Whats a pheno?

When talking about seeds and breeders people also mention pheno or phenotype. Can someone explain what this means? How come the same strain from same breeder can have different phenotypes? Different mothers?
Thanks RIU

letstry said:

When talking about seeds and breeders people also mention pheno or phenotype. Can someone explain what this means?
Thanks RIU

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if you had a set of twins and they aren't identical, they are different pheno types. So seeds may come from the same plant, but each one will have different traits. some lean toward the mother, some the father.

Phenotypes often vary from seed. When you get a clone from a mother it is just a replica of her phenotype.

So with seeds from a strain you could get some variations of characteristics, but with clones it will always grow, look, taste, smell, yield, etc., the same as the mother. According to growing conditions of course. Do I understand that right?

Amazing thanks everyone for the info, So a clone transfers pheno types while seeds may have minor phenotype differences

bulastoner said:

So with seeds from a strain you could get some variations of characteristics, but with clones it will always grow, look, taste, smell, yield, etc., the same as the mother. According to growing conditions of course. Do I understand that right?

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yes, you are correct, a clone is just that, a clone.

phe·no·type 1. a. The observable physical or biochemical characteristics of an organism, as determined by both genetic makeup and environmental influences.
b. The expression of a specific trait, such as stature or blood type, based on genetic and environmental influences.

2. An individual or group of organisms exhibiting a particular phenotype.

A genotype is what the plant actually is, ie. an indica kush. The phenotype reflects what the plant looks like. Example; I just bought a 5-pack of beans that were advertised as "short, bushy indica genotype". The plants turned out to be just the opposite phenotypically - they were tall and scrawny. So the geno' was short and bushy but the phenol was tall and leggy. Nomenclature is a bitch, eh? BigSteve/