Ive seen so many people say they wish they took cuts that i always keep at least one good rooted cut until after i smoke them. Especially now that i see you shouldnt expect a keeper in every pack.
Back in my earlier days of growing I never even considered it, then when I realized I could and maybe should I still didn't bother for a long time, thinking it would just be more work for me to do and I really didn't need that.
After losing some awesome stuff because of it I started realizing how stupid it was to not do it. Yet, here we are, lol.
One was a really nice White Widow I grew, damn, I loved the flavor, smell, and even the look of that girl. Another was a Cataract Kush, she was special all the way around. I wasn't lollipopping at all back then and the very bottom branches that weren't sitting too far above the pot really on a 4 foot plant were producing a top bud as big around as an American silver dollar. (Believe I may have said half dollar somewhere before but, that was wrong.)
The other that stands out was probably my favorite actually, a Kandy Kush from Reserva Privada that was from a fem freebie seed. As much as I would've liked to have had the other two the KK was the last one and the most devastating to lose. She was sooo nice, ridiculous trich production, just awesome flavor and smell, and from the time it was a seedling on it just struck me as being everything you'd want from a marijuana plant, just a perfect specimen to my mind.
When I ordered more seeds, at the time, I only had the money to order 2 or 3 packs and I
had to order 2 of those to find more...only, out of those 2 packs I didn't find a single one that resembled that first one in any way.
My cousin has always been a beast when it comes to cloning straight to soil but, I've never had a lot of luck with it so, at the first opportunity I ordered my
Turbo Klone and started cloning everything I grew.
Now, silly me, with a ton of beans on hand I figured I'd just do a couple seed runs then go back to cloning. Honestly though, my first run back I couldn't have taken any cuts from those super-stunted little fuckers anyway but, I could've from these. Although, the only that's really standing out to me as being excellent is the one pheno of the Critical Strawberry and supposedly those super strawberry smelling phenos are fairly common, we'll see. I don't think I'm terribly concerned with letting any of these slide tbh, but hopefully I don't eat those words later.
There, wrote a book...
Oh pops, what r we gonna do w u....haha
Take me out back and shoot me...? Hahaha