Clones vs seeds for yield

ShiggityFlip;2707360 said:

The thing about seeds is that they are genetically variable. Some will yield a lot some a little. Some will taste different than others. Some will be high potency others not so much. So you run a pheno hunt to start out. And clone them all before going into flower. The clones vegetate while their moms flower. Then when you harvest you test all the candidates and pick the best ones. Their clones go into flower and the rest get turned into compost. You now have plants going into flower that have performed the best in the past. Clones are also automatically mature. They are the same age as the mother plants when they are taken. Seeds take some time to become mature and shouldn't be flowered until that point.

So with clones you get perfect copies of your best producing strains with the highest potency. With seeds...well who knows what you will get. Many times a grower will forget to clone seedlings and puts them into flower only to find that a plant ends up as the holy grail strain they were searching for. High yield, great taste, high potency. But they didn't clone it and it fails to reveg. That is a common but very sad occurrence.

The other advantage with clones is that you know all your clones will respond the same way if they are from the same mother. You get better and better at knowing what they want from you. You know exactly how much they will stretch, how much cal/mag they need, how much to defoliate, what style of training. I think you will be surprised at how much the seeds from one strain can vary from one another. Look at my hunger games pheno hunt. I am doing exactly what I am describing here with cloning plants. This harvest I am not worried as much about yield, only about finding the best examples of each strain. I have about four clones of each strain ready to go for when the current ladies finish. When flowering finishes the best clones of the best phenos get to go into flowering. That's when the yields begin to happen. The other clones will get donated to friends or to the compost bin.

So even with Big Bud the people who are getting the b st yields are running clones from a single plant, the one that gave them the best yield, flavor, and potency. Their grow has become basically the equivalent of one giant plant in many different pots.

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