A renamed cut is a clone of an existing cultivar given a new name, whether by accident (a lost label), to hide its source, or to market it as something new. "Same cut, a thousand names" describes how far this has gone.
In practice
Genetic studies of retail cannabis show that samples with the same name are often genetically different, and samples with different names can be near-identical (Sawler et al. 2015). For a grower, it means buying a "new" cut may get you a plant you already have, and a "rare" cut may be a common one with a story attached.
Don't confuse with
- Phenotype names: "#4" or "pink pheno" marks one individual from a seed lot, which is legitimate if the source is stated.
- Remake: a new cross openly reusing an old name.
Myth check
GenetixBay position (Supported): renaming is out of hand and part of why "everything tastes the same". The same narrow pool of material is being relabelled and hybridised into everything, diluting the gene pool. A name alone is the weakest evidence level. GB-IDs, recorded chains of custody and DNA matches are the fix. See same cut, a thousand names.
The phenotype is what a plant visibly and measurably is (shape, colour, smell, chemistry, timing), the result of its genotype acting in a particular environment.In grower slang, a pheno is one individual plant from a seed lot, usually numbered during a hunt, as in "the #4 pheno".A seed run is a dedicated grow in which selected parents are crossed to produce a batch of seed, as opposed to growing for flower.The gene pool is the total set of alleles present in a population, cultivar group or species; a narrow gene pool limits what breeders can select from.A GB-ID is GenetixBay's permanent identifier, such as GB-GEN-0001842-6, for a genetic line, landrace, seed batch, plant, cut, grow, harvest, trial or document, so records never get lost or renamed.A cut is slang for a clone of one specific plant, used to mean that individual genotype, as in "the original cut".A hype strain is a cultivar name in heavy demand because of marketing or social media, regardless of how stable or distinctive the genetics are.An elite cut is a famous, proven clone-only plant, often held by a few growers and traded rather than sold openly.Strain is the popular word for a named cannabis variety; it is used loosely, and studies show strain names are an unreliable guide to genetics or chemistry.
