Better out than in, let’s start with the shitty part first ^^
The thing is that only one side represent the vast majority of the volumes and of the print-foot, for the better and the worse. It’s not a bit of both, it’s letting the major power of industrial methods crushing the creativity. I losted my soul in this, it’s a testimony that come from the heart. A rage too.
“Attitude Seedbank”, the marketing of the brits was quite “nostradamus” in fact. Let’s say it’s one of my grid.
It wasn’t the race it appear but hell … when two guys pretended to have the best “name what you want”, something was happening. It was groovy and all, but fuck something always was happening for the sake of everyone finally. Whatever the angle : new tech of production, experiments, strains fights … everything was an excuse to pass to the next step seeds and clones in hands. It wasn’t a competition of walls of smoke.
And it was a fucking good show also, in bonus to give fresh meat to the pack behind the Alphas. Historically, none place produced such a number of big actors for the next decades. It had a reason. At this time the american grows was mesmerizing us also, remember the insane growlogs lol. They was in the same shit than us but holly shit, they dialed it full throttle like it was the end of the world tomorrow.
The v2 have this potential, but we have to deal with a new wave of growers that were very minor in past : people discovering (obviously) everything on the late, but pretending the reverse. I don’t see the point to don’t play open poker seriously.
Let me throw a strict truth : You can pop up in the scene in saying openly you just begin to grow, or pretend to make seeds since 400 BC … none stoner on earth will ever truly give a fuck if the weed rox. Me first lol
That’s the concrete truth that make all these noises so ridiculous finally at the end of the chain. It work for the casual stoner, it work with the higher spheres of the industry, it even work for the streets. Since ever. With weed you don’t need marketing, you don’t need stories, you don’t need dramas … you just need a weed that is loving a niche. And eventually, that become more popular.
But you can’t win all the time, all catalogs have their highs and lows. It’s even not predictable when. One year you can push hard a line that no one give a fuck, then 5 years later get a rush on this one suddenly … without really knowing why. I’ve even a case i found by luck in getting intel on the Cheese yesterday :
I present you the Stargazer (AG). It’s a STK#4 x “ICM cut” given by a friend of my community. I sourced it three times when the friend told me he wasn’t very sure of the ID of the cut (during the process), i got it as SSH, Amnezia Haze and ECSD. lmao So who the fuck know, but the weed was dope at least. Names aren’t something that restrain me.
It was rockstable and supposed to be a grail for a niche : sativa flowers inside a fast indica backbone. The seed line falled flat. Big facepalm and i never knew why. I launch all i have for my stash and to share with friends … it finished by an insane demand of clones. The whole north Catalunia smoked Stargazer in 2009, i even smelled my weed on the beaches. I can’t even rationalize this on the personal selection, the line was stable as fuck just clones in seeds to the smoke. Pure nonsense.
This example is the most extreme i have, but i have plenty of derivative examples only in my own old genpools. It’s the game, and you’re not forced to answer to this with one bazillion of versions of the same thing. It’s more counterproductive than the reverse by the way, you’re reducing your chance to grasp a niche that will bump your lab this way. And you’re increasing the power of the lows, because your whole set is affected. Well i play captain obvious there lol
So any temptation to write strains in the marble is vain. It’s all about the zeitgeist and your faculty to understand the cycles by the ones you lived previously. As stoner, it’s not even a breeding question.
It make the emulation necessary and a positive dynamic, to get out from the “lost island syndrom” (a plague for breeders) but also from the auto-hype (never trust friends on your weed), even more toxic for your competitiveness. When this dynamic fall, the market is saturated with soups. And it’s even more a great opportunity to easily get out from the mud, if you have done your “home’s shores”. Sincerely everything is in the wikis i wrote lol I hide nothing on this part. What i’m hiding is what i transmit only to my successive padawans, and it’s not even secrets. But a method build on constraints depending on stricts contexts. Even if i wanted, i will not be able to share it. We have all our specific comfort zones, it’s just impossible past a point to don’t ultra-specialize the skills. And i swear, each stoner its pathway even taken from scratch without any hint of knowledge.
I hope they will join the “Exodus II Project” then. In force, with all these seeds. And learn maybe a bit more about the initial real spirit of the Cheese. It’s not only a funky and singular smoke, but a whole philosophy behind.
I can’t integrate this kind of project buddy, i probed. A lot are doing it by passion, if i start to imply myself technically in those repros … it will be all but well perceived. In OG it’s quite territorial also, and i’m very able to respect this even if it’s often hidden behind the little finger ^^ I find it very good, emulating trough a tacite competition of the most “reliable” reproducer. Just not for me for various reasons.
I let cool down the thing for now, it’s announced now so no one will say “WTF”. I hope. The more funny is that i will sweat blood to source the cut, to help anyone to enter in the game … for a weed i don’t even can smoke more than an half blunt. At this intensity of aromas, i prefer a SD by far. But i don’t pretend to be Jesus so no one will even understand that i don’t like the weed but the Exodus spirit as an ancient related to sound systems ^^ Very practical to hunt a cheese: you have to just ask description and details on persons to debunk instantly the “i was there, i’m the first, i made it” and all this shit. Even by the name of the sound system it’s very easy. I find it pathetic and unproductive, specifically for this cut.
lmao, replacing the neons with LED is something for me indeed. But hell, i’m impressed by the performances of this 18w panel of supermarket on the SD. My padawan is full LED, high density, i pump intel also directly from him since the start of this year. And I’ve that the datas are reliable and ego-free too. It help a lot to loose a bit my own obsessions.
Next week, i clone the SD and a true quest will start. I want to know the truth on this and nothing better that the SD to show it. If one of the three lines of cuts is drifting … i will directly know it.
I will refine my “SSTS” on this cut (and the Cheese ^^). Both are very technical to reverse, in doses but also in the timing of application. It mean a shit ton of clones to test different chemical strategies and tempo, i will quickly reach a critical point on the somatic drift subject. After this, no secret … if i have one formula for the SD and one formula for the Cheese … i’ve universal ones for the two main cases of phenos to reverse.
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MTD V, section “Production - Seeds Production” (3 mouse scroll-down).
Feel free to expand if any.
I won ^^ The sat seedling was a BB#5 S1 lol