I love researching and learning about terpenes, cannabinoids, and the medicinal properties of various strains and I spend a lot of time thinking about things that could be blended and mixed together whether it’s to enhance flavor or effect and I know a lot of you all feel the same way. So I wanted to see if anybody would be up to start a group breeding project. We could discuss goals we want to achieve and breed towards said goals maybe even vote on which projects get started first or maybe have multiple groups working on different projects all at once. If people had clones or seeds they knew where high in a certain terpene or cannabinoid they could either join or donate to the project. I feel like a lot could be accomplished if we had numbers working together and what better place to do it than here, so many of us are already trading, collecting, and communicating about strains it would be ashame if we didn’t join forces and create something amazing . Over Grow Breeders Group
What are YOU looking for?
Anything with unique flavors/ stuff I l haven’t experienced before. Maybe something for insomnia or arthritis pain. I like fruit and gas strains catpissy incense haze I’m not picky but i’m more so looking for strains with high cbg and thcv. I have a project I’m working on hoping to get it tested next round I suspect it’s high in geraniol it has a very rose geranium and perfume smell and taste like nothing Ive had before would love to mix some more medicinal cannabinoids into but not compromise that flavor.
But this isn’t all about what I want. I often hear people say they miss certain flavors and effects let’s bring those back and make them better is my thought on this. Let’s take blueberry for example lots of people say you can’t find real blueberry anymore let’s work something that’s undeniable blueberry that breeds true for that trait.
Well it’s tough. Breeding takes a lot of resources and a collaboration would require like minds working on similar things. Unlikely. My breeding space is my own and I’m unlikely to share. Seeds sure, space nope.
But, if you want a guava crossed with a carrot with high THC the building blocks are here if you look for them
Odd you choose Blueberry. I truly believe that’s the last great strain created. It had a stone similar to RKS but didn’t burn you out like 85 RKS,
We actually didn’t buy anymore 85 RKS after smoking a few ounces. It was fun a first, but nothing like Colombian Gold, Acapulco Gold was at having a zero burnout factor and a solid “Yeah I’m stoned man!” all the time lol
I smoked Colombian Gold for 10 years straight daily and loved every stone it gave me.
I think it’s a good idea if you can find the people dedicated to keeping it going. Maybe individual people can work towards making inbred lines and then the cooperative part can be F1,s?
It works but it doesn’t really require a specific group or voting/etc imo. If anyone wanted to do this, they’d simply need to give out their plan and seeds to anyone trustworthy who is willing to continue the project. The testers threads here basically, but with the stipulation that you actually want people to make seeds. And send a few back.
I think for making a sort of heirloom line it’d work well. Or at least something where you could embrace variety.
If I send you an apple can you make me a brick of hash please !!! Hahah
I like where your head’s at with this, but logistically everyone here is looking for something different, even people who share seeds among same packs.
I gotta say though, IMO if any forum could truly pull off a “community breeding project” it’d be this one
A great place to start with this might be a centrally visible listing of what projects those with specific goals are working on. Many of us share them in our journals, but it’s all widely dispersed information. I bet some of us are already working toward the same goals and don’t know it.
Imho a good start would be collaboratively defining the traits of interest in as granular detail as possible, then working out what plants you might use that have the specific traits and characteristics and then coming up with a division of labor as to who works on what plant component. In principle, many hands make light work.