Can someone please explain this?

conor c

conor c

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bignugs68 said:
Ya know, according to them scientists - like Bugbee, there isn't really a sativa/indica. Like on paper there no way to chart or any data that has shown "yep the old boys were right sativa is the cerebral buzz and indica is the body buzz that's less energizing".

I've researched the hell out of it and still do on occasion, but have yet to find any data proving one or the other. Case in point for me is for the longest time I thought Northern Lights was a sativa, because it always gave me some energy and curiosity with the high. Yet it's indica
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Thing is northern lights is many different things what one is northern lights to you the #1 or the #5 most nl around today are a combination tbh
 
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bignugs68

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conor c said:
Thing is northern lights is many different things what one is northern lights to you the #1 or the #5 most nl around today are a combination tbh
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Right on, this was about 18 years ago. And though I'd had a few of the dank strains going around back in early 2000's(Maui Wowie, Sour Diesel, White Widow), Northern Lights has always held a special spot. Thought its buzz was perfect with energy, yet no paranoia, plus it was a little more...visually buzzing? lol
 
MtRainDog

MtRainDog

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bignugs68 said:
Right on, this was about 18 years ago. And though I'd had a few of the dank strains going around back in early 2000's(Maui Wowie, Sour Diesel, White Widow), Northern Lights has always held a special spot. Thought its buzz was perfect with energy, yet no paranoia, plus it was a little more...visually buzzing? lol
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First bag of weed I ever scored was sold to me as just Northern Lights. It was from an older kid at school who brought a bunch back from Amsterdam (this was in Germany, 1996). It didn't strike me as either sativa or indica as we label things today. I'd call it old school buzz. It was dank, and very trippy/visual. Absolutely one of my top stones ever.
 
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Zipz55

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tstick said:
"Mikado is a hybrid weed strain made from a genetic cross between two landrace strains. This strain is 70% indica and 30% sativa...."

If the strain is a hybrid between two, LANDRACE STRAINS, then how can the cross be 70% Indica and 30% Sativa? It is either going to be 100% Indica, 100% Sativa or, 50/50. What am I missing?
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It just means that the indica parent is more dominant in the cross and 70% of the offsprings are coming out leaning towards the indica side
 
Hook Daddy

Hook Daddy

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tstick said:
"Mikado is a hybrid weed strain made from a genetic cross between two landrace strains. This strain is 70% indica and 30% sativa...."

If the strain is a hybrid between two, LANDRACE STRAINS, then how can the cross be 70% Indica and 30% Sativa? It is either going to be 100% Indica, 100% Sativa or, 50/50. What am I missing?
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If I cross a Malawi and a Thai and collect the seeds they’re 50/50, right. Then I run the seeds and pollinate one with a Malawi. The seeds from the second run are 66% Malawi and 33% Thai, round to 70/30. I only used 2 landrace strains.
 
Krit

Krit

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Hook Daddy said:
If I cross a Malawi and a Thai and collect the seeds they’re 50/50, right. Then I run the seeds and pollinate one with a Malawi. The seeds from the second run are 66% Malawi and 33% Thai, round to 70/30. I only used 2 landrace strains.
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I think you nailed it. If you cross it again to one of the parents to get more of one of their traits than you can have 70/30 and still be just 2 landrace strains.
Maybe a little over thinking or maybe too much weed. LOL Still a real interesting thread with the conversations and subject of regarding the mixing of genetics.
 
conor c

conor c

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Hook Daddy said:
If I cross a Malawi and a Thai and collect the seeds they’re 50/50, right. Then I run the seeds and pollinate one with a Malawi. The seeds from the second run are 66% Malawi and 33% Thai, round to 70/30. I only used 2 landrace strains.
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It be a bx line in that situation though so very similar possibly but slightly different than if you just worked it and selected hard to one side through a few generations without a bx to either parent
 
tstick

tstick

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Hook Daddy said:
If I cross a Malawi and a Thai and collect the seeds they’re 50/50, right. Then I run the seeds and pollinate one with a Malawi. The seeds from the second run are 66% Malawi and 33% Thai, round to 70/30. I only used 2 landrace strains.
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I understand, now. I guess it just seemed a little misleading, to me. It sounded like the description was of a first-generation cross. But I see what you're saying. Thanks.

What would happen if the two landrace strains were both Sativa? -say...Panama Red and Acapulco Gold, for examples.... Wouldn't the cross then, technically, be genetically 50/50, but also 100% Sativa?
 
Hook Daddy

Hook Daddy

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tstick said:
I understand, now. I guess it just seemed a little misleading, to me. It sounded like the description was of a first-generation cross. But I see what you're saying. Thanks.

What would happen if the two landrace strains were both Sativa? -say...Panama Red and Acapulco Gold, for examples.... Wouldn't the cross then, technically, be genetically 50/50, but also 100% Sativa?
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Yes, exactly. I’m growing golden tiger now, which is a cross of two Thai sativas and two Malawi sativas, then crossed to each other, so a hybrid of 4 strains but still 100% sativa.
 
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