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Clone guide · 2026-07-30

How to Read a Cannabis Clone Listing

Every listing on the board carries the same five data points. Here is what each one is actually telling you, and which ones matter for your situation.

What does the THC range on a clone listing mean?

A range like 24 to 28% is the span the cut has produced across documented grows, not a promise for yours. Clones make these numbers more meaningful than seeds do: because a cutting is genetically identical to its tested mother, the top of the range is genuinely reachable with strong light and proper feeding. With seeds, the range describes a family; with clones, it describes your actual plant.

Treat the bottom of the range as what a decent grow gets and the top as what a dialed one gets. If two cuts differ by two points of THC, pick on flavor and grow fit instead; nobody can taste two percent.

What is a flowering window and why does it matter?

The flowering window, 8 to 9 weeks on most modern hybrids, is the time from flipping to 12-hour light until harvest. Indoors it decides your electric bill and cycle count per year. Outdoors it decides everything: a cut that needs 10 weeks of flower in a state with late-September frost is a loss you planted yourself.

Our state pages pair real frost dates with the board so the math is done for you. When in doubt, take the longer number in the range and add a week of margin.

What does breeder cut actually mean?

A breeder cut is a clone descended, hand to hand, from the specific plant the breeder selected and named. Seeds of the same strain are siblings of that plant, and siblings vary a lot. When a listing documents its cut's origin, you are buying the exact plant the reputation was built on, which is why verified cuts carry a premium over seed-grown lookalikes.

Why do some listings show no lineage?

Because we refuse to invent one. Some excellent cuts circulate with undisclosed or disputed pedigrees, and a listing that says nothing is more honest than one that repeats a guess. The cuts on our board with blank lineage rows are there on performance; the facts we can verify are the ones we print. Browse the full cannabis clones for sale board and you can compare every documented field side by side.

Written by Mike Hawley for the Cannabis Clones For Sale reference desk.

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