Grow for dough? Any big $ in pheno hunting?

bigunyun

bigunyun

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Hot Diggity Sog said:
Looks pretty good. But don't you have to dry it, cure it, and then review it objectively before you have any idea if it's special or not?
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yeah of course... just musing about the steps... I found a lab here in MA that will test potency and terpenes, so might do that... but... then what? What if it IS really special?
 
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ComfortCreator

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Only to a cultivator in a pro setup can u really get the financial benefits.

These days nobody seems to know what they are growing to begin with...hybrids of hybrids of hybrids where a snazzy name and picture seem to stimulate purchases more than a history of proven genetics.

It is great for you and your friends though!
 
Hot Diggity Sog

Hot Diggity Sog

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ComfortCreator said:
Only to a cultivator in a pro setup can u really get the financial benefits.

These days nobody seems to know what they are growing to begin with...hybrids of hybrids of hybrids where a snazzy name and picture seem to stimulate purchases more than a history of proven genetics.

It is great for you and your friends though!
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Those days are numbered as the dumb consumer begins to become more knowledgeable. And the breeders that got us to this point will realize they fucked up.
 
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ComfortCreator

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Hot Diggity Sog said:
Those days are numbered as the dumb consumer begins to become more knowledgeable. And the breeders that got us to this point will realize they fucked up.
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I hope this is true. even my old veteran partier friends have succumbed to the pink panties space queen mango chocolate platinum and it says 33%! They really are dumb enough to believe the marketing
 
Gentlemencorpse

Gentlemencorpse

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So first off, I hate to be Debbie downer here, but odds are you do not have something incredibly special here. It's just statistically unlikely. Most of the so called "elite" strains came from professional growers hunting through hundreds of plants for the one that stood out most. And even then, there's a certain amount of hype that carries a lot of these cuts above and beyond what they really are...

To answer your question though, on the off chance your cut is truly special, and you have clones or are able to successfully reveg it, you'd want to submit samples to cannabis cups and try to win one, cause these days that's what growers look for... awards.

Also fire up the hype machine. Get on the gram, hire a professional photographer, stage some photos, give it a stupid catchy name and spam the crap out of it. Naming it after a dessert seems to be effective. Helps if you have a cool logo too.

Sorry, I'm very cynical.

Hot Diggity Sog said:
Those days are numbered as the dumb consumer begins to become more knowledgeable. And the breeders that got us to this point will realize they fucked up.
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Speaking of cynical... this 100%. When cannabis becomes federally legal I definitely expect big breeders to start trade marking genetics. I already know a guy trying to set up a business solely to do this, take genetic samples and document them as belonging to the breeder so they can get that TM and litigate if someone else uses their gear (he's an ass by the way, and I think he's underestimating how much common heritage there is throughout popular cannabis strains and how hard it will be to prove that a strain is truly unique, but whatever).
 
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ComfortCreator

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Gentlemencorpse said:
So first off, I hate to be Debbie downer here, but odds are you do not have something incredibly special here. It's just statistically unlikely. Most of the so called "elite" strains came from professional growers hunting through hundreds of plants for the one that stood out most. And even then, there's a certain amount of hype that carries a lot of these cuts above and beyond what they really are...

To answer your question though, on the off chance your cut is truly special, and you have clones or are able to successfully reveg it, you'd want to submit samples to cannabis cups and try to win one, cause these days that's what growers look for... awards.

Also fire up the hype machine. Get on the gram, hire a professional photographer, stage some photos, give it a stupid catchy name and spam the crap out of it. Naming it after a dessert seems to be effective. Helps if you have a cool logo too.

Sorry, I'm very cynical.



Speaking of cynical... this 100%. When cannabis becomes federally legal I definitely expect big breeders to start trade marking genetics. I already know a guy trying to set up a business solely to do this, take genetic samples and document them as belonging to the breeder so they can get that TM and litigate if someone else uses their gear (he's an ass by the way, and I think he's underestimating how much common heritage there is throughout popular cannabis strains and how hard it will be to prove that a strain is truly unique, but whatever).
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Monsanto will destroy all seedbanks eventually. Nobody has their cash backing to fight it out. Just ask farmers of....every seed crop grown today.
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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Gentlemencorpse said:
So first off, I hate to be Debbie downer here, but odds are you do not have something incredibly special here. It's just statistically unlikely. Most of the so called "elite" strains came from professional growers hunting through hundreds of plants for the one that stood out most. And even then, there's a certain amount of hype that carries a lot of these cuts above and beyond what they really are...

To answer your question though, on the off chance your cut is truly special, and you have clones or are able to successfully reveg it, you'd want to submit samples to cannabis cups and try to win one, cause these days that's what growers look for... awards.

Also fire up the hype machine. Get on the gram, hire a professional photographer, stage some photos, give it a stupid catchy name and spam the crap out of it. Naming it after a dessert seems to be effective. Helps if you have a cool logo too.

Sorry, I'm very cynical.



Speaking of cynical... this 100%. When cannabis becomes federally legal I definitely expect big breeders to start trade marking genetics. I already know a guy trying to set up a business solely to do this, take genetic samples and document them as belonging to the breeder so they can get that TM and litigate if someone else uses their gear (he's an ass by the way, and I think he's underestimating how much common heritage there is throughout popular cannabis strains and how hard it will be to prove that a strain is truly unique, but whatever).
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I think your cynicism here is well placed. I was about to post the same thing, nearly verbatim, when I saw your post.
 
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sf_frankie

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ComfortCreator said:
Only to a cultivator in a pro setup can u really get the financial benefits.

These days nobody seems to know what they are growing to begin with...hybrids of hybrids of hybrids where a snazzy name and picture seem to stimulate purchases more than a history of proven genetics.

It is great for you and your friends though!
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I'm finding that a lot of the original strains are making a big comeback. OG, GDP, WW, bubba are just some that have come up in the last week.
 
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