CharlesU Farley
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I haven't bought cannabis seeds in almost 25 years now. Wouldn't even know where to begin, because I'm a skeptical fuck and I know how much bovine excrement is mixed in with marketing, just to sling some seeds.
But in an ideal world, were you could actually talk/communicate with the person chucking pollen (shows what a dinosaur I am, I should have said "swishing chemicals/hormones" to be current), here are some of the questions _I_ would ask of a “breeder”, a term that is so misused that when I type it, I get a little throw up in my mouth.
Here's some questions to think about asking, if you could:
How long have you been developing cannabis, not growing it, but actually using male and female cannabis plants where the primary purpose was to produce _seeds_, not consumable cannabis?
Do you actually use staminate and pistillate plants for seed production or do you use chemicals to genetically modify the sexuality of the plant?
How, when and where did you obtain the initial seeds that were a part of this development, and how many actual seeds did you use in the initial grow? How many plants were there and were they uniform in color, shape and size?
What is the growing/developing environment for the cannabis that you develop for seeds? Do you use older, traditional HID lighting such as HPS/MH or do you utilize LED? Organic or chemical fertilizers? What growing medium… hydro, soil, coco?
What typical number of plants do you grow to develop seeds and what is the largest number of plants you've ever had complete responsibility for?
How many generations of plants have you used to standardize and stabilize this variety of cannabis and what methods did you use?
What chemicals, hormones or insecticides have been used in the maintenance of your plants? In addition, what type of water is used for your cannabis, have you had it tested, and if so, how long ago?
What is the general frequency/percentage of hermaphroditic plants you have experienced and what do you think the cause of them might have been?
Who else has grown these seeds, were they provided free of charge by you for a review, and how did you determine the exact length of the flowering cycle.
Are you the only source of the seeds I’m interested in or are there other vendors who trust you skills as cannabis “breeder” enough to sell your product?
If a cannabis developer has experience and actually knows what they're doing, they'll not only be eager to answer them, they'll be _proud_ of the answers they give.
But in an ideal world, were you could actually talk/communicate with the person chucking pollen (shows what a dinosaur I am, I should have said "swishing chemicals/hormones" to be current), here are some of the questions _I_ would ask of a “breeder”, a term that is so misused that when I type it, I get a little throw up in my mouth.
Here's some questions to think about asking, if you could:
How long have you been developing cannabis, not growing it, but actually using male and female cannabis plants where the primary purpose was to produce _seeds_, not consumable cannabis?
Do you actually use staminate and pistillate plants for seed production or do you use chemicals to genetically modify the sexuality of the plant?
How, when and where did you obtain the initial seeds that were a part of this development, and how many actual seeds did you use in the initial grow? How many plants were there and were they uniform in color, shape and size?
What is the growing/developing environment for the cannabis that you develop for seeds? Do you use older, traditional HID lighting such as HPS/MH or do you utilize LED? Organic or chemical fertilizers? What growing medium… hydro, soil, coco?
What typical number of plants do you grow to develop seeds and what is the largest number of plants you've ever had complete responsibility for?
How many generations of plants have you used to standardize and stabilize this variety of cannabis and what methods did you use?
What chemicals, hormones or insecticides have been used in the maintenance of your plants? In addition, what type of water is used for your cannabis, have you had it tested, and if so, how long ago?
What is the general frequency/percentage of hermaphroditic plants you have experienced and what do you think the cause of them might have been?
Who else has grown these seeds, were they provided free of charge by you for a review, and how did you determine the exact length of the flowering cycle.
Are you the only source of the seeds I’m interested in or are there other vendors who trust you skills as cannabis “breeder” enough to sell your product?
If a cannabis developer has experience and actually knows what they're doing, they'll not only be eager to answer them, they'll be _proud_ of the answers they give.
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