as far as I can see only Mandala seeds truely creates their own strains from landrace strains, they personally find from all over the world.all the rest just plagerize each others work or juggle each others pre-existant strains and then take credit for an all new strain .I guess we are all master seed breaders,every time we put 2 or more strains together.by the way,my own true f1 hybrids are better than any of the original parent strains i bought from the dutch.I curious to know if anyone else noticed this?also who teaches english to the dutch,its as though speed racer,and yoda tought these guys our language.nothing but run on sentences,and strange phrasiology.you'ld think they'ld proof read they're strain discriptions,or pay an intelligent person to write for them.again only mandala seems to grasp the rudiments of correct sintax.I guess its just a Dutch thing(jersey thing rrr).
You are right about how most strains are created today, they are simple f1 crosses of existing strains from other breeders
it is a little bit like making music by sampling the songs of others, this does not mean that the results will be bad though
what is wrong with all this imo, is not the breeders or the "plagiarism" but the cheerleading fanboys who follow these chumps around in the first place putting breeders on a pedestal this is what creates the notion of master breeders
some of these breeders have and will admit to only using 50 plants to select from for breeding material LOL might as well forget natural selection then
i am not sure why you focus on mandala, who really are nothing more than "new kids on the block"
you should really of mentioned neville and shantibaba who between them are responsible
for more of the original genetics that is still used today in 100s of crosses than any other breeders
still none of this changes anything, since good weed is a personal preference, just like good music
peace