colocowboy
Well-Known Member
Please don’t slide up in here and make like you’re going to take us all to school. Seems like your trying to make a point that means nothing to this particular community. Simple fact is that Bodhi does preservation of lineage, primarily. If you knew about him and his personal philosophy, you would understand that he wants to inspire people to work the plant as it was intended, to get to know the plant and be a good shepherd of its future.And you are exactly the kind of guy i describe. You don't even know why you hate fem and S1. Community ideological purity i guess, because you have no argument and surely didn't even try to answer mine.
Yes good males are hard to come by and require skill and time, so as i said breeding with fem and S1 are easier and quicker (yes it's the dark side little padawan ). Their is this blockage on breeding with fem only, for a reason i don't understand. Some commercial breeder out there seems to not have this mind restriction and work their line without male, and i am not sure they get so much problem... If use STS is so horrible i surely recommend to never enter in a scientific lab, you will have a heart attack
And yes i am a "beggar" because when i start of pack of 12 seeds that i paid 75$ and get 2 females i find it boring, especially when i don't want to make breeding with the males. It's pure waste of time, money and space.
If you want to talk genetic and breeding, i think i can do it, i spend 5 years learning in a university how plant are working.
The only thing i must grant against sts are in the epigenetic. It's how an organism regulate it's own gene expression, and experiences modify how the organism's gene express themself. For example for us human, a woman that was rape will have a different expression of some gene that are related to anxiety regulation, and these modification will pass on next generations. I don't think i ever read a study that talk of epigenetic in cannabis, so we don't know if the sts process have an influence in that regard, so there is the the benefit of the doubt, but in fact their is many other factor like environment and stress...
But in the pure genetic way, i don't believe sts do something wrong...
That said, one could argue that it’s YOUR apparent need to force the ideology of bottlenecking every expression of the plant rather than Opening the doorway to expression.
Like you stated it’s really about the goal of the breeding project, which for all intensive purposes selfing and feminization are not really breeding it’s more to preserve (bottleneck) a specific chemotype. Finally, whether you “believe” in it or not, genetically forcing a plant to produce hormones that cause intersex traits opens that genetic expression, period. Feminization is a genetic modification. There will be unintended consequences. First of which is the noticeable uptick in cross gender expression in modern cannabis. Only 2 ways that can be, the trait hasn’t been discriminated in breed specific expressions and purposeful use of that trait in broadly distributed seed stock. The only way to get rid of this trait is to select AWAY FROM IT. You say you took botany, prove me wrong!