Interesting, the article seems to suggest using known strains to gain a predictable product, but I have heard others complain Girl Scout Cookies is in everything these days. Not sure what to think.
Personally, I am swimming in good weed and have no complaints.
The point is that even if a lot of strains still have the same building blocks (GSC, Gelato, whatever), the new cultivars they're making with it aren't being stabilized long enough before they hit the market so people are getting inconsistent genetics out of it. Think buying a 10 pack of seeds and 4 of them only grow to two and a half feet and 6 of them grow to seven feet because they're expressing wildly different traits from two different parent strains. By predictable product they mean they want you getting either 10 two and a half foot or 10 seven foot plants every time, regardless of how different the parents were. You can apply the same rationale to every other aspect of the plant that makes it distinct like the smell, yield, cannabinoid content, etc.
90% or more of strains today are downstream from a GSC cross (this includes all the Runtz and Gelato that people complain about)
I just want to see people keeping landrace strains (Durban, Thai, Colombian) and classic 90s strains alive (DJ's blueberry, headband, chemdawg, things like that), along with Kush cuts.
GSC caused a lot of the strains we have today just because it was crossed with literally anything. When your parents are OG kush and Durban Poison and one of your descendants is gelato, your lineage is probably somewhere in most strains. At least that's what I see when buying new seeds and looking at lineage.
Also, we still have heirloom strains available for purchase as I have a lot of them. I even grow landraces to start from the beginning and breed that route now
Two things.
We do have heirloom genetics available through breeders like Humboldt CSI, Bodhi and many others.
The definition of what's an heirloom strain changes generation to generation.
IMHO what we really need to do is encourage more diversity and less self pollination across the board.
Interesting, the article seems to suggest using known strains to gain a predictable product, but I have heard others complain Girl Scout Cookies is in everything these days. Not sure what to think.
Personally, I am swimming in good weed and have no complaints.
Another one I’ve heard and seen is runtz is mixed into everything and for it’s been hit or miss in that front
Cookies and Runtz I'm just out here looking for some OG Cat Piss.
I hate all the piss strains. Taste so bad and the high has never been good for me.
The point is that even if a lot of strains still have the same building blocks (GSC, Gelato, whatever), the new cultivars they're making with it aren't being stabilized long enough before they hit the market so people are getting inconsistent genetics out of it. Think buying a 10 pack of seeds and 4 of them only grow to two and a half feet and 6 of them grow to seven feet because they're expressing wildly different traits from two different parent strains. By predictable product they mean they want you getting either 10 two and a half foot or 10 seven foot plants every time, regardless of how different the parents were. You can apply the same rationale to every other aspect of the plant that makes it distinct like the smell, yield, cannabinoid content, etc.
And if always the same strains are used it will result in a bottleneck of genetics.
Well that explains why almost everything felt like GSC to me before I stopped smoking regularly. I miss the actually relaxing indicas.
90% or more of strains today are downstream from a GSC cross (this includes all the Runtz and Gelato that people complain about)
I just want to see people keeping landrace strains (Durban, Thai, Colombian) and classic 90s strains alive (DJ's blueberry, headband, chemdawg, things like that), along with Kush cuts.
GSC caused a lot of the strains we have today just because it was crossed with literally anything. When your parents are OG kush and Durban Poison and one of your descendants is gelato, your lineage is probably somewhere in most strains. At least that's what I see when buying new seeds and looking at lineage.
Also, we still have heirloom strains available for purchase as I have a lot of them. I even grow landraces to start from the beginning and breed that route now