Firstly, not trying to pick a fight but your whole rant sounds like your beans are better than our beans?
Where are you buying your $3,500 unicorn beans from? In a 10 pack bro?
Got any for sale?
Secondly, true breeding dogs have problems inherent from their breeding. I.e short noses or long bad backs or hip issues.
Mutts look like mutts butt they have genetic diversity that sometimes fixes inbred bad traits.
I have run landrace that has also has broad phenos and the ‘unicorn’ in those would be the mythical representation of the strain you ‘hope’ to find. Take Durban for example. The ‘unicorn’ in that line would be a purple pheno that smells like anise and is potent-af.
I totally hear you that most poly hybrids give that mixed type of 2 hr high that is ‘all the same’. Especially if all you buy is ‘breath’ this or ‘cookie’ that or TGA when it’s all the ‘dude’ male on everything.
And despite you pointing out that poly pheno hunts or whatever seem pointless, I still think even in these circumstances that the practice of looking for the best plants in the 10% is the best practice that everyday Joe’s should get into and feel good about!
Unicorns are in the land of the 10%. They hide in the land of the 100%. They eat the same thing the other plants do and they show themselves to those that are able to see them.
Unicorns can only be found if peeps are keeping seed lines alive as well. So if I’m looking for gold I’m gunna go panning down by the river.
You can keep singing the song of $3,500 unicorn packs that no one is buying??
You’re good bro. As am I, not here to argue.
The 3500 is hypothetical number brother. Only meant to represent 100x 35 because… I like to keep it 100.
Your points are legitimate bro. Therefore I don’t seed the need to go back and forth about moot points that’s been hashed out on every forum countless times.
If I may, why do you grow brother? For monetary or medical reasons? Or is it simply that you enjoy the act of caring for a living entity?
Durban… purple, anise smelling, potent Af. Sounds like a lot of strains that I have had. And maybe so due to the popularity of the Durban strain. Can I call it that, or is it just some randomly producing cross with a 10% chance of producing your describe unicorn.
Let’s see, there are 1,000’s of Durban seeds being produced in any given grow season.
Let’s do the math. And try to keep it simple.
By your count, if I planted 1,000 Durban seeds, I should produce no less than 100 unicorn pheno plants. Sounds doable. Either I can give 10 friend 100 Durban seeds, or 100 friends 10 Durban seed, together we should be able to produce 100 unicorn pheno Durban plants. Depending on the friend count, each of us will end up with at least 1 unicorn pheno. With numbers like those, that unicorn cut of Durban should be all over the globe by now.
Care to explain why it isn’t. I mean, your math can’t be correct, or else there would be unicorn Durban held by every one by now.
The same principle applies to all the other unicorns cuts and crosses that people are doing large pheno hunting for. However we all know that isn’t the case
The fact is, if the strain was properly produced, anise smelling, purple potent Af Durban would be all over the globe. Something is very wrong with you calculation. Or am I missing some viable input.
Sounds like someone is selling a dream that keep you and countless others searching strains that aren’t producing that which you seek.
You mention cookies…. Aka cannabis’s alter ego. Bred to produce and reproduce its signature unicorns. One in particular is the fabulous ice cream cake. I found a pheno that would give off this marvelous vanilla soft serve Ice cream aroma when smoked. Big, vigorous plant that produced heavy leaf free buds. It was Skunky, Afghan tasting, and loud Af. For a little while at least. Unfortunately, like most cookies strains, the smell dissipated during the cure. Unicorn? I think not. That’s crap is everywhere and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. You would think that it would be awesome by now since so many people work with it. But we all know it isn’t. Once again, the same principle also applies to durban.
I thought to myself this plant wouldn’t need much work to turn it into something legendary. The only category that it failed in was the hideous 1 dimensional, boring typical, cookie type high that it produced. And that dissipating smell. I know people who would have jumped at the chance to have this this thing. However, this was no unicorn by any of my standards. Tossed in the trash.
But not before breeding to it a cross that I call pine apple dripz. None zittles related. Pineapple dripzs terps are a combination of pine, apples, cherry, tropical punch. With the matching smell. And a high equivalent to being lost in the Amazon rainforest for a couple of weeks. The cross produced plants that smell of vanilla ice cream from 3 feet away without having to touch it. I let you know later on what it taste like and smoke like.
You see brother, why you are searching for unicorns, I’m creating them.
I usually don’t waste time with plants that don’t produce the type of high that I like. As I said before, this plant shows so much promise because it only needs help in the high and smell department. If find that easy enough to fix. Since I’m breeding, I may as well enhance other departments as well.
Better tasting, louder smell, increased potency, and of course, a longer lasting high. And let’s not forget the trip.. remember that lost in the rainforest effects. I mean, why breed, if you aren’t going to do it right.
In my opinion, this is what breeding is all about. For real, purple anise smelling potent Af durban that has been done to death, so why keep producing it.
I do it this way because it gives me that “panning them gold filled streams feeling.”
Any way brother, good luck on your hunt. Peace.
that is a stoner thing to do.
