I dont. I think Sun Rae farms is giving one and I am. I have a feeling they haven’t updated that section for a bit. I would think a schedule would be handed out at the front though. I do know that I am 3pm in the Horseshoe Bend seminar room!
Also kind of disappointed i threw my old rooting hormone out when we moved. Just got some new yesterday and took some clones, but I was hoping I’d have some rooted to bring and give away.
I am going to try and have some seeds with me to give away, so maybe another good reason to find me!
The last event I went to down at the lake was to meet the head of Kindway farms, attend her intro to growing class and grab some seeds. I always love the relaxing scenic drive down there.
Kindway is dope!! I love them! They were generous enough to give me some of their Love Whip seeds. Just popped above the soil this morning!
They do a lot of cool seminars and meets it sounds like. Im hoping I can sit on a panel with them someday! The craft canna swap meets/flea markets from the homegrowers “association” (i think its more of a loose affiliation so I put it in quotes) are awesome. Got some black cuban haze x Panama red last weekend that has keep me floating!
Also, met a super nice guy who is a med grower and swapped some seeds! Got some Snow high Colombia Gold preservation that are germinating that I am absolutely thrilled for.
I can’t believe I forgot to mention this. It is probably one of the most important aspects of cannabis and quant gen. Quant gen is there to separate genetic effects from environmental effects and cannabis loves itself some environmental effects.
If you go down a rabbit hole and get stuck or have questions, let a brother know!
I picked up the lovedog g(love whip x chemdog d) and she was giving away Antoinette(grumpz x runtz muffin x zkittlez) for attending her lecture. Looking forward to growing both of them out.
Nope. The concepts in the text are mostly really solid. Some of the analytical techniques they discuss will have been replaced with next gen sequencing, but for a book designed to help you think like a quant geneticist it is a standard bearer. It also means you can probably find it used for pretty cheap!
Even the updated books cite Falconer and Mackay. We just now have access to hundreds of thousands of genetic data points where before it was 10’s to 100’s of data points. Maybe a 1000 if it were a study with lots of funding. Next Gen Sequencing is so much cheaper than the older ways of sequencing that it forced new analysis methods.
Wild how these ideas aren’t new but everyone swears they won’t work. Farmers have lost the plot a bit, where it used to be community first it is now profit first. Selective chemistry and the USDA have killed farming in this country. So does the yield focused Big Ag mentality. A whole generation of farmers who never learned the value of their greatest resource, soil.
@AppalachianBiscuits There’s pdf versions up for free too, if you’re willing to suffer the extra screen time. I did look at some more recent books, and indeed they all seem to assume I’ve read this one and learned what’s in it so yeah, I’m starting here.
My favorite part of not being in a class so far is that I don’t have to do the end-of-chapter activities, nor try to absorb in depth parts that won’t apply to my plants. Kind of sad not to get to chat about it with folks though. Maybe we should have some Zoom book club meetings @AppalachianBiscuits
I picked up some from Todd Mccormick and have gotten some generous offers from some on here. Ive gotten my hands on some through some friends in the midwest, but its going to be a long process, but thats what I’m here for! With schedule 3 coming up, that project may be real feasible. It would open up research grants which could pay for sequencing. Since it’s a public university, that sequencing data becomes public as well!
I did look at some more recent books, and indeed they all seem to assume I’ve read this one and learned what’s in it 
so yeah, I’m starting here.