I will maybe not qualify the outdoor trend as catastrophic than you, mainly because the USA “regulation” pushed the outdoor’s crops to something than i qualify incredible from here. I’m sincere and i’ve tasted some imported nuggets from Col. dispensaries also, one outdoor Ghost Train Haze still stay in mind since soon twos years now.
On grow side, the trend of enormous “californian boababs” maded with indoor strains is also there to temperate my opinion on this vein. When you live from it, you don’t take the risk to bet so many pounds per plant if you’ve not a solid genetic in hand.
In term of breeding, for sure i will not develop an indoor strain the same way than an outdoor strain. But this is not necessary to develop it exclusively outdoor; i will reserve than for jewels than i want to develop along a good decade only. Outdoor breeding don’t only require experience, but also a specific “know how” to never lost one year of work.
I sincerely understand why most of breeders don’t play the outdoor card, it’s a very risky bet to stay on the game between twos hyped-kush-of-the-year. And a very long term bet, no one today will invest in long term project. Or even support them.
On fiber and seeds, the industry of hemp is what we was supposed to copy. Long IBLs are legions, near all certified, and the range of your choices in term of strain is more accurate than ever. I don’t think than any philosophical stress must be created from this part, the work is done and keep going since centuries.
For me, the long term damages are allready running full throttle since soon twos decades in our industry, and it’s getting worse each additionnal year. But it’s a matter of people, not plants. Specific skills, “know how”, methods, experiences and their knowledges are just disapearing from the “everyone culture”. I like to see it like wheel than turn for another cycle, it’s a positive image to share a negative feedback. Because i’ve stopped to like “new strains” of podiums since twos decades.
I don’t rely on abstraction like gov’s regulations or anything like that to search a cause, the cause is us and no one else. I think than we have the cannabis we deserve to wish the most, as a whole community. So i don’t really complain about my lack of interests for the new game, i accept that really and compensate it in creating a “time machine” with plants than make me happy.
Bud and resin production is all the rage since the begin of the story, and it lead the cannabis scene since the begin also. Maybe we can debate on trendy extracts in being picky, and considering than top grade technics in extract’s field can compensate top grade genetic in the flower field. But it’s not really justified imho to link it with the consequences of the “next gen market”.
Loving at least one of these lines at the point to dedicate your lifespan and budget to it is for me the practical way to insure a future to these strains. Because if they fall in the forgotten abyss, it’s at the basis because no one care about them for different reasons. But the consequence is unique : it will extinguish in the darwinian game of the market if someone don’t care about that. And if all is running well.
I was maintaining a ghanna landrace since my prime age and a zamal landrace since the early 2000’s, and reached one point where i was in the obligation to blend them to keep them in my genpool. Speedy relocation, long turn over of plants in these lines, no choice. It was the third time i’ve gived my entire genpool to someone to keep it running during my hard times. And it was the third time than my entire genpool was totally lost lol It’s a solo performance, i can’t be convinced in another way now.
Now on most of natives locations of these original strains, new lines was introduced. The real story of the Durban Poison in the nineties and the nigerian weed scene is imho the perfect explanations of what must be kept in idealism and what is rationnal to think about landraces.
If it’s not a guaranteed key to create “super outdoor plants” at all, it stay a passionating way to explore for sure. But introducing randomly raws landraces in anything will lead nowhere. Better to refine these landraces pures in conformity with an accurate goal in term of hybrids, at least to make them enough competitive to insure than eventually they will survive you.
From my point of view, it’s better to keep them pure as a library for the future. But in don’t letting them go down to hay grade, in improving them. “Unworked” don’t mean for me quality, it mean than the intrinsic qualities of the line was judged to don’t deserve any long term dedication. So the reverse.
It’s an idea i had in past, many times. Taking my whole genpool (at this time it mean the whole africaan continent in landraces and a fews dozens of modern jewels), sowing it directly in soil in March then … restarting from here with an unique mix than i drive to an unique long term strain maded with a fews segregated lines.
If i become millionary and can secure a space for that, i’m sure i will dot it in my old days. But yeah, it don’t have any form of utility. You don’t maintain and care of important landraces as pures, and you can’t live from it the first 5 years at least. The time to stabilize this firework and to make it enough competitive to be bankable.
See ya next quote ^^
