Only some places are so luckily they didnt get to all the good places they certainly messed with malana valley and bits of south africa and also Jamaica to a certain extent now they in thailand too give it time there but there is still some pure smaller pockets even in India and the like but there few and far between and becoming rarer by the day India and nepal are especially getting hit bad with hybrids these days jamaica been so for years already as well and south africa is full of greenhouse cheese s1s i dont agree with there ethics at all personally not saying all there stuffs bad just there morals/business model there assholes who pollute countrys of source so others cant have it pure pretty much imo they deny it yet continue to do it so take what you want from that
I'll reserve how I feel about the Strain Hunter crew. I have my own gripes too.
Yes.
But...they're not Landrace, really, they're just groups of farmers, growing the same seed, year to year.
Obviously still lots of trade that happens and probably has for thousands of years.
I just mean, in that sense, nothing's really changed.
The Church project for instance helped the farmers improve their yield and disease resistance.
Benefited the farmers and the crops.
The local seed will eventually take over again, after a while.
Would take a lot more than that for Church to take over. It's hundreds, thousands of years, vs a very small fraction of time.
To me, it's the farming practices the locals are doing right for inbred seed, often without meaning to.
They're just sprouting seeds and growing a crop, year to year.
But, it's the large fields of plants in those local environments, seeding itself each year.
Whether or not intentional on the growers part, it's better breeding, if what you want is inbred seed.
Modern Cannabis, there's too much reliance on finding 1 nice female, 1 nice male, crossing them and calling it "F1 Bubble Pop" or whatever.
Or using 1 good male to hit a whole room of different female cultivars.
It's not good for the genetics and probably much of what you guys are on about? (I think)
But that's from a breeding stand-point, not necessarily a commercial one.
In many ways it's good those same breeders get to hold onto their favourite cuts and seeds, without having to share.
It's a relatively simple way of getting much the same resulting seed each time too.
Saves on money and time.
And, growers who enjoyed F1 Bubble Pop, will come back to grow some again, because the F2s won't be the same.
give us all your landrace, heirlooms and otherwise pure seeds, here's some cookies..
Yeah, but...you're asking for more of the same problem if everyone in the world starts getting all these rare seeds.
It's the commercial weed industry that's mostly the problem. Every consumer wants the new cookie flavour.
Blame the consumer.
It's availability not scarcity that's the problem.
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