Bagseed is any seed found in a bag of purchased flower. Its mother is unknown in practice, its father is completely unknown, and in modern sinsemilla it very often comes from self-pollination by a plant that threw pollen sacs or bananas late in flower.
In practice
Many growers' first plant is bagseed, and some turn out well. The risk is genetic: if the seed came from an intersex plant, the offspring are more likely to carry the same tendency. Expect a mix of sexes, a wide spread of types and a higher-than-normal chance of intersex flowers.
If you grow bagseed, treat it as a test: watch closely for pollen sacs from week 3 of flower onward, keep it away from any plants you care about, and do not breed from it unless you have grown out enough offspring to rule out herm tendency.
Don't confuse with
- Regular seed: deliberately made from a chosen male and female, with known parents.
- Feminised seed: made deliberately by sex-reversing a selected female. Bagseed from a herm is accidental and untested.
- Landrace seed: open-pollinated seed from a known population and region.
Myth check
"Seeds in good weed are normal." In well-grown sinsemilla they are not. Seeds mean pollen reached the flowers, either from a male or from an intersex plant. See hermaphrodites.
Sinsemilla (sensi) is seedless cannabis flower from unpollinated female plants; the word is Spanish for "without seed".Selfing is pollinating a plant with its own pollen, in cannabis usually by reversing part of a female to make pollen; it is the most intense form of inbreeding.The pollen-producing part of a stamen; in cannabis each male flower has five anthers that split to shed wind-blown pollen.In cannabis growing, a plant (usually female) that develops both pistillate and staminate flowers or anthers; botanists call it intersex or monoecious expression.Herm-prone describes a line whose plants often produce intersex flowers; GenetixBay treats this as a breeding fault and a reason not to breed from it.Feminised seed is seed made by pollinating a female with pollen from another female (or itself) that was chemically reversed, so nearly every seed grows into a female.A landrace is a traditional, locally adapted cannabis population kept by farmers in one region over many generations, with its own type and plenty of internal variation.Open-pollinated seed comes from a population left to cross freely among its own plants, without controlled pairs, which keeps a line's variation and type over generations.Nanners (bananas) are exposed, banana-shaped anthers on a female flower: a hermaphrodite trait, not a normal part of late flowering, and a reason to cull.Regular seed comes from a normal cross of a female and a male, so it produces roughly half female and half male plants.
