EastCoastIndica
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Chimera's Cookie
Chimera's Cookie
Just thought I'd repost this here.
Chimera's Cookie
I think you are misunderstanding the concept of highway robbery. Highway robbery is when you driving down the highway and someone blocks your egress. You have nowhere to go in front of you. Then someone else comes behind you and again blocks your escape. You are essentially trapped with no way out, an forced to surrender your possessions.
Nobody is being forced to buy these seeds, they are buying them of their own free will and choice. Since they have a choice in whether t purchase or not, there is no highway robbery, despite the melodramatic analogy.
Rarity is a factor of supply, there are next to none of these available - and less available to the open market on an hourly basis. As you may remember from Economics 101, price is determined by the intersection of the supply and demand curves; when demand is high and supply is low, a higher price is commanded for any good, product or service.
I have previously outlined the process through which I went to determine the veracity of the cutting used to create the S1. I had only planned to make enough for my own breeding work, not for distribution. I decided to take 300 of those seeds and make them available to growers who might not be able to secure the original plant, or wanted to explore the recombinant generation without having to make the seeds themselves. As you can see from the demand and interest, other growers have found value in these seeds and their supply is rapidly being depleted.
This iinformation s readily available on the internet, but thank you for posting it again here for the growers who may have missed it.
Our gas chromatograph, when it is up and running, is a very useful tool for determining terpene profiles and quantifying the individual components within the terpene matrix, but also gives us a good qualitative look at the cannabinoids present within the plant. For me it a crucial tool in plant selections because it allows me to examine plants on a set of characteristics that can't be accurately measured by the 6 senses- how the plant makes me feel being the 6th sense. As part of my research into every plant we grow for selections, we - as stated above - screen every plant for it's chemical profile, and I collect, sort and analyze this data to understand the different types of flavours found in cannabis, but also how those chemical profiles are inherited or passed on from one generation to the next.
What I had meant to show it that this $4000 total generated from these seeds isn't going to be spent on hookers and blow, or fancy vehicles or vacations. The majority will go back to the site of which you find yourself a member, and the remainder provides a portion of the budget for the research explained above. I understand people feel that some seed prices are not justified in a free and open market, so one can only follow their heart and budget and decide if these seeds have potential value for themselves. I thank you for sharing your perspective here and outlining the reasons that you have decided not to purchase these seeds. As I have said before, this just leaves the opportunity for others who are happy to pay for them.
This work we do is solely for the love of cannabis and furthering her genetically; we create better seeds for growers through our research and development process. We stabilize traits and enhance and amplify others, and then we put those seeds back into the hands of growers so that growers can grow better yielding, less finicky plants that provide the highest quality flowers to their respective clients. As even your math shows, the $4000 that will be raised through the sale of these seeds is not even enough to cover the repair bill, let alone cover the analytical costs of screening even 100 of any given seed line. Surely you can't sit here seriously and pretend that this is a money making venture on the balance of the sale of 200 seeds, given that the expense of screening that many seeds far exceeds the return from the 200!
I want to thank you for posting those pictures. Clearly your plant is not the cookies cut I isolated from the many that float around.View Image
As you can clearly see from the picture included in this post, the subtending leaflets of the cookies (the leaves that surround the colas) are rounded not pointed and serrated as those in your picture are. Clearly that plant you have sourced is not the same as the plant I used for production of this S1. I am sure your plant is lovely, but this plant matches the chemical profile of the original cookies to a T, that is to say they have exactly the same chemical profile. The flowers are indistinguishable from those sold by the cookies family.
I wish you much care Slipnot from those roaming gangs of Democrats; we do not have them here where I live but I can empathize with you that such a thing must be very, very scary. Stay safe out there, and I hope you can find something to grow that brings you relief from such perilous thoughts.
Sincerely,
-Chimera
Just thought I'd repost this here.