To paraphrase Dr. Carl Sagan:
"If you wish to make a cannabis strain from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
IMO no marijuana seed is worth $20. I've paid that, but I prefer to buy from the knock-off breeders like Beanhoarder and Dynafem . I don't buy into this unethical argument. Mother Nature didn't intend for genetics to be controlled by a few. Monsanto is a prime example of genetics and the law going too far.
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Sam unless you are to continue work and select and release skunk line and selections to match your preference, this not longer is your line alone, you choose to work and share to it with community
gratis or at cost, you choose to release this....also am keen to think similar thinks at why you are not release many of this genetics you are to acquire....
how easy for make the seed, it come down to genetic variability and possible combinations therewithin
you know this
such the bottleneck is not what is available, rather what not is available
perhap you are to work a personal line and keep private this is your decision but also keep with mind you offer for sale skunk1 and if others are to continue and work this line regardless of selections and quality within the variety is still skunk1
a breeder is only as good as the last sachets of seed, as the seed is perishable, love and energy must always continue to be put into anything
cannabis exist before human, cannabis own more the human mind than the human are to own the cannabis....think to that
more breeder than any human, the sun the soil, the air, the water, all this things are life and alive with positive vibrations
You don't see vegetable breeders spruiking about there keen eye for selection etc., or producing posters with captions like 'The King of Bok Choi'.
To be honest for you to decide Skunk #1 is not mine is hard for me to fathom, it is like someone saying a painting is not the artists work because he sold it. It is still the artists work.
Skunk #1 will always be my work.
I did choose to share with the community, it is some of the community that knocked of Skunk #1 seeds and sold them under the name I invented, Skunk #1, so they could make profit. Are you saying they deserve to profit from my work just because they can knock it off?? Oh, by the way I do continue to work with Skunk #1 every year, not that it makes any difference.
As for the sun soil and air and water being a breeder, then why don't you smoke unimproved by man Cannabis? Because it is the hand of man that selects and creates Cannabis that people want to smoke... No one I know smokes Cannabis that is unimproved by man, no one.
My philosophy, Is if i purchase your strain I have the right to do whatever I want with it. you should always give credit to the breeder though. but if i purchase a strain and want to breed with it I'm not going to ask a breeder for permission...it's my strain just as much as it is theirs. lol just thinking about it..most strains were made with stolen or "secret" genetics anyway
The primary question is what is the reality of the situation?
The reality is that many knocked-off Skunk#1 and sold them beans with that same name at a profit...period!
Everything else is simply your interpretation, based on your beliefs and assumptions.
I can't really grasp why you can't accept the truth and let it go --- for so many years?
Even if you had an agreement signed or a patent, or the word from the people that they wouldn't do this, it wouldn't matter, reality is still what it IS.
You seem to think that reality shouldn't be the way it is, that it should be the way you think it should be.
This is obviously a massive fantasy and delusion (that you are currently not aware of for some reason).
This can be observed in how many times you mention the words I, me, mine, etc. in your posts in relation to Skunk#1.
The resistence that you feel is based on a feeling of incapacity. You are incapable of stopping these folks from profiting from Skunk#1, so all you are left with is irritation and being pissed off in relation to these cannabis entrepreneurs, or from your perspective "thieves."
How many years have passed since this occured, and you still can't accept that reality will always be whatever it is?
Should and shouldn't are words that we use for arguing with reality, resisting what is, and it hasn't worked for anyone for thousands of years....you are not an exception to this rule.
Reality is still what it is...and always and only will be what it is.
There are no exceptions, this is the nature of reality.
It's not like you're the only one to work with cannabis, but you are one of the few that continues to stay pissed off that in your imagination you got ripped off by folks that are using the name Skunk#1 for making profits.
Did you think that people are all honest, and would send you money for selling beens under the name that you invented?
did yu ever see ******s knockoff ? escobar knock off ? nirvana knockoff ?
no just because there is no money to make by the guys if the original seeds go for low price.
so if you don't wanna see knock off from your strains, sell them for a decent price !!! it's only seeds, not gold... :lol:
when i say, i have never met anyone who´s not a bit of an asshole, occasionally at least.
i mean to say, lets just stop this fucking childish bickering, please?
you guys are Not Toking enough.
To be honest for you to decide Skunk #1 is not mine is hard for me to fathom, it is like someone saying a painting is not the artists work because he sold it. It is still the artists work. Skunk #1 will always be my work. I did choose to share with the community, it is some of the community that knocked of Skunk #1 seeds and sold them under the name I invented, Skunk #1, so they could make profit. Are you saying they deserve to profit from my work just because they can knock it off?? Oh, by the way I do continue to work with Skunk #1 every year, not that it makes any difference.
As for the sun soil and air and water being a breeder, then why don't you smoke unimproved by man Cannabis? Because it is the hand of man that selects and creates Cannabis that people want to smoke... No one I know smokes Cannabis that is unimproved by man, no one.
-SamS
were all about the money, american way, if theres no money in it, noone is interested.
it is a sad situation, guys like sam who have done much more for breeding then all the wannabes out there put together.
the growers buyin the knockoffs are really the damn problem, they have no effin ethics imo. if they went with the guys that made the lines and not all the hacks, those hacks would be down the road. so what if they cost just a bit more, at least the cash goes where it should, and you have original offerings in your stable, not FAKES.
when ya go to the store, and buy whatever, do you buy name brand, or knockoffs from china?? quality or quantity? cheap shit or good shit?
we can argue this till the end of time, not gonna make a diff at all in the end. its all about the money always will be, spent a bit of time in norcal, observed growers there, its not about the plant, its about the poundage, and six figures, vacations, fast cars, boats, 4wheelers, blah, blaah ,blah nothin else.
like any other biz, make as much chedddar as possible, crush the competition, move up in the world.
whew im ramblin now