This is it right here . It’s like saying strain instead of cultivar it varietal, or pistils and calyxs instead of stigmas and bracts. There is often terms that don’t get fully used correctly but aren’t incorrect in such a way it really matters in the big picture.They use the old Sativa/Indica nomenclature, which we have used for almost a hundred years. It may not be scientifically accurate, however, it does give us a common language for communicating traits.
The interesting thing about intraspecific hybrids to me is the amount of DNA variance between subspecies.It's the same with most plants including corn.
There was wild corn and through intraspecific hybridization we've ended up with the varieties we have today.
Hybrids between 2 species within the same genus, Interspecific hybridization, are very often sterile, like the mule, a horse and donkey combo.
Fight me about pistils and stigma any day, lol, I think it matters more than indica vs sativa, lolThis is it right here . It’s like saying strain instead of cultivar it varietal, or pistils and calyxs instead of stigmas and bracts. There is often terms that don’t get fully used correctly but aren’t incorrect in such a way it really matters in the big picture.
And that seedfinder site is probably the best provenance data we have in the game today, I agree. Hard to use, not hard science, but it is something! You grow pot with the seed data you have, not the seed data you want.They use the old Sativa/Indica nomenclature, which we have used for almost a hundred years. It may not be scientifically accurate, however, it does give us a common language for communicating traits.
I enjoy talking about anything to do with growing and I'm not afraid to learn anything from anyone, knowledge is power. What I know is a lot from experience but so is a lot of the bro lore out there. A lot of guys like me grew in a vacuum for years and that's not a great way to learn anything. And although the better breeders that I've been around are as meticulous as they can be, it's still very limiting. And when I push back at anything anyone says just take it as a challenge to prove me wrong and as a challenge to dig deeper and learn more too.The interesting thing about intraspecific hybrids to me is the amount of DNA variance between subspecies.
Some of what are currently defined as subspecies’ have large differences in DNA, closer to species level standards. Other subspecies are almost indistinguishable from each other in DNA barcode analyses. The Cannabis subsp. delta is on the small side, for what it is worth.
The other problem is that nobody can reliably point to a plant that looks for all the world to be indica and say that the genotype will agree. We are line breeding mostly for, and using, chemotype and morphology.
I feel like the word “hybrid” is often meant, and/or understood, as a pejorative in our hobby and it bugs me.
I fucking love you nerds. What @Mohican said about a common language is true, and day to day I don’t bring this shit up, but y’all are a good crowd.
Actually I try my best to always say stigma and bracts. However it doesn’t matter when speaking to other weed growers because the proper biological terms rarely get used by the masses. Just like indica and sativa.Fight me about pistils and stigma any day, lol, I think it matters more than indica vs sativa, lol
Well I was going to sex these double taps but they look like they are telling me to fuck my self and letting their nuts hang.
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Looks great! What kind of smells are you getting?I wanna thank everyone involved in this thread for doing what ya'll do, and the putting the work/time in to share your info with all us LURKERS. Every time I feel like I'm really "doing something" in my garden, I can take a quick stroll through here and realize ya'll BEEN doing it for a loooong time. Here's my first ever chuck of AK47 x Vanilla Gorilla at 7 weeks.
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It went from Black Licorice into berries and rotten teeth. Momma brought the berries but idk where the hell the dead tooth terps came from. It's kinda gross and I hope it is fun to smoke... lol.Looks great! What kind of smells are you getting?
This was very interesting in the beginning.I had a Mulanje x Mozambique that smelled like Bubblicious bubblegum on the plant and smelled like cat piss in the drying rack. Later, cured in the jar, it smelled like pineapple and black pepper.
@Michael Huntherz - have you seen this:
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