DONT THROW AWAY YOUR BAG SEEED

[Sparky 6]

 

[bs0]

I used to love bagseed..
(my handle is bs0, named after my first bagseed that i germinated)
But they are so goddamned unstable! If i never see another nanner it is too soon!

 

[Dr.Snow]

oops

 

[Dr.Snow]

love bagseed

love bagseed

this was one of my favorite plants, and came from bagseed

streched out like a sat then flowered like an indica and was hazy and something else...

http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=749089&ppuser=159

http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=749091&ppuser=1594242

 

[TripleAOnly]

ive gotten purple diesel, og kushes, lemon skunks, all sorts of tasty bag seed..


even some of the regs seeds I've grown out have been alright...

others were just plain hempy.

definitely grow out bagseed you never know what you will get

 

[rastaidd]

very very nice man!!

 

[Sparky 6]

very very nice man!!

Thanks a lot fellas. This is from a first time grower too.

 

[HansHanf]

never throw away your bagseed

never throw away your bagseed

nice buds @ll

hans

 

[Lisdexik]

Nice one Hans

I was wondering what you were growing when I looked at your albums haha

Gotta love those BS's

Lisdexik

 

[HansHanf]

Nice one Hans

I was wondering what you were growing when I looked at your albums haha

Gotta love those BS's

Lisdexik

thx friend

yeah my next batch of this lovely ladies is on the run and in the 5th
week of 12/12 pictures comin up...
the ones above are still from the last run...

 

[High Country]

Bagseed SOG.

 

[HansHanf]

^^^^nice one High Country got some more??

hans

 

[MumblyJumJum]

Grown exclusively bagseed over the years. These are a couple of crosses I've made -- I currently have clones of four of my better plants going. I've finally gotten around to ordering some 'actual' strains, and I guess we'll see whether the bagseed clones can compete.

 

[HansHanf]

lookin sticky mumbly

 

[Sparky 6]

Here's how those buds dried.

One of the most powerful strains I've ever smoked. Kept the original as a mother and have 4 clones of this going for this grow.

 

[BudWiz]

these are my first female bagseeds, I was told it was white widow But we´ll see. Pretty bad pics but i´ll get som new one soon enough as they grow bigger.

 

[michael68]

Beautiful plants in this thread.

Hope I can contribute at the end of next season.

 

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[rexamus616]

@33 degrees. I'm very impressed with your plants. Most people laugh at bagseed but I find it more interesting than the vast majority of what I see other people growing. I'm very glad you posted them. When I think of bagseed I think of our compressed stuff. Not bagseed of gdp or whatever. Those seeds like you grow are old long standing genetics not available anywhere else. So if you like the stuff you have make sure to keep it and breed with it, because the chances of ever finding stuff like it again is slim to none, and it gets replaced with dutch stuff more and more every year.

At any rate I'm with you 100% on your observation of seeds from bigger buds but I don't take it the way you mean.

You speak the wisdom of an old southern grower who knows a thing or two about brick. The main thing to assure you get good buds out of bagseed (aside from selection) is to pick your seeds out of large resinous buds. Not the seeds from the shake at the end of the bag, never pick all seeds out and drop them back in the same bag. You pick seeds directly out of large resinous buds and set them aside. That is the secret to turning Bobby Brown into sexy mexi.

But IMHO this doesn't have anything to do with the location of the bud on the plant, or amount of growth hormone contained in the top cola. It's simply about fields of weed. You can't see what the plant you are smoking looks like and it is a huge mistake to assume there is only one, or two, or even three plants in a single ounce much less a QP. A field of weed of literally thousands of different phenos with varying grades of quality are all eventually chopped, trimmed, mixed, and bricked together.

Without picking seeds from large resinous colas, you have NO guarantee that the loose seeds in your bag are anything worth your time. Most of them come from average plants in the field, and some of them are from runts. When you choose the large resinous colas you have a guarantee they are from the best mothers you had access to in what you bought.

You have no control on the fathers of any bagseed, but by choosing the buds the seeds come from you at least know something about the quality the mother produced. Picking seeds out of the shake of your bag or random crappy "popcorn" buds will leave in a truly blind crap shoot. And probably make you another guy who laughs at the quality of bagseed.

Regardless of why. Choosing seeds directly from the larger resinous buds of the bag does in fact increase your yield and quality. That is a tip every old school southern grower I've ever respected abides by. Try both and you'll do it too.

Very well said. and I agree, choosing your seeds from large resinous buds should increase the chances of growing something of similar or better quality.....

and the gene-pool in these massive fields yous speak of would also be massive....

I believe seed size to be an indicator of how long the seed will last (in storage) and also that a large seed should have more 'energy reserves' to rely on at germination (big seed = big 'water leaves'?) therefore have a greater chance of survival....?



Also, what of the location of a seed in the bud itself? Its been another theory of mine that the seeds closest to the main stem of any bud should have been pollinated earlier (by early sprouting males). Seeds higher up etc. may have been pollinated by hermies that were missed.

I know there would be exceptions to this rule, but it seems fairly sound in the context of the area I live in anyway...