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I need to learn the quote reply process, but this is a reply to npaka's comments.
This spud’s for you: A breeding revolution could unleash the potential of potatoWild potatoes, however, hold valuable, untapped genetic diversity. One trait from those wild plants, Mendes says, "could save our life."
It not just Cannabis Landraces that are important. All food crops can use genes from Landraces or wild relatives to improve upon.
This spud’s for you: A breeding revolution could unleash the potential of potato
In Colombia farmers have articial lighting in the mountains in order to adapt to the western hybrids
Colombian marijuana growth in the mountains.
@Imone . Acording the Knowledge that i take from troutmans Link: It says adding a completely ambundant Trait to a Wanted Strain (say Thai) . So, we could probably choose a Autoflower... They say further: the unwanted Traits of the newly added Strain have to be bread out.. So that means we should basically breed a Autoflower so far till it basically becomes a wished Strain, or atleast to a degree. (Cause breeding all unwanted out, and get ahold of wanted is basically what makes a Dreamlandrace) . So: we could probably NOT take a Autoflower, acording this secound Information, cause it doesent hold any Trippy Traits at all. But listen:
They also say: we cant further develop a already etablished Strain, wich has Traits basically lost, we cant basically go back soo deeply (man, read the numbers wich they select of, 10 000s i recall) . So i guess searching Autotraits in LandraceThais also not work, if they are deeeep, i menan deep burried even. bare with me:
I think, best we could doo is: find a close related Strain, wich resembles Trippy, but also shortflower Characteristics. Say southern Chinese, breed the softness out, breed the trippyness in, PLUS combine this to a Ultratrippy Thai Strain, wich we also select for shortflowering Side while retaining trippy Qualities. Cross them togehter. Last but not least: we can reach Goals only with the Chinese-Strain, just select for trippyness, if the Trait somewhere there.. Or use only the Thai, an select for shortflowering if its there.
All in all, i learn from that Papers, that we can select for something, if its substencially there, and should do it rather than searching for something illusive/utopical?
So: Dont take a 25 Weeker ultratrippy Thai and select for utopical shortflower, rather search for a Strains wich have Traits there, not as deep burried, like a slightly trippy Chinese, or a slightly shortflowering Thai, go from there.
I mean if you have a place where you stay, not as me, you can build automatic Lightdep, cause above Scenarios are Work for Decades, and probably still wont yeald hallucinogenic 8 Weekers..
I know what your Question actually was by the Way: will a Thai stay a Thai while reproduced or selectively bread in say Usa..
Ngakpa what happens when a couple of breeders take colombian, or durban or ? seeds from a couple or breeders and grow them in a new climate, say north texas or southern oklahoma? Will the new genotype have self selected for important traits or lose the original traits and with it the original values? How can we maintain a vibrant and virile strain that is nonetheless adapted to a new climate and geography?
When someone brought up potatoes I thought of the the book and series "Botany of Desire" that was around some time ago. I seem to remember farmers in South America growing all sorts of different potatoes, sometimes in neighboring farms. You could have hundreds of different varieties grown in a small area. Is it the same with cannabis? For example in the same village do you get farmers growing the same varieties, or has each farmer got their own genetics?
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/potato/true-potato-seed-growing.htmWhile potatoes grown from tubers or seed potatoes produce an exact genetic clone of the mother plant,
those grown from true potato seed are not clones and will have different characteristics than the parent plant.
The first pic from that article is potato used to make chuño: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuño
Chuño would be rudelaris potato. They are small. In the link is explained its use
These potatoes in the picture are potato haze. They make delicious trippy thick chips I could only dream about when I was living in Asia
The one in the right is the natural coloured one. The one on the left is painted with red colouring, it seems there is a market demand for colour
They weigh 500 grams each and is the average weight, you have bigger too
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Peru holds a lot of valuable landrace food. It is one of the last refugees of landrace food in the world.
Peru corn is amazing, they should be used to improve corn all over the world, the most delicious and bigger grains in the world. This is the list of all of the peruvian landrace corn, didnt find link in english, sorry: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variedades_peruanas_de_maíz
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Old vs new, traditional vs modern is a very interesting subject that deserves its own thread
Are you ajarn?
People living in rural areas are not more traditional than the posh population of Bangkok. They all like their food the same away and are passionate about that, it is the same all over asia and the world, regardless of living in the countryside or in the city. People are nationalistic about their food and at the same time they all buy at 7/11 and Big C and want hamburgers and pizzas.
What I am impressed really is the acceptance and surge of coffee in Asia in the last 20 years. Asians never liked coffee and always drunk tea. Maybe cafe lao is the exception. It is another example of marketing and food culture hybrid
But both rural and city dwellers are very quick in destroying or altering nature in order to make more housing in overpopulated areas or for whatever reason it is done in the name of "progress" with total disregard of consequences
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In that video the advertisement for dutch passion varieties is showed big. As you know, if something is advertised for and is a problematic article, it will be sold under the table. I have never seen advertisement for a product in thailand if you dont have that product for sale, you know how it is...
In Colombia farmers have articial lighting in the mountains in order to adapt to the western hybrids, traditional varieties are a remembering of times gone long ago
There seems a consensus that you need a large population to maintain a landrace? Is this the case?
You could have hundreds of different varieties grown in a small area. Is it the same with cannabis?
For example in the same village do you get farmers growing the same varieties, or has each farmer got their own genetics? Do they swap genetics with each other?