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#1
I’ve always grown outside, and from clone for many years, but last year started growing indoors and from seed just for a change of pace…

I know when I started looking for seeds, I looked at all the cool photos, and the heavily marketable descriptions ha ha.

I let the actual important details get swallowed up by reading how it will smell like tropical fruits and candies or how it will yield 700g per meter squared…

My point here is that if you’re going to start from seed, learn about the importance of growing a seedling, and not just a flowering plant, and when you’re looking for seeds, look for stable genetic markers like F5 or BX10 or something solid.

Or else you’re going to pop 10, and MAYBE get one like in the photos if you’re lucky…

Here’s a photo of 6/10 from the same pack…

Ones purpling and smaller buds, one is huge with giant buds, one is light green with medium buds, one smells like limes, one smells like burnt rubber, one smells like gas and fruit, two love the light, the rest don’t like as much light, three are heavy feeders, three aren’t heavy feeders, they all liked training ha ha ha.

You get my point.

Good luck.

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#2
Interesting you opted to move indoors to grow from seed. They can become monsters from seed, clones not so much. Unless you're growing autos. With them you're just playing Beat the Clock.

But I'm an outdoor grower and I prefer working with clones so there's no guessing game what you got, no pheno hunting, and no males to cull. This play it safe approach meets my expectations, but I also don't get those eye popping moments you get with seed variations.

I'm also a poor white guy, so my procurement of seeds more closely resembles searching for blunts in the ash tray. 🤣
 
#6
Seeds aren't clones, though, so variation is the norm. Offspring from the same parents can be quite different for most higher-order species, AFAIK. Anyway, variation doesn't matter much to me. I do like how it makes life more interesting, though.
 
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Man when I pick my seeds to buy I look at the picture and buy the prettiest flower I can find I want to grow flowers that look like this
 

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#8
Barney’s just white labels whatever they can find in my opinion…

But

I was just reading about how tissue culture labs are now creating synthetic seeds from meristem cultures and embryos suspended in like a gel. This will literally be clones in seed form!!

I thought it was pretty cool.
In the future, to be able to buy clones without overnight shipping and trying to ship live plants
 
#11
I’m going to try Humboldt seed companies blueberry muffin just because it’s now a BX 10 bred along a parallel line for hybrid vigor.

If this doesn’t create homozygosity or at least 10 similar plants, then I don’t think anything will from seed!
 
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LoveGrowingIt said:
Not this indoor grower!
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Well, that’s good! Most of them I see will grow four plants of the same strain! So one isn’t growing into the lights while the others aren’t! As in two Indica and two sativa! I think it is more work to deal with that kind of stuff! Just from what I’ve seen!
 
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Oldchucky said:
Well, that’s good! Most of them I see will grow four plants of the same strain! So one isn’t growing into the lights while the others aren’t! As in two Indica and two sativa! I think it is more work to deal with that kind of stuff! Just from what I’ve seen!
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I often grow the same strain because I like to observe variations in how the plants grow. I have two different strains that are beginning flowering now, though. I haven't worried about growing into the lights since I learned how to control their height. Pots can be raised or lowered, and branches can be bent, as well. Everyone has their own way of doing things and reasons for doing them. I figured that standardization would be important for folks who sell it. I don't so I don't care about it. We like the differences.
 
#17
I also want uniform plants indoors. I first did this by starting 4 and keeping 2. I learned this from a very good grower as he starts 2x what he is planning and then twists and ties them down and see which 4 works best and culls down from there.
A waste of seeds? Those 5$ seeds are the cheapest thing in the tent. The most expensive is the stretchy bitch ruining the light pattern and the level canopy costing me grams of yield.
I got 3 presentations from 9 Apple Fritter Autos. First set I had 2 match well and second set also had a good pair.
Then cause I had the room and I pulled one off at node 7 I have a missile and a crown 7 inches different hight.
Just can't win. Got side lighting and stuff going on.
 
#18
Yeah, when you’re dealing with room constraints, it can get a little complicated! Kind of depends on how much room you have! A lot of these guys are like machines! One crop after the other! Bang, bang bang! They grow good shit indoors!
 
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