Top Shelf Smoke BUT Low On Yield - Do You Keep Them?

[medmaker420]

Do you keep strains around simply due to the cut's name even if it doesn't yield all that well?

I recently culled a few moms of mine simply due to the yield. Now I could have bred them out to higher yielding males and played around with that BUT with so many clones at my disposal here in california I seem to want BOTH yield and quality and can't justify having an amazing high end strain that can't produce for shit.

Any thoughts?

Would you keep shitty yielders that had amazing smoke even though there are equal quality strains out there with much larger yields?

Reason I ask is because I ran a few of my higher end (smoke quality/bag appeal) producing strains and when I saw the yield of those ones it just didn't seem worth it to me in the end.

I would rather have A quality bud all year around than to have A+ quality bud if it yields enough to supply myself.

Is a strains name or legend reason enough to keep a shitty yielding cut? If it is so elite or legendary wouldn't you think it would yield amazing as well? Seems like the breeder found a quality phenotype but didn't work it long enough to get quality + yield out of it.

this hash makes me a ramblin man

 

[medicalmjuser]

Would you keep shitty yielders that had amazing smoke even though there are equal quality strains out there with much larger yields?

what the hell would be the point?

 

[Raco]

There are 2 categories:
"The best"...and then,the rest

 

[antimatter]

Its gotta clone well, veg fast, yield good and be AAA or its not in my garden.

 

[JWP]

i concur

 

[geopolitical]

As long as a plant can produce enough bud in the space I have for us, I could care less how much over that it ever produces.

If I had a choice between a decent yielder that was "decent" smoke and moderate/poor yielder that was amazing smoke I'd probably go for the moderate/poor yielder assuming the yield wasn't so crappy that I was forced to in any way cut back habits

If you don't have to choose then DON'T. Get the one that is both heavy yielding and the stone you want. It's not a complicated decision.

 

[hard rain]

I go for effect over yield every time.

 

[Raco]

The typical trade-offs ...you know?

 

[hempluvr]

I would rather have a little bit of chrondo that puts my dick in the dirt then a bunch of weed that I have to smoke 39852986972468904278 joints to get high.

 

[Raco]

...you keep clones and you do know that you have to make seeds...
and brush those low buds and collect the fruits and smoke your very own sinsemilla and feel sooooo fckn good

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

the trippiest sativas dont gennerally yield well, but if I could find a pure Maui strain I would keep it forever.

 

[Phillthy]

quality before quantity... always!

 

[sour power]

the way i look at is if it trained well dialed in and veg for 30 to 60 days it will yeild well regardless if its low yeilding strain.you can throw it in the loop everyother grow.me personally.i dont grow a strain that isnt top notch.no big bud for me thank you.haze,sour d,kush,chems,g13s,skunks thats it.all i do is grab different strains of the 6,and rock those.my brother rocks different shit but i like what i got and always grab new shit but it never makes the cut.

 

[Raco]

quality before quantity... always!

...and the best usually comes from smaller plants w/ small buds..yield equals nada almost zero...talk about proud and breeding potential

 

[Snagglepuss]

some of purples from seed really irritate me.Great smoke but slow,small yield.Unless you find that special 1 or 2 ..Ive separated them into 1 bin .Gonna run them ,but probably in a bunch in 1 pot.

 

[BENJI]

I for sure keep them reminds me of a saying,,,"If size mattered then the elephant would be king of the jungle" same goes with MJ id go with quality over quantity/yield every time,,But finding a nice balance of both is the real fun...

 

[stasis]

One can always put one or two of the Killer-Diller in the room for yourself....

If one has a veg space, then some of those Purple Strains can be vegged longer. STILL< the space could be used for things that are more productive.

I have culled, Culled, and more Strains than I would like to admit... Ended up with a couple classics, but dispensed with most. I, too, got tired of too many Moms.

The goal is a Hi-Grade Yielder, for sure....
I believe that is why they are called 'The Holy Grail," lol.

 

[kaneboy]

i look for quality over yeild ,its hard when you have limited space but i do 2 grows and try and better it if it takes my fancy before moving on

 

[opt1c]

after awhile u just get tired of having a ton of different moms you never really grow out and don't plan to; i toss em when i make the decision and don't look back... too many beans in the fridge to loose any sleep over the past... granted a few are kept around; for future crosses and to go to seed if nothing else

 

[ISP_SmokeTrain]

To me it's always quality over just quantity, but I don't sale buddage either. If most of the legendary strains are given proper veg time, 1 to 1.5 months minimum, the yield is not that low. It also takes a few runs of a particular strain to get it dailed in properly, so the learning curve, over time dails up the yield. Never give up on a quality strain, after just one run.