Rocket Soul
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My 2 cts: I think some of the old school glory is simply down to more of the weed was being grown outdoors - while the quality of the bud to the touch of your hand is not the same as indoors HID and its harder to pull of a perfect grow theres a special magic in properly sunkissed outdoor (green house not so much). No matter what genetics you have the genes need to be triggered; for smells and high this mostly means blues/uvs and a correct coverage of the red band.
So growing an indoor plant plant is not going to give you a full genetic expression. Now imagine if youre breeding like this; even if youre not trying to breed out "goodness" everytime you select for something youre going to lose something aswell. If all of the progeny wasnt fully expressed genetically you dont know what youre losing, since it wasnt fully expressed in that special pheno you should have chosen. You dont even have to breed against a trait to lose it.
Outdoors breeding is hard to do: you cant have several males side by side and control your breeding process. So each year one you can cross one male in one space, though you can use several females. Indoors this is easy with separate grow rooms. So the more interest in breeding strains, the more indoor breeding the more plants bred without full genetic expression and the more things are lost. Maybe we kinda did this to ourselves by having such interest in growing new genetics and just general grow interest.
My buddy breeds with oldschool genetics (all from hippie seeds brought back from travels or old mystery cuts, and full uv supplementation. You can clearly notice a difference in high in those genetics and its crosses. Its not that its super powerfull it just feels a bit wider, fuller and clean.
So growing an indoor plant plant is not going to give you a full genetic expression. Now imagine if youre breeding like this; even if youre not trying to breed out "goodness" everytime you select for something youre going to lose something aswell. If all of the progeny wasnt fully expressed genetically you dont know what youre losing, since it wasnt fully expressed in that special pheno you should have chosen. You dont even have to breed against a trait to lose it.
Outdoors breeding is hard to do: you cant have several males side by side and control your breeding process. So each year one you can cross one male in one space, though you can use several females. Indoors this is easy with separate grow rooms. So the more interest in breeding strains, the more indoor breeding the more plants bred without full genetic expression and the more things are lost. Maybe we kinda did this to ourselves by having such interest in growing new genetics and just general grow interest.
My buddy breeds with oldschool genetics (all from hippie seeds brought back from travels or old mystery cuts, and full uv supplementation. You can clearly notice a difference in high in those genetics and its crosses. Its not that its super powerfull it just feels a bit wider, fuller and clean.