some of the best keepers i have found over the years have come from strains that showed phenotype diversity
it would be nice if breeders were honest about the strains they are selling
if a strain is known to be uniform because it is an IBL or has been stabilized via other breeding methods
this does not mean all offspring will be like twins/clones, they will share some similar traits
breeders overplay this and pretend the plants will be more uniform offspring than they actualy are
the most uniform plant i have grown in recent times over the last 5 years or so, is belladona from paridise seeds
i had 4 females and they all looked identical, and tasted the same. however this is without doubt the worst strain i have grown perhaps ever
maybe some of the seedsman junk could be worse, it had zero flavor very dull high, and very little resin, it was a low quality skunk strain
as for subcool, i have only ever grown "the flav" i did not like it, and it was nothing like the descriptions on his site
however i only had 2 females, and one of these plants was a very nice plant, good yield good potency good nuggets , but not a flavor i like (tasted like a very strong lemon haze)
its a bit like going into a restaurant and ordering some food, and receiving a totaly differnt meal to the one you ordered, you are hungry so you eat it anyway and find the meal was still good but it was not what you asked for .. i get why folk are not happy
.. for me growing most strains is like this, breeders are just simply not honest about their strains but as long as you get something half decent folk are not likely to complain too much . maybe that's how most breeders see it
on my most recent run, eisbaer from alphakronic this is nothing like its descriptions, it has 2 very different females, both of which i will not keep
blues from ugorg, this is part of a cubing project and is reportably 87.5% (blues/livers) and 12.5% dj shorts blueberry
from the 5 females i have, only 1 is a keeper, they have similar smell but all have totaly differnt flavours, atleast 2 main phenotypes that seem split 50/50
so it is not as uniform as the 87.5% would suggest, still it has given me a great keeper that i am very happy with
i like to treat it like a lottery, or maybe a lucky dip, you never know what the genetics will bring when you plant your seeds
if you want uniformity, just grow cuttings that other people have collected and decided are good for you
peace
