"It simply means that this specific plant under the name you know circulates only in form of a living plant,"
Quoted from the link you gave me. So how can someone be growing clone only Exodus from seed....? I still don't get how it can be clone only if you can buy the seed - the two things contradict eachother.
A lot of plants start off as clone only. Some are a funky bagseed phenos.Sour Diesel started off that way.
Some of these cuts made it to breeders and they reversed, made seeds and started a pheno hunt to find the ideal plant that fits the description of the original plant to get their seed stock from. This is now the beginning of the strain sold as seed.
Once you make seeds they can have genetic variances so this is why they pheno hunt and back cross. Even with years of breeding some strains are more stable than others. Some will show one or two phenos per pack while others show three or four. This could have to do with the skill of the breeder, how long and extensive their breeding program was or how unstable the genetics of original plant were.
Exodus started off as a cut called UK Cheese. This pheno was said to have come from a Skunk #1 grow.
ExoDus is the name of the group of UK breeders that reversed the Cheese cut and found their ideal plant to make seeds. The pheno that they chose became ExoDus Cheese, renamed after the breeder collective that developed it. UK Cheese was clone only. By the time it was renamed ExoDus Cheese it was no longer a clone only chemovar.
Clone only plants don't have to stay that way and eventually most are put into breeding programs. After this they are no longer considered clone only.
You can look up descriptions of strains and come across info that says they are
formally a clone only strain.
Cannaconnection.com has this description of ExoDus. Note the word originally.
Exodus Cheese is a hybrid cannabis variety. It is often referred to as just “
Cheese” or "UK
Cheese”. It is believed to have grown out of Skunk #1 seeds and was originally only available as a clone.
Exodus Cheese is well known for its strong and long-lasting effects, leaving users stoned for up to 4+ hours.
ExoDus worked for many years to stabilize this strain.
I hope I explained that well enough to answer your question. I am
very sleep deprived so I hope it makes any sense at all.
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