Bag seeds?

I've done a little research and have looked around on here a little. Haven't really found to much about bag seeds? Good, bad or mixed? Can anyone help me out or direct me to a older post about this? Are they going to have a higher chance in herming on me? I just had one of my plants start showing some pistols yesterday so I'm pretty stoked about that! I just want to see if anyone has experience with this.

I've grown 5 beautiful girls from bag seed the last 2 seasons. Males have popped too, and those were immediately removed. Both outdoor grows, from seed directly in ground.

Well. Worth. It.

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The 2018 grow was my first. I took the amazing knowledge I learned here, and now I am rocking it this season and will double my yield!

Bag seeds could be anything, great or awful. There is no way to know without growing them. Giving you a likelihood of hermaphrodites or any other trait would be just guessing.

One thing I see as a potential problem with bags seeds is in the hands of brand new growers. If a noob has good proven genetics to start with, they can trust the feedback from the plants and learn from that.

With bag seed, you could end up with messed up plants that don't respond like they should. A new grower could do everything right and still end up with shitty results. This can be very frustrating and discouraging.

IMO, bag seed is for playing around with when you have time, space, and a good stash already in the jars. If you can, start with proven genetics, they don't have to be expensive.

I'm the type of person that can barely keep a cactus alive. I'm on my first grow and started with bag seed just to ensure that I could truly grow before I went down the route of fem seeds. I've been so far pleasantly surprised+

All seeds are bags seeds at some point
Grow em to know em

Herb & Suds said:

All seeds are bags seeds at some point
Grow em to know em

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Yeah dude I had access to really cheap mexican or most likely arizonian bulk commercial weed of moderate quality growing up in Nebraska and some really nice bagseed grown from that. I to this day have a large collection of bagseed from back home I labeled as "Aksarben" (Nebraska in reverse) off an old venue in Omaha where I attended my first concert/festival at around 8 years old. Edgefest '96.

I have a tent full of bag seed plants. Most rock. However the Lemon OG both hermied. Turns out that DNA has been selling these seeds and all hermie.

Explaining where that load of hermies came from. However I also ran 10 Pre-98 Bubba Kush from Cali Connection right out of the Seedsman package and got 10 fucking hermies.

Run the bag seed.

hotrodharley said:

I have a tent full of bag seed plants. Most rock. However the Lemon OG both hermied. Turns out that DNA has been selling these seeds and all hermie.

Explaining where that load of hermies came from. However I also ran 10 Pre-98 Bubba Kush from Cali Connection right out of the Seedsman package and got 10 fucking hermies.

Run the bag seed.

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I've heard some pretty sketchy shit about DNA, I once was super excited to grow out some of their gear but over the last few years became skeptical. Honestly that's just how it goes for many breeders, pollen chunking assholes that think they can charge something like 200 dollars for what essentially equates to the sperm lottery.

Some of those bag seeds will produce better than the latest cool strain with a cool name that you pay $30 a seed for. And with all the people having issues with expensive seeds not popping, turning hermie, etc... I don't have a lot of faith in the seed industry. Not all the issues are caused by the grower. Bad genetics and bad seeds are definitely a problem. Some of these so called breeders are likely just slapping a name on whatever they have on hand. Making seeds is not rocket science and seeds are definitely not worth what some are charging. I don't care what strain it is. Nothing but a money grab just like the cannabis specific nutrient industry. Fancy names and cool packaging. Cannabis growers are extremely gullible and fall for the slick marketing from sleazy salesman that will say anything to sell what they're selling regardless of the truth.

Grow that bag seed. Chances are you'll be happy with the results and glad you did.

bag o seeds = pot luck "i know bad pun"

i know i've had great luck with a bag of seeds, i even when i make my own when i find seeds.....

grow them if you got them...

One of my best clones The Sauce (gg4 x green ribbon bx) was a bag seed. Have grown it 4 rounds now and no signs of herm

Chemdawg started from a bag seed. It also hermied like mad so for a long time it was “cut only” until they could stabilize it.

Gemtree said:

One of my best clones The Sauce (gg4 x green ribbon bx) was a bag seed. Have grown it 4 rounds now and no signs of herm

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I’m running round 3 of some Cherry Bomb from bag seed. All female. They bear very heavy. Fun to grow. I have the last plants outside where they’ve been for a few months here in Alaska. Extremely hardy. Take training well. Fantastic plants in every way. From a legal retail at a discount because they knew it was seeded.

hotrodharley said:

I’m running round 3 of some Cherry Bomb from bag seed. All female. They bear very heavy. Fun to grow. I have the last plants outside where they’ve been for a few months here in Alaska. Extremely hardy. Take training well. Fantastic plants in every way. From a legal retail at a discount because they knew it was seeded.

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From bomb seeds? I grew thc bomb for a while back when it was popular. My friend just got some cherry bomb seeds last month so maybe I'll luck out like you did.

Gemtree said:

From bomb seeds? I grew thc bomb for a while back when it was popular. My friend just got some cherry bomb seeds last month so maybe I'll luck out like you did.

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Some of the he’svi bearing plants I’ve run in s few years. One top cola on an untopped plant in the run before was as big as a nerf football.

I’m also running a second run of Island Sweet Skunk. Rock hard buds that don’t smell skunky to me at all. But beautiful smelling with purpling in the buds. From bag seed and from the same retail and the same grower. Those folks need to get some better growing conditions.

Bag seeds serve some purpose ... its a crap shoot but at least it helps you polish your experience and skill plus you can try training , cropping on them without putting out cash for seedbank orders.

I grow them once in a while for shits and giggles. I end up with mostly sativa leaning strains but sometimes i get some decent smoke .
Had a plant or two throw a few beans from rodelization , discovering them after cure when i break a nug open or find 2 - 3 at bottom of jar. It’s usually just a few out of entire plant. So i keep those and plant.

But if you are talking brick weed beans then more than likely its gonna be a higher chance of herm bunk.

Thanks for all the replies and I'm going to keep growing the bag seeds! I was given 2 seeds from seedsman ( blueberry fems) and both were duds! All the bag seeds I've tried have worked! Not sure what strains they are and only one showing female flowers. Hopefully the rest start showing soon!

I've grown bagseed mainly for many years from mexibrick schwag as well as purchased "dro". Almost always comes out better than the bag it came from.
Pic in my avatar is from one of those runs. As stated earlier, Grow 'em to Know 'em. Learn in the process.

Check out this plant i have with three nodes its pretty awesome! I've looked it up and its a mutation. I should have cloned her but oh well still don't know the sexy so might not even matter!

some mutations are good, i found one that auto tops itself at an early age, still have those seed too