though the task itself is easy. After all it's growing and selecting cannabis plants ffs.Well, today, it seems, anything that needs patience and commitment is hard even
It's just a bad business plan to work for a decade or more on a variety and then sell it just to have the copy cats and pollen chuckers knock it off and steal your market share.
So, no one is doing any real work and those who do don't sell their pure varieties.
The customer's selection bred the breeders... Bad selection = bad breeders. Easy. In times when the name is the most important trait of a plant, lotsa bad choices are being made.
Agreed, that was my only point.
As a OD grower and seed only true seed breeders don't exist(exaggeration) or are very hard to find.
Now in my mind Monsanto is the devil but I happen to know first hand well actually second hand, from someone that works there, it takes aprox 7 years for them to come out with a new seed strain. So again true seed breeding isn't easy( I know you didn't debate that fact just repeating for emphasis ). Pheno hunting is easy but that doesn't make a good reliable seed strain.
Maybe the thread starter should put more of a emphasis on what he actually meant but I took it as seeds not pheno hunting.