JJFOURTWENTY
Well-Known Member
I don't see how anyone could develop that many, at least with proper testing. If you take 2 pure strains an make F1's that fairly easy. The next generation you should start looking with about 300 seed, actually more. F3 you should start with 700. So do you test every plant? Not weight them but dry cure and smoke them, test for tolerance build up and such? I smoke a lot, a whole lot but I don't feel I can test more than a few strains at a time (over the course of a few weeks) and it would take even more time to sort phenos. I'm not calling you a pollen chucker but I do have a hard time believing that all of you strains have been tested correctly. Not trying to pick shit, but Shantibaba has been at this 20-30 years and does not have the list of strains you do. DJ short has also been working on his lines for just as long and only has about 5 or so but he smokes all possible examples (as should all breeders).
simply making one cross from someone else's lines then selling the result as something unique is the very definition of a "pollen chucker".
Not that by itself there is anything wrong with simply crossing plants to get F1 seeds. All true breeding has to start there, and as you know, with the right parents, you can get absolutely outstanding plants that way.
But just doing that doesn't make you a breeder!
It takes two YEARS to do enough crosses to create a truly unique and (at least mostly) stable line, and I think that's where you're going to start to separate the children from the adults, so to speak.
It's nothing but pollen chucking at it's finest. There, someone had to say it! Yeah they may use a good male and hit a bunch of elite clones with him, but 60 strains or whatever pretty much overnight?? Come on, the only result that can possibly come out of that is some straight up F1 madness... and at a 100 bucks a pack, have fun pheno hunting! Someone else in one of the other RD threads has already grown out a half pack and reported six different phenos from six seeds - no surprise there, lolz.
+Rep to both Bigtacofarmer and Jogro for droppin' the facts/truth up in here.