I posted this in someones thread when they asked for a strain recomendation.
Ill explain. Auto strains are Ruderalis..crossed with something that actually has THC in it. Its Russian ditch weed..Im not joking.
that is not my beef..I think they are cool and they have their place in growing..for the sake of growing.
my beef is this..Breeders are business men...they will sell what the market will buy. when the breeders spend their resources on that type of seed they dont have a financial reason to keep the landraces around. ALL the original landrace Sativas are pretty much gone. they crossed them with Indica landraces make a more marketable shorter flowering strain.
We all know that a real sativa will flower 14-16 weeks...or more.
Its the same with Indicas but not quite as bad.
its not finacialy viable for indoor growers to grow a landrace sativa because it takes too long...cant really grow to height because its indoors. and the yield will be terrible....BUT....the high is preferable for alot of people.
again the breeders try to take the best traits and come up with a short strain.
We have almost lost all the pure Sativas and Indicas...EVERYTHING you buy today is mixed....but when we continue on this path it gets worse.
Jeez even Greenhouse has an autoflower now...and they are the ones that are always proclaiming being a strain hunter. Hopefully they have the resources to continue that.
Im part of the problem, I dont grow landraces...I grow the mixed strains but I draw the line there and wont spend my money supporting ruderalis crosses.
If you gotta grow something and thats all you can do than do it..I dont blame you. Ill smash my
soapbox now
Ill explain. Auto strains are Ruderalis..crossed with something that actually has THC in it. Its Russian ditch weed..Im not joking.
that is not my beef..I think they are cool and they have their place in growing..for the sake of growing.
my beef is this..Breeders are business men...they will sell what the market will buy. when the breeders spend their resources on that type of seed they dont have a financial reason to keep the landraces around. ALL the original landrace Sativas are pretty much gone. they crossed them with Indica landraces make a more marketable shorter flowering strain.
We all know that a real sativa will flower 14-16 weeks...or more.
Its the same with Indicas but not quite as bad.
its not finacialy viable for indoor growers to grow a landrace sativa because it takes too long...cant really grow to height because its indoors. and the yield will be terrible....BUT....the high is preferable for alot of people.
again the breeders try to take the best traits and come up with a short strain.
We have almost lost all the pure Sativas and Indicas...EVERYTHING you buy today is mixed....but when we continue on this path it gets worse.
Jeez even Greenhouse has an autoflower now...and they are the ones that are always proclaiming being a strain hunter. Hopefully they have the resources to continue that.
Im part of the problem, I dont grow landraces...I grow the mixed strains but I draw the line there and wont spend my money supporting ruderalis crosses.
If you gotta grow something and thats all you can do than do it..I dont blame you. Ill smash my
soapbox now
