I grew from seed for well over 10 years. I went through hundreds of seeds. The last few years I grew from seed, once a year I would pop 40 or so seeds trying to find nice keepers, but I would find 1 nice keeper if I was lucky. I would find decent plants sure but I'm looking for the best, not just decent and there was to much non desirable plants for my liking. I would end up not even smoking most of it
. Was really frustrating. In all those years and through hundreds of seeds I found a handful of real keeper cuts. Really disappointing to tell you the truth. I loved the hunt to find the gems but I only have 1 flower tent and I just couldn't keep wasting my precious flower space and time on plants that I wasn't going to smoke most of them.
So i eventually moved onto clones with much better results.
The way I look at it is, the clones have already been hunted and the winner picked. So instead me paying for a pack of seeds and having to search through it to hopefully find a gem(most cases not finding anything keeper worthy) i pay for a clone that hunted. There has been a few cuts i didn't care for but they have all been keeper worthy. I am very picky with the herb I smoke and some terps just don't do it for me. So I would move on from those cuts.
The majority of the cuts I've picked up i would say are really top notch.
But you have to be weary when ordering clones online. Hlv is a plague and for some reason some people don't test for it or don't even believe it exists
. And you obviously need to quarantine your clones for at least 2 weeks after getting them to monitor for any pests.
My first order got me some decent clones from clone super store. I believe I posted pics and reviewed it on here when I had them. But to be honest they were just from seed packs someone else"hunted" and the keeper cherry garcia i had from my personal hunt was better in every way. So all 4 were run once. They were all decent plants....but I'm not looking for decent.
After years of searching i finally found a reputable source from the states that would ship to me up in canada. They had tested for hlv. But unfortunately they had the viriod. The person I got them from had leaf testing done which at the time was how testing was done. When I had mine tested because I thought my plants were dudding they had started to test root samples. Root samples turns out are very accurate compared to leaf testing. My tests came back positive. I ended up infecting all my keepers. Was a real bummer.
Tossed all my soil(3-5years old) pots and bleached tents and everything else.
The person who vended the infected clones to me shut down shortly after all this came to light, as I posted all my results and grows on here.
Took a little break and had found a few more vendors that would send to me, its damn near impossible to find those clone only cuts in canada, so have to find them from the states. Got a bunch of new stuff and now quarantine everything until tested for hlv.
Now that I test everything myself through tumi genomics it's been smooth sailing for a few years.
So my advise would be to do your research on who you get them from. A negative hlv test should be a must. Along with some decent reviews.
Just my 2 cents
Happy hunting and happy growing
