In thinking about most of the fames, the legends, the dramas, the strange stories arounds cuts/strains/seeds, the factual links between all strains, the real context of the industry, even OG lol … the analogy is maybe not as stoned that it appear 
It’s very relevant, even if personally i put more the fems in this context. Since the start i consider it as a “Monsantesque shame” of our own (global) community. Behind the “vegan grow”, the quest for “authenticity” and all the hipster veil … they eat fems by kilogrammers. It’s time to charge the canons, to revive Libertalia and to break paper ships ^^
Protecting a (natural) F1 with skills isn’t a thing i will blame personally. I’ve in head way too much persons prone to amnesia and very ungrateful behaviors, it’s a legit defensive strategy. Some are even presented like christic figures, to have factually fucked deeply the scene they come from lol. And considering the fem’s success and volumes, not so much a problematic obviously for motherplant’s hunters.
For the real genetic material anyway, this is no longer a public market since a good decade in my opinion. For the best and the worst as usual. I fucking digress.
Yes, it’s a pain to maintain, and stressful. You have to watch these motherplants constantly and to renew them constantly too to keep them in their best shape. Most of strains losted for diluted versions was just too much aging plants that breeders don’t considered as an annual but as an immortal tree.
I’ve pushed more far, just for the fun of it and to renew the pressure/pleasure. I’ve replaced my veg space by seeds. Literally. And actually … i fucking love it, finally. Hesitation and waste of time with average specimens become an unnecessary luxury, it produce a more focusing context and avoid any temptation to shortcut the wanted standard. But it require reactivity and to take breeding decisions on the fly in term of selection, still a hard old fashioned school.
Take care to don’t avoid efficient tools just by principle. I use BX if i need to, no hesitation. It doesn’t have the same implication at long term than a reversal have. Sometimes also you have to keep a reference around to be sure to outperform the previous generation, because it become tight. No need to set a constant nursery for this. Cannabis don’t specially dislike temporary short ghetto solution with enough love, it stay a sturdy and versatile plant. Keeping around a cannabonsai is not a big deal, at the moment you understand fully (on the vegetal mechanisms) why it’s a bad idea to keep it more than 6 months.
Breeding is generating a cascading number of problem to face, a complete toolbox is required. In case of.
But on the principle i’m more than understanding you, it’s now a daily routine for me. A bet with some friends too ^^
It’s a dangerous shortcut, most of these clones have a story and a true ballistic. It’s why they still alive today in almost everything. I’m not talking about the grow op cuts, but true breeding cuts that are traded for 5 digits. Sometimes even more, the aridity of skills and the quest for the “easiness/quicksilver” have drastically changed the game in the backstages.
Stoners were a lot more demanding also, throwing a random chunk in the market was a suicide. Time have changed, as the perceived value for the price.
Now on a pragmatic point of view … it’s just a cut entering in production. When nothing around can compete this motherplant (sometimes during decades), it’s a bit foolish to don’t get your reward. At least a time.
Ahoy to this ^^ It’s at the base of the wall that you don’t realize that you’re representing a minority, but that you’re most of the time alone. It’s why i like also breeding chit chat, it’s the opportunity to generate maybe new sailors with a map that lead somewhere. And avoiding/preventing the usual bullshitting that push wannabe to crash fast and hard. It’s a dry game, the rate of loses is very high.
You’re partially right. 75% of the work is to fail. 25% is to know why. Until you’re reaching a cruising speed with decent lines, and it become more an artistic marathon after.
But no, you don’t drive an IBL to the failure. It’s an unique lesson to learn, you never do it again trust me. It’s why it’s important to never randomize your moves and always know what you’re doing and why. It’s the principle of mapping a genotype.
At the start it’s all about degraded progeny, then step by step … it become a standard you don’t want to sacrify.
Unfortunately, the disparition of the taste for factual competition promoted self-hype more than i’m able to guess. I’m more and more surprised. It’s a bad thing imho.
And yes, i abandoned the idea to work with cookie stuff the day i was forced to do it ^^ It’s sane. It’s segregation. And the combo of your personal segregations create a true signature in your weeds. As well as to be an unconditional fan of everything cookie, don’t get me wrong on it. USA is obviously waiting for the ultimate cookie, and everybody know that it will not come from Berner. A slot is to take. Like many others.
We are talking here about an half century momentum, if you still have doubts on the legitimacy of dedication and specialization … you’re in front of a philosophic problematic and it’s not my ground at all ^^
Doubts are useless, challenging the said standards is more rewarding at long term.
It’s simple to know if you hit the jackpot : the price of your safety increase drastically so much that you have to make decent bucks to cover your asses.
On poly-hybrid “witch hunt”, i just don’t buy this argument that i find too much spreaded lightly. It’s for me a very bad way to analyze the situation. The disparition of R&D is a problem, the random chunk is a problem, not the poly-hybrids.
Factually it doesn’t have any sense for me, you can drive a poly far in stabilization and output a true new genetic material. It’s the very wrong culprit to burn.
Both approach are legit, and i got the proof of it many time. The only difference is the planification, someone structured can plan and evaluate the time needed for something. An artist not.
But there is no hierarchy in term of weed. Just repeatability and duration in the game.
Modern youth is dumb on this point, they don’t understand that both approach are complementary. If they stop to play role-games and to jump at the throat of each others one minute, they will realize that they are fighting with their best allies to change the whole game. Let’s say again that it’s an opinion, but i really think it.
I’m often disappointing, it’s the particularity to have nothing to sell door-to-door like an encyclopedia seller ^^
I’m searching herms, i generating them, i scratch deep to declare them. And more today than ever.
I can open a Patreon if you want to know all little secrets lol But no, rotting buds and mildiew/fungi attacks are two different resistances. As the leverage that trigger them. You’re right on the density by the way.
Let’s call it botanical varieties if you need it. I don’t mind.
Your open pollination is not a time machine at all. You can’t know what phenotype+phenotype = success or what phenotype+phenotype = failure. It’s a bland round and a Russian roulette strategy. You’e falling in the wishful thinking buddy here. But i don’t mind about it, whats wrong with this. Nothing for me.
But presenting an open pollination as a methodology is way more pushy for my taste, and i can’t ignore it in considering the popularity of this way to avoid any responsibility in the process. Also when i see valuable materials handled with the insane risks that represent this absence of strategy, it make me mad.
It’s not a judgement, just another voice on what you’re claiming that i find important to share.