Originally Posted by
Guile
Isn't that really the thing that brings us here (the majority of us anyway)
the pursuit of truth rather than propaganda?
Sadly even these venues are often dominated by relatively few prolifically opinionated individuals that find it necessary to condescend in order to feed their narcissistic egos.
Its a little disappointing that someone can pose a question or speculation (in an advanced cultivation forum none the less) and be harshly met with the same tired "conventional wisdom" that has been blindly regurgitated (and asserted as fact, likely by people that have never challenged it themselves) so many times that barely deserves mentioning anyway..
Anyone notice that we are often at a conspicuous lack of statements like "In my personal experience" "from my research" "I'd speculate based on" or anything else that would indicate either intelligence or first hand understandings...
Why don't we productively work together to advance current understandings, both on the individual level and as a community on the whole? (rather than being unproductively critical).
Thanks for making my case, but.....
You're speaking out of turn. BT and I go wayyyy back which not only includes posting at the first large cannabis forums like OG and CW, now defunct, but in emails. BT knows me as a pursuer of truth, and he knows that I always take the position that if a vendor stands to make money from a sale, that I give no credibility to what they have to say as it often is nothing more than propaganda. They have an agenda. I only listen to non-partisan verse such as Mel Frank.
I asked a simple question, what is the source for that strain description? If I had to guess, it's just another seedbank info-commercial. EDIT - Never mind, if it was a snake it would have bit me. BT posted the source and I glossed over it. Having no first hand experience, BT also posted a disclaimer. Tiki Seedbank.
http://www.dope-seeds.com/tiki_seeds.htm
It'll be a cold day in hell when a "100% sativa" finishes in 55 days at a height of only 39"! Hah! And of course it does well outdoors "under our northern European latitudes".
Also, this isn't "Advanced". If you look at the subject headers of the never ending redundant discussions, it more like a baby sitting class.
UB
What Uncle Ben said was 100% accurate, he is no bullshitter, he has an amount of experience that few growers in the world can match, let along top, he has more factual plant knowledge than anyone I have ever run across on any grow site.
He, like anyone, can unintentionally be wrong if there is something he never had experience with that turns out different than something he said and was fully confident he was accurate about, but that is a highly uncommon occurrence with Uncle Ben. All that he doesn't know could rest on the tip of a pin and have room left over.
And like anyone who reads, at times a word or line just won't sink in. But if Uncle Ben says something, almost 100% of the time you can take it to the bank. Of the very few extremely rare times he is not correct, it is always a case of a simple error and not a lack of knowledge. Thinking one thing but unintentionally typing something else. Like how in a message in this thread he accidentally wrote something along the lines of how real sativas take more like 14 months to flower when in his head he was thinking more like 14 weeks ... and then when he realized his honest error, he edited it out.
The guy is honest, flat out honest, and when it comes to growing knowledge/information he's damn near flawless. If something stumped me and all my normal ways of researching failed me, Uncle Ben is only person I would ask advice from. The only one.
People should be more grateful for and open to his knowledge and honestly rather than doubt and question him.
I am sure that George Van Patten (AKA Jorge Cervantes) was grateful to Uncle Ben when Uncle Ben spotted an error in one of George's books so it could be corrected.
While Greenman might not remember Uncle Ben's username I am sure that he remembers 'the guy' that taught him so much before he became the famous Greenman and is grateful to 'the guy' who took the time to tell him the way things really are rather than feeding him all the myths and urban legends and misconceptions and personal opinions and old hippie folklore that sadly so many pass on to others on sites like this under the guise of being facts.
And his pointing out my disclaimer about the strain I posted info on was the right thing to do. I never grew the strain, nor any of the other maybe 5 or 6 claimed to be 100% sativa strains that I have read about having short flowering times so I am unable to swear to the accuracy of the breeder claims.
There are fewer honest breeders than there are dishonest breeders, and the dishonest ones will tell you what you want to hear rather than telling you the truth because telling the truth would mean their income would drop.
It is just like all the snake oil additives/nutrients/boosters and multi-formula 'you need them all' liquid fertilizer manufacturers. They tell you what you want to hear, and do it in a way that gets you to believe you need more and more of their various products, so you will give them more and more of your money.
To many people here doubt and question the wrong people. They fall for every snake oil salesman's pitch and every outlandish miracle product claim and every laughable piece of myth, urban legend, misconception, personal opinion and old hippie folklore that is regurgitated virtually daily here, but when someone accurately says that's baloney or that snake oil stuff is crap and isn't worth the price of what they charge you for shipping, well, they're always doubted and questioned and seen as being wrong.
Maybe what Uncle Ben needs so some of you will just simply believe him and accept what he says as being factual is to do like the snake oil salesmen do, pay some high dollar marketing agency to come up with a marketing plan to build and strengthen his image. Maybe then the Beavis and Buttheads here in Romper Room would believe him.