Danishoes21
Well-Known Member
Lolz at the first bluter!
Totally at the second!
I think its important to note the difference in types of breeder.
1# YouTube Breeder
Likely a fraud reutilising stuff posted on message boards (like the guy passed off Shed’s work and tutorials as his own) these are easily spotted - did they ask you to follow them? Because successful breeders don't need YouTube revenue. Sometimes aspirational #2’s start here
#2 Weedz Breedz Bros - Pheno Hunters
“Limited” Releases. Big Events. Graffiti Logos. Hot new strain hyped up. “Secret Dropz” announced on Insta. Seeds can go $50 a pop. Take a popular stable strain breed it 2-3 Gens and get out next years hit release.
#3 Established Farms
Slower release schedule's. One a year but have large scale operations where they can afford a longer pipeline to stabilise the strain for mass market. This is where commercial growers get started. Although they may try out some popular/fashionable strains in a side grow to check stability etc. 50 plants ain’t no thing to commercial at that scale - they need to be sure the 5000 they plant are uniform and consistent.
#4 Pure Breeder
The science guys. University degrees in biology. 30 - 40 years of breeding down through generations. Having the skill when an entire strain is lost to the world how best to recreate it. Global personal contacts of breeders and strains and intercontinental strain swaps - like between Europe and the Americas. Typified by a very small 20 or less list of strains available. Often trade marked brands. The “Go To” type of large scale farmer that doesn’t breed themselves.
Its often where #2 type will start out.
That’s my take on breeders. Some Seed banks grow their own of the #3 and relabel.
Anyways - my take on it. I got time for all but the #1 group and only buy #4 or #3 in that order.
Nick
You forgot one type;
The mischief low key individual that travels around hooks up with local growers and brings seeds back to their homeland. Propagates the seed and makes seeds that will never see the public market. Private seed reserves are a thing, there are a bunch of private seed collectives in Cali. There are seed collectives in France and Barcelona (I have personally been to cannabis clubs in Barcelona where they smoke and sell only in house genetics) stuff that will never see day light because it’s not meant for commercial purposes, it’s private and out of hands of monetizing goons you described in your #1 #2 #3.
#4 are not breeding your next weeding cake or grape ape, they are isolating chemotypes by cannabinoid content and derivatives, one by one and making corporate money selling patents to big pharma.
Maybe internal support between us the “community” of growers may be the incentive for a real effort and movement to create sustainable breeding.
Bashing peoples efforts or categorizing people isn’t gonna help solve the genetics problems we see today. Is helping other growers level up and start rethinking growing as a whole that’s going to start giving us options to create a more traceable and organized seed bank.
Fekking millennials. ...............Har!
Glory days. 
CL
