Clone guide · 2026-07-30
The price column on the board runs from $69 to around $99, with rare cuts above that. The spread is not random. Here is the economics underneath it.
That price covers real horticultural labor: maintaining a healthy, tested mother plant, taking the cutting, rooting it for weeks, and packing a live plant to survive shipping. It lands close to the price of a six-pack of decent seeds, which is the fair comparison, because one rooted female replaces the several seeds you would burn getting to one confirmed keeper.
Scarcity and provenance, not potency. A $99 listing is usually a lower-circulation cross or a documented selection that fewer nurseries carry; a $69 listing can out-test it. You are paying for how hard the genetics are to obtain and verify, the same way rare plant markets price everything else.
Genuine breeder cuts with famous names can run into the hundreds elsewhere. When our board shows two quotes for the same cut, the price difference between sources is itself useful information.
Usually, once you count everything. A seed's sticker price hides germination losses, males you discard at week six, and a month of extra veg time getting to clone size. A $69 rooted female that yields a few ounces indoors prices your flower at single-digit dollars per gram on the first run, and near zero after, since a healthy clone can become a mother that supplies every future cycle for free.
Pheno hunting. If your goal is finding a new keeper nobody else has, you want the genetic variety of a seed run. If your goal is a known result on a schedule, the board exists for you. Most experienced growers do both: hunt in seeds occasionally, produce from cuts always. Start with the cannabis clones for sale board to see what a known result costs today.
Written by Mike Hawley for the Cannabis Clones For Sale reference desk.
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