The first grow gave me about 4 oz of weed that totally eclipsed the dope it came from. I'd say that commercial grows start out life as good, or at least decent genetics. The full potential of those genetics can't be realized because each plant will not get the individualized attention required to maximize quality. The old adage is true. You can have quality, or quantity, it's your choice.
Bagseeds tend to have a higher hermaphrodite rate.
I don't think this is quite correct. If you pollinate a female with a male then you get F1 (1st generation after the parents) seeds. Just a plain cross between a male and female plant that will probably show a few variations when the seeds are grown. They will be a make up of both parents' genetics, with about a 75% rate of being female.
Hermaphrodites are caused during the life-cycle of the cannabis plant due to stress and/or environmental factors. These factors cause the plant produce both female and male flowers. This is NOT something you want. The seeds a hermaphrodite will produce will more than likely be hermaphrodites too.
If I am wrong could someone please fill us in.
In my opinion, you are wrong. It's a bitch to understand without a heavy background in genetics (I have a good general working knowledge of it at best) But here's how
I see it:
Late flower 'nanners is a natural trait that occurs at the end of the lifecycle of the cannabis plant. It is not true hermaphrodism. It's like a last ditch effort to ensure the propagation of the species. That does not make that plant a "hermie".
Don't take this as gospel. I do not have a degree in biology or botany (I
DID pay attention in them though). I DO have a fairly analytical mind and a good education, and as I see it, a plant that would develop normally barring any outside stimuli is NOT a "hermie" if one forces it to produce nanners.
A true "hermie" would be a plant that has the propensity to develop balls regardless of outside/external stimuli.
he is right to a point
the way they make fem seeds is with a hermi plant - you take the pollin from the hermi and pollinate a diff. female plant (not a clone of or the hermi it self) and those seed that are made will all be female with a small chance of hermi
I was under the impression that STS or CS was used, but no matter, it's the same thing. No matter
HOW we force the plant, we are still
forcing it.
Again, we are forcing a plant to do something it normally would NOT do. If you were to have NO homosexual tendencies to begin with, yet I
force you to to perform fellatio on another guy, are you gay from that point on? I know it's a loose comparison, but you get the idea.
This seems to be the point that everyone seems to have trouble with. Hermaphrodite plants will produce and display both sex organs regardless of environmental factors.
It's just my opinion.....I
COULD be wrong! It's been known to happen now and then.