so not only is the article a lie but the seed company is lieing too. is it a conspiracy? are the people who have grown this strain and posted about it in various fourms and websites all lieing too. ive posted links that clarify everything. lots of reputable sorces vouch for this strain public and corperate aswell as a countrys goverment. are they all in on the scam or does this thread hurt YOUR scam?
As you know, or ought to know, probably 2/3 of what the seeds companies say about their strains is either puffery or outright BS (though some that depends on which company). If "Doggie's Nuts" were to tell me the sky was blue, I wouldn't believe them until I looked out the window. Yeah. . .that's how much these companies lie. See below for more.
No, oddly enough, I'm not inclined to take a spokesman from Mexican narcotics administration at their word on cannabis genetics.
You're the one alleging "conspiracy", not me.
If you have links to "grow journals" or any other firsthand knowledge about this strain, then by all means, post the links. I'd love to see them.
I don't believe its impossible to create a perennial cannabis strain. I think every other dioecious plant is perennial, including hops, and some people have speculated that cannabis might have been perennial before it was cultivated by man.
Such a plant would basically be like a rosebush. It would flower every year, and then regrow the next year to flower again. That might be nice if you wanted to maintain one plant indefinitely, though I think in practice such a trait would be of limited value to most growers. Note that pretty much ANY cannabis plant can be "regenerated" from flowering to vegetative state just by leaving a few leaves on the plant and switching back to 12-12 lighting. You don't need any special strains to do that, and in fact I've heard of it happening outdoors naturally with ordinary sativa plants in places where there are mild winters.
Also note that many true perennial strains are still not frost resistant, and don't survive cold winters well, so even if you did have a strain that acted like a perennial in Mexico, that doesn't mean it would regrow every year in New Jersey!
Now, from the ad copy:
This variety has been a long time coming and definitively confirms that the times they are a changing! As believe it or not this is deciduous herbaceous perennial strain
First a vacuous statement, then lots of big syllable words that together don't add up. A perennial "deciduous" plant keeps its stems intact, and at the end of the season, just the leaves drop off. A herbaceous perennial plant has all the parts above the ground die off at the end of the season. A perennial plant can either be herbaceous or deciduous, but not both.
For those of you that are not that horticulturally aware this means it has the ability to re-emerge after it has died.
Well. . .no. We've already established who isn't "horticulturally aware". Plants are not vampires; they cannot "re-emerge" after they've died.
Many plants will lose all their leaves in the winter or die back to the stem, then re-grow in the spring, but these plants haven't died, they've just gone dormant over the winter.
Presumably this perennial strain falls into this category.
Yes the seeds and not so commonly the plant can over winter and re-emerge come the spring, as in this little, or should we say big beauty will auto flower once it is established - if left to be it will set seeds, then these seeds will grow and then these plants will do the same thing so on and so forth ad infinitum!
So now the seller is saying these "special" plants most often
DO NOT survive the winter! So what's the point?
Every cannabis strain sets seeds "ad infinitum" to perpetuate itself for the next generation, and of course those seeds survive through the winter.
For some of you that have still not seen the light, this means that it can grow wild and if left uncontrolled will colonise the areas where it is placed! in one season it can produce 3-4 generations of offspring and as each generation ripens they will do the same thing! In plain English this strain can grow wild and take over- if uncontrolled it will come back with a vengeance every season there after!
How is this different than any
ruderalis-based autoflowering strain? All of them will produce several generations of plants per year, and can colonize their growing areas.
In fact any cannabis plant can colonize its growing are if uncontrolled, it just takes a few seasons. That's why the plant is called "weed"; it grows this way as a weed in many parts of the globe, including in the American mid-West!
If I'm interpreting this correctly (and I admit the BS description makes it hard) this strain is supposed to be able to lie dormant over a winter then regrow in the spring. . .but only 'not so commonly'!
Again, any cannabis plant can potentially do this if the winters are mild enough. It would be interesting if there were plants that could go totally bare to stem with no leaves then regrow as a TRUE perennial, but I haven't yet seen one like that, and it seems to me like this seller isn't making that claim here.
I'll see if anyone on here has grown this strain - I'm intrigued
