So when you move the plant the genetics change?
Yes land races genetics will change when removed from natural growing environment. There are many many articles on this subject. Go do some due diligence and look it up for yourself.
Yes the properties of the plant change. Because u r changing environment and medium. You can never duplicate the same environment or medium these plants are accustomed to be grown in, therefore many of the characteristics that make them true land race strains are altered.
Do the research I can post a few hundred links regarding land race strains and what happens when you move them, u can google it for yourself since u think im this big liar. Like wtf u think I just make this shit up? Lol i obviously made a post about it for a reason. Im not gonna post bad information bcuz w internet u can find an answer in less than 10 seconds to anything.
Like i told the other dude if you think im full of shit go research the topic and prove me wrong, ill be waiting because I know i, right, period. Once a land race strain is taken from its natural environment its loses some of its original attributes. Land races are very distinct and recognizeable when they are grown in their natural origins. When and if You take that plant and move it elsewhere the only thing ur gonna probably keep is the smell and flavor.
Also remember that land race strains are the backbone for most all cannabis varieties we have today. Because cannabis is a wild indigenous plant thats been around for thousands of years, modern cultivation has taken these strains to create better strains for purposes such as quality, yield, mold and disease resistance and other important genetics we want in our cannabis plants. Therefore, land races are for the most part been bred out of extinction in the growing community unless ur living somewhere in mountain regions or tropical areas where strains have been growing wild for centuries and tou harvest th seeds and continue to grow them their.
*** hybridization has forced many if not ALL true land races to become extinct. Saving some of the original characteristics of these plants remain but its no where near what its original pheno came from. Land races are mild in potency compared to today because we breed for potency, yields, aroma and flavor etc.. Its not hard concept to understand at all.
Ex. Taking people from their place of birth and moving them to a different region, over time they will evolve and change. Africans who were captured and taken as slaves eventually will change from their original genetics including skin pigment, size of noses, amount of hair they have to adapt to their new enviroment. So although they are the same descent and genetics removing them from their natural environment leads to subtle changes over a short period, AND dramatic changes over a long period of time all things being constant.
More importantly when you take a land race strain and breed it through selective breeding ie. Focusing on disease resistance, yield, growth and other commercial growing tehcniques the genetics are altered which is why true land race strainsare almost impossible to get your hands on and many are completely extinct. Seed companies that "produce" land race strains are NOT true land races, because a land race by definition is a plant that has NOT been bred. So unless u went and got that fuckin plant from wherever it came from and used it to get cuts etc than its not a TRUE land race and is most likely 90% a cross of a true land race strain. Including the AK or Afghan Kush (land race name).
Furthermore, and MOST importantly growers and breeders such as Arjan and his partner Franco have many articles and information regarding land races strains including origins and genetics and the impact on changing their environment. They also created a series you can find on youtube called strains hunters which is all about land race strains across the world.
** QUOTE from Franco and Arjan on Land Race Strains.
"Land race strains are important because they are the bases that have been selected by nature, for such purposes" AND "the span of time over which nature does this is so huge that they are not replicable by man under ANY circumstances - NOT indoor, NOT outdoor, NOT anywhere!"
Removing a land race from its natural origins loses many of the characteristics in which nature selectively designed it to grow and be cultivated. Changing even a small factor such as a medium can drastically change a land race strain and for sucn purpose, is no longer considered to be a land race strain even if the seeds are harvested directly from that plant and grown outside its natural habitat.
Another Quote regarding Land Race strains from master breeder and cultivator, Big Wes. "Land race strains refer to a cannabis variety that HAS NOT been bred systematically, instead after many centuries and decades of growing in isolation these plant will eventually begin to exhibit some of their original characteristics. However, for example when you take Thai Sativa from Thailand and try to breed this strain and cultivate it in Northen California or Oregon, this strain will lose many of its original characteristics and will NOT even resemble its original genetics. When these land race strains are forced to live in environment which they are not accustomed to be grown in than many of their original characteristics and genetic properties are LOST, and you are left with merely a phenotype of the original strain."
Also, continuing with his statements " many land races trains including thai, panama, and afghan strains are predisposed to being hermaphrodites and obtaining a true female seed is almost impossible to obtain. For these reason many of these strains were hybrodized to remove that genetic composition and focus on developing true female seeds with better properties for modern growing. This produces what we have today in varieties such as AK-47 or Thai Stick strains which are merely a phenotype of the true land race strains because they share a common flavor and smell from the original land race strain in which it was bred from. Often times these strains are bred to shorten the growth period and to increase yield and potency based on market demands for commercial growers.
Ponto Red or Columbian Gold strains distinctively grown in regions of Columbia have been found impossible to grow when removed from their original environment. During the 70s-80s many of the hippies who search the world for these truly unique indigenous strains to bring back to the Americas where left with huge challenges and found that many of these land race strains were impossible and extremely difficult to grow in their new environment causing many to hybridize and cross them with other strains in an attempt to get a phenotype suitable to grow and produce high quality flowers with the terpenes and oils they wished to obtain.
So bottom line is these land race strains we get from seed breeders ARE NOT true land races at all and a merelt phenos of the original breeds, you can NOT remove any land race and maintain its origina genetics but merely obtain a pheotype of these strains, do the hw and u will find this information to be 100% accurate. I dont post anything that isnt based off yesrs of fact and personal experience and would like anyone to prove me wrong ill be waiting.