I've grown outdoors for almost 40 yrs. now,I grabbed some "old school" Barnie's/D Passion strains and some Mass Med. for this season even though I did NOT need seeds. I'm just a sick in the head grower w/ a tupperware FULL of packs from all over the place 1/2 to 3/4 unused. It's a crapshoot that gets worse every yr. w/crazy names of strains and poly-hybrids crossed w/poly-hybrids. The pheno potential is now astronomical and plants rarely have uniformity. Burpee probably works a new tomato for yrs. before it's released,now most breeders find a good plant and hit it's pollen to 10 other strains and throw it out there releasing 10 strains at a pop, some do some diligence w/ 100 plant pheno hunts but no where near what a veg, seed co. does before releasing a new variety. ONE variety mind you not 10 at a time.
In the late 80's I unloaded a truck at work for a driver from Missouri, we rapped about weed,he said he would burn w/me after work and that he grew on the banks of the Missouri river. He had 3 types and every one was one toke, eye popping, WOW type of reaction. He gave me a few grams of his most numerous kind and I literally gave him my address to mail me some seed,I said to put no return address if he got nervous. Needless to say what could have been my "Chemdog" moment never happened as I never heard or saw him again and have literally chased those flavors in growing for over 35 years now to NO avail.
He didn't have names for the strains but did call one "Rosebud",Grown outdoors mind you, no supersoil, latest greatest hype 10k living microbe hydro store BS or perfect climate computer controlled grow room either. Don't mean to ramble,my point is something has been lost in cannabis and now the gene pool is so watered down w/crossing new strains that have multiple lineages that stability/uniformity/consistency has suffered.
