Label your shit...

Proper labeling is important. Anyone who's misplaced or lost a strain or gotten the wrong strain due to mislabeling will attest to the importance of this task and the frustration of a labeling system that doesn't serve their purposes.

Maybe for some appropriately labeling plants isn't a priority? Perhaps some don't care what something is labeled because it smokes just as dank to them whether or not it is. But maybe you do care? Maybe knowing the needs of each specific strain are important to you? Maybe it's easier to care for your plants when you know what kind they are? Maybe you like knowing what kind of pot you're smoking at 5 in the morning? Maybe you don't want duplicates of the same strain? And maybe it's important to you or your friends to know what strain you're sharing or receiving.....there are may different reasons to properly label one's plants.

But if you're going to, please don't change the name that the strain was given to you as, it pretty much defeats so many of the purposes for labeling.

Your last point is the only really relevant one, and it's a futile endeavor. Especially with clones, there's just so many out there looking to make a quick buck that they'll simply slap the latest flavor of the week on a similar clone. A pleading exhortation on the boards won't even put a dent in this unfortunate phenomenon. GSC is the perfect example. I have three of those cuts now from different sources and they're all different, especially the "forum cut" that everyone has. Only one presents as the proper representation of that particular strain.
The only way to rise above the shenanigans is to rabidly acquire as many cuts as you possibly can, and sift out the bullshit after giving them a test run in the flower room.
Next up is OGKB. It's the next GSC. Just wait: there's already multiple people claiming they grew out females from bag seed. Insert massive Eye Roll here...

Dankfactory said:

Your last point is the only really relevant one, and it's a futile endeavor. Especially with clones, there's just so many out there looking to make a quick buck that they'll simply slap the latest flavor of the week on a similar clone. A pleading exhortation on the boards won't even put a dent in this unfortunate phenomenon. GSC is the perfect example. I have three of those cuts now from different sources and they're all different, especially the "forum cut" that everyone has. Only one presents as the proper representation of that particular strain.
The only way to rise above the shenanigans is to rabidly acquire as many cuts as you possibly can, and sift out the bullshit after giving them a test run in the flower room.
Next up is OGKB. It's the next GSC. Just wait: there's already multiple people claiming they grew out females from bag seed. Insert massive Eye Roll here...

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I hope that after you've sifted through your shenanigans that you put the proper labels on your cuts and pass them out with the appropriate labeling. And I hope that this conversation becomes easier to broach when acquiring new cuts. Or I hope that one considers to enquiring as much as possible about each new cut they acquire based on the knowledge that, as you've said, "there's just so many out there looking to make a quick buck that they'll simply slap the latest flavor of the week on a similar clone."

One does not need to plead to begin a conversation around here, they only need to click...post reply.

Jd Short said:

I hope that after you've sifted through your shenanigans that you put the proper labels on your cuts and pass them out with the appropriate labeling. And I hope that this conversation becomes easier to broach when acquiring new cuts. Or I hope that one considers to enquiring as much as possible about each new cut they acquire based on the knowledge that, as you've said, "there's just so many out there looking to make a quick buck that they'll simply slap the latest flavor of the week on a similar clone."

One does not need to plead to begin a conversation around here, they only need to click...post reply.

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Don't get me wrong. It's an admirable endeavor. And I go to extensive lengths to ensure the gene pool is untarnished. I trade cuts regularly and simply refuse to make any sort of change of hands until I have done my due diligence to ensure the lineage and traits are a true representation. The problem is, for some reason our passion attracts the lowest common denominator, and they are a straight up Army, for a lack of a better term. I'm of course referring to the cardboard cutout cannabis grower: the dude with the White Sox Flatbill, oversized Affliction tee and Pitbull on his apartment patio who just took a silver sharpie and penned "Loud Malibu OG" on a Dixie cup containing a Bubba Kush clone. They are a million strong and growing.

Dankfactory said:

Don't get me wrong. It's an admirable endeavor. And I go to extensive lengths to ensure the gene pool is untarnished. I trade cuts regularly and simply refuse to make any sort of change of hands until I have done my due diligence to ensure the lineage and traits are a true representation. The problem is, for some reason our passion attracts the lowest common denominator, and they are a straight up Army, for a lack of a better term. I'm of course referring to the cardboard cutout cannabis grower: the dude with the White Sox Flatbill, oversized Affliction tee and Pitbull on his apartment patio who just took a silver sharpie and penned "Loud Malibu OG" on a Dixie cup containing a Bubba Kush clone. They are a million strong and growing.

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You gotta beef with Dixie Cups?...Im just kidding.

I'll just say that when popping seeds, label and track. I am just now getting out of a drought caused literally by one bad seed. I didn't track what clones came from what and ended up with my plants all being from the one bad seed.

For the first time since i started growing, I am cutting it close on supply due to this. Thankfully, curren grow is about a month out and looks wonderful.