tstick
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Hmmm...You DO bring up a valid point. Chucking pollen and then having thousands of seeds to select from is a far better way of finding "those" elite phenotypes in subsequent generations... But most people don't have that kind of setup and the time to do it and the trusted friends to get the job done. I guess that's why seeds are expensive.I'm defiantly gearing up to work with more of my chucks. These "breeders" always talk about selection but they only sell you 10-15 seeds & the packs are usually limited in # to some extent. So chucking IMO is the smarter move in acquiring the quantity of seeds to do selections.
I can also understand some bitterness expressed by skilled breeders, too. Not everyone knows how to produce a connoisseur-level finished flower, but anyone can always produce seeds...So, instead of worrying and laboring over what it really takes to produce a connoisseur flower to smoke, at the end of the road, some pollen chuckers are forgoing that part of it, altogether, and just making seeds from anything -regardless of the quality. Seeds look alike -regardless of the genetics. Flowers don't. It's easier to make seeds and call them whatever you want...They are small and inconspicuous to move around compared to stinky flowers. It's wide-open territory for any greedy-minded vampires.
I went to college in Eastern South Dakota near the Iowa border for a couple semesters -years ago when they still called them semesters! And one day, my friend and I went driving down an old country road where a bunch of wild hemp plants were growing. We didn't know the difference so we harvested a bunch of the plants and took them back to the dorm to dry (lol -truth!)...Long story short...it tasted like shit and was unsmokeable. BUT, the seeds looked great! There were pounds and pounds of seeds. If I had know then, what I know now, then I might be tempted to make a killing selling small packs of hemp seeds to people and then skipping town after a few months before anyone could see the harvest! Nah...I'm kidding. I wouldn't have done that...but just saying... someone certainly would -especially by today's standards of ethics!