@Indicadom & Tom
Great to have such a formidable breeders like you aboard.
Here, high up in the northern hemisphere we experience a severe lack of capable 'auto' breeders.
With all your knowledge and expertise, I'm sure you could point us in the right direction and tell us were to obtain your highly priced auto flowering genetics.
Common. Now please don't tell us to start reading and spent a life time reinventing the wheel ourselves.
I was hoping ppl like you would have paved us the way already.
Is any of you having connections out there at your level of expertise that are capable of delivering real distinct auto stuff.
All that has come my way thus far was merely rubbish.
Sorry for going off topic, but I felt like I had to snatch this opportunity.
(yeah I know, I sound like I'm trolling, maybe I'm not. Prolly I'm mostly curious at what you've got to say.)
The problem here with breeding and selecting for feno's is the low light intensity combined to cool temps & high humidity.
Other then size and mold resistence, I'd say all plants are pretty much the same in effect. Hence, I rather turn them all into hash and enjoy it that way.
Did you really just ask why we haven't done all the breeding work in the world for you? Lol...breeding takes time.
They do go hand in hand. You have to create seed to be a breeder, but everyone who creates seed isn't a breeder. If I take Dj's Blueberry and open pollinate it I wouldn't be saying I bred it even tho I produced seeds of it. It was another mans work...
Ahhh, okay! Now I see what you're saying and I totally agree.
You're right, some landraces do exist. But they mostly aren't what people want. They are unimproved and frankly pretty damn hempy when compared to most of the Kush and Chems that get passed around today. Their value I don't doubt and their preservation is important. Genetic diversity doesn't grow on trees But you aren't going to be finding warehouses of them for medicine and they aren't going to be filling everyone's backyards for recreational smoke either.
Of course, but the landrace strains contain valuable properties like hardiness, bug resistance, mold resistance, and resistance to drought. When people are able to start having large fields of cannabis around the world, what happens when they try to take those indoor strains back outdoors? They most likely won't perform as well and breeders might have to reevaluate their stock. These things aren't as important to people who have a couple plants in pots in their backyard. However if you have a lot of plants and end up losing 60% of your crop due to a bug infestation, that is absolutely devastating. Especially when you learn that for some reason the other side of your field isn't affected at all...
Cannabis has progressed, there's no way to stop it. The drug war, real wars, destroyed areas of cultivation, the gene pool is ever changing. The progress of landraces was incredibly slow to begin with. They are our building blocks, but to act like we need to get back to Africa before we breed cannabis or that somehow out in a greenhouse in africa it'll be easier to make advancements than here doesn't make any sense to me.
I agree, cannabis has come a long way but we aren't out of the woods yet. All the strains we have today came from these places, why wouldn't you want to go back to the source to look for more treasure? I am not suggesting going to Africa, I am suggesting having their politicians no longer pressured to pursue cannabis growers. Then we will be able to get 100,000 seeds at a time from a particular region and grow them out. I mean imagine if multiple farms were growing out multiple crops of 100,000 plants? That would be an incredible treasure trove! And depending on what lottery you play, the chances of winning are...say, 1 in 100 million. How long would it take you to go through 100 million plants? That doesn't even guarantee you'll get that golden ticket either.
The DNA cannot lie.
The answer is likely nothing. There is a PAR region of the cannabis Y that already recombines in females. I've seen no evidence of loss of value with properly selected gynoecious lines so I'm still waiting on Dave.
Exactly, I want to be able to have a grower bring something to me, take a sample, run a test, and be like...shit's clean! Lol. Hmmm, maybe he will pop back up in a day or two.