Strains and Phenotypes

[kbo ca]

Well if you know what the parents are you can go back and breed the strain again. so then that plant isn't available only by clone, therefore not clone only

I agree with most of your statement but even if you know the parent plants, it can still be clone only. I dont think it has to do with knowing or not knowing the parents. Its just as you said, thats what they're called cause thats what they are!

 

[aeviaanah]

Well if you know what the parents are you can go back and breed the strain again. so then that plant isn't available only by clone, therefore not clone only

Yea you got a point. In a sense the word is used rather vaguely. If the plant is clone only you can always stress it out to make fem seeds...carrying the strain through the seeds after breeding.

I'm now switching the term clone only to something more suitable such as hybrid.

 

[kbo ca]

Yea you got a point. In a sense the word is used rather vaguely. If the plant is clone only you can always stress it out to make fem seeds...carrying the strain through the seeds after breeding.

I'm now switching the term clone only to something more suitable such as hybrid.

just about every strain out and available today is a hybrid.

 

[323cheezy]

herm seeds pop out wierd phenos....
Ive grown some..

 

[aeviaanah]

just about every strain out and available today is a hybrid.

yea your right...

 

[JayBio420]

Just call it "asexually reproduced-only genetics"
It's still reproduction, the strain has reproduced through cuttings.

Oh, I'm a year to late..

 

[pabuds]

i grew a Barneys Pineapple Chunk last year and cloned 10 clones then took mother plant and sprayed her with Colloidal silver to produce male flowers/pollen sacks then Collected that pollen and pollenate the ten clones this year i started the seeds and got 3 def.phenotypes ,one is a skunk,2 some cheese smelling plant,3 a pineapple plant,all def,looking

 

[johnjohnson6012]

I know this thread is old but thought I would just reply on it.... from my understanding "Clone Only" basically is a cutting from a plant that is a certain phenotype that is really good. That doesnt mean that it is a new strain, because as alot of people have pointed out if you buy a pack of seeds you'll get different phenotypes. Each Phenotype doesnt mean its a new strain. If that was the case every seed would be a different "strain"

 

[maxamus1]

COULD YOU NOT CREATE FEM SEEDS FROM THAT CLONE TO GET THOSE SAME TRAITES? sorry about the cap

 

[johnjohnson6012]

I don't know very much about breeding as I'm just now starting to get into it somewhat but I think that stabilizing the clone to the point where the seeds it could produce to be uniform is the hard part, the seeds you get from it will all be very different and a lot of different characteristics. I don't know really anything about creating Fem seeds tho.

 

[writtin]

I don't know very much about breeding as I'm just now starting to get into it somewhat but I think that stabilizing the clone to the point where the seeds it could produce to be uniform is the hard part, the seeds you get from it will all be very different and a lot of different characteristics. I don't know really anything about creating Fem seeds tho.

It depends what traits you are breeding for, I don't know much about marijuana genetics but if you bx for 4 generations and you are going for a dominant gene you can get up to 95% that breed true to that gene, if its not dominant its much harder and a much rarer pheno

 

[Trousers]

You can self a "clone only" and get feminized seeds that are going to be very, very close to the original "clone only" variety.

(not trying to muddle things)

I've never been comfortable with the word "strain" as it relates to marijuana.
For me strains are bacteria.

I don't grow a certain strain of tomatoes, I grow a certain variety.
Noam Chomsky would tell me to fuck off, that communication is established either way, but "strain" still sounds weird to me.

 

[echlectica]

To answer your Q....yes..some strains have come from speacial phenotypes and have gone on as clone only strains...for example; UK Cheese...was found ina pack of Skunk#1, the grower was smart enuf to notice it was speacial adn cloned and shared it. Nobody refers to it as Skunk#1 even though it is, everyone knows the Cheese tho. C99 was created from a pack of Jack Herer F2's which produced Princess, Genius and Cafe Girl, techniclally JH plants..but so diff they became seperate clone only strains.

There are many Clone Only strains that there are really seeds for. The original breeders have seeds, from the crosses that produced the strain, in storage. Sometimes, if you know the right people in Northern California, you can obtain some.