Wait where we going, I forgot?
Straight back to the couch my good man
Wait where we going, I forgot?
Straight back to the couch my good man
Hi, Cannafornia.
You appear to be at an interesting crossroads relevant to your genetic experiments.
If others have devoted time and energy towards developing a specific work, or simply stumbled upon specific qualities they endeavored to
preserve, perhaps attribution for the work of others might be continued. It is not the `name` necessarily being preserved,
but the respect for others that might have worked to preserve or improve characteristics of a thing they found interesting.
It might be advantageous to define a scope, or mission, for your work.
Is your work based on `improving` existing
genetic lines, or developing `new` lines.
Both might be within your scope.
There might be rewards in `improving` a
thing, as well as developing a thing from `scratch`.
Both directions might have their place, in most fields of endeavor.
The key item for the experimenter to acknowledge might be recognizing, or deciding which scope they might be working
in, and accurately conveying that scope to fellow experimenters - for accuracy in future experiments.
It might be an option to preserve those original `names` to preserve respectful attribution for those that may have
done previous work on those genetics.
It might be advantageous to consider a response that you might have to others changing the `names` of your work.
The previous experimenters endeavored to preserve whatever they found, whether that process
may have been incidental, or precisely scientific. In either instance, the previous experimenter did the(ir) work. Such
work might be considered, and perhaps not omitted or discarded.
A possible experimental option for blind development of your own works might be to take sample populations from
each of the genetics that you have acquired, perhaps five to ten of each.
Perhaps mix them up in a cup or jar, so the
initial sowing is `blind`. From the sample population, perhaps, choose a single male and a single female for a `new`
line.
If the experimenter had worked with the same lines a few occasions, they might be able to glean the traits of the lines once they reach a certain stage, and be able to associate it with a specific `name`, however, that is only the first part of the
experiment.
Relevant to `new` genetic experimentation and development, a `blind` population of a sample groups, mixed and
unsorted might be an optional start point.
The larger the population, the better,
yet it could be as small as forty-nine or so.
From that sample group, after taking a cutting from each and moving through the entire season, perhaps
selecting only a single female and a single male for development of a `new` genetic convergence, perhaps discarding the `unselected`.
Even if the characteristics from the parents might be gleaned during this, if the initial population was
`mixed` and `blind`, it might then be, perhaps, scientifically ethical to `name` the work whatever you desire. Selection
might be the work.
For that work, honoring the `name` of that selection, or `selected name` might be part of the reward
for the `work`.
From the`selected` single female and single male from the larger population, an experimenter might have filtered 96%
of the original population, having `selected` approximately 4% of the population for continued experiments; whether that
future scope be variance exploration, or stabilizing projects.
In any event, that amount of `work` from a `blind` mixed and
unsorted (relatively `small`) population, might lead to progeny from those converged genetics that might be open for a
`new` `name`, as there would be minimal weight given to the selection process based on the `name` of the original
stock of the population.
The resultant progeny of the `new` genetic line might be open for any `name` that you might choose, as you would
have _began_ work on the `start` of the `new` line.
From there, the experimenter might further continue the process with
successive `generations` of the progeny of the original `blind` experiment.
That is, for example, from forty-nine of the
litter from the first round of experiments, perhaps selecting only two from that population - for stability of the `new` genetic
combination.
Or, perhaps increasing the selection process to four specimen, or two females and two males, if exploring for
variation or `sports`.
In any event, after experimenting with such a process, the experimenter might, perhaps, come to better appreciate
the `art` , `craft` or `work`commonly refered to as `selection`. And further, IF some genetic expression of significant
distinctiveness might be `found` through selection of desired traits, and the experimenter decided to `name` that cultivar,
they might well appreciate the continued attribution conveyed with the `selected` `name`, following a year or several
of `work` on `selection`.
The above is not intended to diminish the `work` of simply working with `smaller` populations for experimental development,
even if the initial population might be only two.
It is nearly impossible to `predict` how genes might recombine and express themselves in specific traits, even if controls may be placed on the process. `Sports`, or `variation` appears in nature - naturally.
If an experimenter might `feel` as though use of `new` names for established genetics may not be appropriate for all, a
possible solution might be to perform a complete cycle of `work` on a genetic line to the depth that the resultant progeny
might be considered `worked` by that experimenter.
It might be that not all experimenters will `agree` on what constitutes `new`, `improved`, or other matters. However, if the
experimenter themselves did the `work` on the genetic line, they at least _should_ be able to `create`, or `add` their own form
of attribution relating to `their` work - if the experiments were actually completed in earnest. The same process might also
give rise to greater appreciation for previous experimenters` work - and respect for the `name(s)` they may have selected for
those individual `things`.
At the close of the day, regardless of any others` interpretation of `your work`, _you (would) have done the work_ -
and that might be the `thing` that none can alter and may offer the most golden rewards - irrespective of at large interpretation of
the work.
This post is not necessarily about any specific topic, just some possible considerations for experimenters in any field of endeavor; posted here in the hope that it might be helpful.
Best,
/SRGB/
Very interesting. i like your set up. hope you dont mind me tagging along.
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i thought each of those was a swimming pool PPK for a sec and shit myself.
then i saw the CFLs and realised it was a smaller setup
What pheno and what seed company is that from? I saw your running testers