Brick top.. okay , i follow what you are saying now tho I don't agree with it.
You are basically saying that autos or any strains using traits of a ruderallis will always be pants?
That breeders will never find new ways of crossing or taking the best elements of a plant and adding those strengths to another?
That new breeders using new techniques are just doing it all wrong and the old boys doing things the old way are correct?
That people who wish to grow plants in about two months flat cannot grow?
That all fem seeds are genetically fooked up and you will have all your plants hermie?
Napa, the new critical + auto that has recently come out is the best auto I have tried so far, nice taste, decent strength, nice looking. 60 days.
Some of what you said were things I never mentioned or even inferred so if I gave you a wrong impression I am sorry.
I made no comments about hermies but depending on what method was used to make feminized beans the odds of hermies are anything from slightly more than regular beans to much more than using regular beans. The history of feminized beans has proven that. It is not like I am saying it is a high percentage of beans but as we all know, it only takes one to foul a crop and since the odds are greater with feminized beans, if someone can avoid that by using regular beans it would not be an injudicious thing too do.
If someone wants to grow plants in a shorter period of time it doesn't take auto-flowering strains too do that. You just don't have to veg long or not veg at all. I may be wrong since I have never grown any auto-flowering strains but I do see them advertised when I look at other strains and many I see say medium or long for flowering time so I have to believe someone could finish regular beans in the same period of time, and in some cases even sooner. Length of flowering time is length of flowering time and if someone flips their time at the same time or sooner than an auto-flower would begin to flower the only difference after that should only be actual flowering time.
When it comes to new techniques I would really like to know which one or ones has made a real difference in potency. If anyone has paid attention to THC levels for many years now there has not been an appreciable across the board increase. If you go back to the mid 90's, if not a bit farther, there has not been a real increase in the highest THC levels. There are more strains that have a higher average level of THC, but it is not like each year's best strains keep getting more and more potent in THC. If it had been by now strains would average about 30% or higher in THC levels.
I used to have a neighbor that did DNA research. It was not on plants but it was his job so he knew a bit more about it than anyone here does and he grew herb too and he said until plant DNA can be totally figured out and spliced there would not be any appreciable increase in potency because no matter how many times you cross this with that, when making a cross you are not only crossing the good things but also the bad, the limiting factors, the things that put limits on what other things do. Until every bit can be isolated and understood and the bits that make 'more' can be spliced without adding the things that limit them there is only so much that can be done. Anyone that tells you that you can cross strains in a 'new way' to get a bunch more out of them is pulling your leg.
I am not sure what "pants" meant so I am not sure how to comment on that. Basically though what I was saying is when you cross something that is low potency with something that is high potency the very best you can hope for is an equally high potency plant but the odds of it being equally potent are not all that high. Plants pass on genetics and you just do not find plants that will only pass on what you want to be passed on. What was said above is basically that. You can throw dry dirt against the wall and hope something sticks, in other words made a zillion crosses and hope you hit a home run, but when you are crossing a weak strain with a potent strain most times you will be lucky if hit a triple.
Of course the breeders will tell you what you want to hear and sadly many growers are gullible and believe what they want to be told and then hear. Why else do you think that some people actually fall for BC Seeds supposed 50% THC strains now and then? If a breeder advertises that a strain will put you on the moon faster than the Apollo rocket shot Neil Armstrong and his crew to the moon a good number of people will purchase it as fast as they can. Always remember, there are no truth in advertising laws when it comes to cannabis strains and seeds. Something you can add to that is there is always a percentage of people on boards like this who have never had access to true high quality herb before and they can purchase a strain that to someone else is a mid-grade or even a low-grade strain by professional breeding standards, grow it, smoke it and then go on and on how it is the very best pot they ever smoked in their entire life! Add something like that to an exaggerated breeder claim and you have more and more people who will race to purchase the strain.
Another factor is what I call the flavor of the month syndrome. Many people totally believe that most, if not all, new strains are a step up, an advancement, that they are better than anything that is older. So they purchase them. Again, there has not been a truly appreciable increase in potency for a good number of years.
Why do you think it is that breeders have put so much effort into strains that have pretty colors and exotic aromas and yummy flavors and strains that flower on their own or made seeds that are supposedly all female? It is because for the most part they have hit a brick wall when it comes to making more potent strains. They have to offer the public something that they can call new and improved and since they cannot do it with THC they do it with gimmicks like pretty colors and exotic aromas and yummy flavors and strains that flower on their own and supposedly all female seeds.
Like it or not, agree or not, that is how things are. Once they could not come up with a better steak to sell they decided to sell people on the sizzle and say, doesn't that make it wonderfully yummy? I don't buy sizzle, I buy steak.
