No problem bud i wish it was so easy to tell who has got what and is it the correct line/right parents luckily theres many good threads on here and alot of people with great knowledge and experience on here as well to help sift through to the truth and what is just marketing or worse lies also strain history is something i care about myself also in the strains section on here there is a big skunk thread well worth a read sometime im sure it will interest you
The best way to find the real deal in my opinion is to research and find out who originally bread that particular strain. Many (old school strains are already extinct and around in name only) but many are still available. Finding the original breeder is by far your best bet. And yes genetics is paramount. Thats not to say you cant find fire weed with a stolen name, but if your looking for the original find the original breeder as a rule of thumb.
I agree unless the breeder looses the line in which case chase the original where u can theres so many older ones that it pays to do this with and yes u need to do your research for sure bud
I know I could have been more clear in my phrasing, but you're the only one who didn't understand what I meant. Do you think I don't believe in genetics? Give me a LITTLE credit
So he's overreacting a bit in that video I guess? If seeds are never true to the original, then any time you sell a seed, you're not selling the original. To what degree is genetics watered down through seeds? It just makes me confused about all the hyped up strains, you know? Skittles, cookie dough, OG, etc. How much of their original heritage is even left?
So the genetics are the genetics no matter what. What the seeds will do is give you different genetic expressions from the same gene pool (same parents). Just like kids born to the same parents one might look just like the mother with brown hair and brown eyes and another child might be blonde and blue eyed. Both offspring from the same parents and the same gene pool. The only way to get the exact duplicate expression would be to grow clones. But by pheno hunting seeds you might have to go through several plants to find exactly what your looking for and its possible you might not. You might actually find something better. haha
Thanks for elaborating! Do you know how much variance there is?
F1 is first generation, F2 second generation F3 and so on. In general the further down the F(Finial) line the more stable the genetic outcome. Its a little more complicated than that but thats the gist of it.
That's true even giving someone a cut if the genetics have high pheno plasticity the way and where it is kept can definitely change it a bit over time
The more inbred the more stable it should be but the trade off is loss in vigour and yield assuming the works been done right of course i think we get this less so with landrace as less genes get lost along the way because of the numbers of plants involved each season
If that's the case and you like alot try some of mr kc brains stuff at some point if you ain't already bud cos you get alot of variation and vigour with his stuff and you can find some pretty nice plants in his gear bonus points is his regs gotta be the most reasonably priced beans around
I dont think he uses random males he been doing it a while mate its just he grows with much larger numbers than most hence why his stuff tends to be vigorous and more varied as for the clone only thing its luck you could pop 2 seeds find a killer pheno then pop 200 more and still find nothing on the same level cos as much as the eye for selection is important so is luck imo this is why i love seeds it is like a lottery
