Bag Seed

I have found seeds in multiple high-powered strains from different dispensaries. What’s the likelihood of the plants being identical to the herb it came from

Traditionally, cannabis creates offspring through sexual reproduction - half of the genes come from each parent. Unless the seed came from a herm/selfed plant - and even then, the plant would have all the same genetic material as the parent, but things like base pairs of alleles and nucleotides would still be divided up and passed along by random chance - leading to a plant with the same basic genetics, but a possibly different arrangement of traits (dominant vs recessive trait expression still applies, even with a selfed plant).

You can find some similar stuff but not the same. It still could be a really neat outcome, but don’t expect identical plants.

JonnyBlazeOne$ said:

I have found seeds in multiple high-powered strains from different dispensaries. What’s the likelihood of the plants being identical to the herb it came from

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The likelihood of them being identical is almost 0%, about the same as a human having a baby and it looking and having identical traits as its mother or father. How many kids do you know that look identical to mom or dad? That being said there is also genetic likelihood that it will be similar in many ways to both parents. The trick is finding THE ONE that has the best of both parents. The likelihood of that with one seed is unlikely, but then the possibility exists, better odds than playing the lottery, so what I’m saying is there is a chance, it’s worth the effort but don’t expect an identical clone, that will never happen.

JonnyBlazeOne$ said:

I have found seeds in multiple high-powered strains from different dispensaries. What’s the likelihood of the plants being identical to the herb it came from

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Might be good might be bad but it will be a bit different from the parent the best we can hope for is its unique and better than the parent thats rare tho or that it is along the same lines and close ish unless your real lucky and the genetics the s1 came from were stable and breeds true proly not cos thats not the case with most things especially with todays multi poly hybrids

MissinThe90’sStrains said:

Traditionally, cannabis creates offspring through sexual reproduction - half of the genes come from each parent. Unless the seed came from a herm/selfed plant - and even then, the plant would have all the same genetic material as the parent, but things like base pairs of alleles and nucleotides would still be divided up and passed along by random chance - leading to a plant with the same basic genetics, but a possibly different arrangement of traits (dominant vs recessive trait expression still applies, even with a selfed plant).

You can find some similar stuff but not the same. It still could be a really neat outcome, but don’t expect identical plants.

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Appreciate the input I’m hoping they are similar they don’t have to be identical as long as they are similar I’ll be happy

Hook Daddy said:

The likelihood of them being identical is almost 0%, about the same as a human having a baby and it looking and having identical traits as its mother or father. How many kids do you know that look identical to mom or dad? That being said there is also genetic likelihood that it will be similar in many ways to both parents. The trick is finding THE ONE that has the best of both parents. The likelihood of that with one seed is unlikely, but then the possibility exists, better odds than playing the lottery, so what I’m saying is there is a chance, it’s worth the effort but don’t expect an identical clone, that will never happen.

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If the plant self pollinated will that make the offspring more similar to that specific plant

JonnyBlazeOne$ said:

If the plant self pollinated will that make the offspring more similar to that specific plant

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It would make it an S1. Still just a seed, not a clone. If it’s bag seed you have no idea how it was pollinated, and if it selfed was it full blown herm? You will never know since it’s bag seed. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, after all haze originated from bag seed. About the only thing you can count on is it not being identical to the mother, which was the original question. If the question had been is it worth the time to grow the seed out I probably wouldn’t have answered, it all depends on how great the bud was to you and how much time and space do you have to grow unknown seeds. I personally have more seeds that I will ever grow, some that should be fantastic, so I usually pass on growing bag seed. If I didn’t have a maximum plant count law over my head I’d have way more plants, in that case i might just grow it for fun.

I've had pretty good luck with he bag seeds thatI've tried over the years. I was getting a certain batch of clone-only Gorilla Glue #4 that had a bunch of seeds in the buds. I saved them and grew a few out. The final product was similar to the bud it came from, but the plant didn't yield very much. It never hurts to try. GG#4 seed wasn't available at the time, so I assumed the seeds came from a nanner-pollinated bud.

I did have some bag seed that I wasted time and space on only to have them produce hermaphrodites. It's a roll of the dice I guess.

tstick said:

I've had pretty good luck with he bag seeds thatI've tried over the years. I was getting a certain batch of clone-only Gorilla Glue #4 that had a bunch of seeds in the buds. I saved them and grew a few out. The final product was similar to the bud it came from, but the plant didn't yield very much. It never hurts to try. GG#4 seed wasn't available at the time, so I assumed the seeds came from a nanner-pollinated bud.

I did have some bag seed that I wasted time and space on only to have them produce hermaphrodites. It's a roll of the dice I guess.

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Hoping to find something nice to turn into mothers gonna have to roll the dice

I used bagseed quite often ten years ago. I'd have better success with those bagseed than I would from bought in seed. These were in the days of GH seedco and the like. So that was par for the course.

I have 3 coffee cans full of bagseed that came from some super dank over the years. When there's just one or two seed in bottom of a #, I feel it's a pretty good chance they are fem seed.

One day soon I'd like to pop them all.