TheWholeTruth
Well-Known Member
Modern breeding practices have caused this, it started with breeding in greenhouses and then high pressure sodium lights and now possibly led's too. Other factors of modern breeding also come into play. I am old I do not misremember, I know folks who never take a tolerance break, and newer crossings are not proving to be more powerful, there not strains only crossings.
Most sativa's of today are actually hybreds, all you have to do is look at the oldest pictures of sativa buds to prove it to yourself. Good original sativa's only came from a handful of places, anywhere else they were low grade. I have never been able to grow a good sativa indoors let alone breed them to be better. Others are now claiming to be able to do it, but most of what I see are hybreds, sativa's of old did not make big fat buds especially indoors.
Its hard to find sativas like that now. Most of the places selling landraces now seem to have sativas that are heavily pumped up an seem to be bred for commercial use. Not many places left on the planet that still have those old sativas with tiny little airy lose flowers. Especially not good ones like there used to be a few decades back.