I'm somewhat sympathetic to Paradise keeping the genetic background/makeup of their strains secret as it allows them to keep an exclusive claim on the strains. Also, by releasing their best sellers strictly as femmed seeds they can keep other breeders from f2'ing or inbreeding their lines in their pure form. The possibility still remains for someone to BX their femmed lines but that would take awhile and with no guarantee of an honest reproduction. People could also S1 their work but I think most would prefer to buy from the original source, even at a higher price. They have the closest thing I have seen to copyright on their strains and that equals $$$... they did the work to bring out these gems so can we really blame them for trying to protect their work? Unlike the work of many seed co's around I'm yet to hear a single post stating 'I hated the Opium/Spoetnik#1' etc. For now, it seems everything they touch turns to gold. Or maybe they are just professionals in a market flooded with amateur work. To all those who have posted pics and shared their experiences with this strain, thankyou very much... Hopefully I'll drop some pics in aswell in the not too distant future...
Humbling post. From my limited experience with Paradise Seeds they have been stellar. The Ice Cream, Opium and Nebula's were all top notch. I would agree they are golden strains that I wouldn't ever want to lose. They have done amazing work on their genetics and do deserve the choice to prevent amateurs from making F2's or other tasks that could potentially reduce or remove key expressions sought out by the strain developers. As long as they keep releasing fine quality genetics that are widely available to the public, it doesn't affect me all that much. Although, I would love to see a whole selection of Ice Cream crosses, I guess they will all have to be with the Ice Cream as the mother. Which will take longer to pin point the right male expressions, since it's a lot harder to initially see what expressions a male has before crossing it to a number or strains or a couple dominant and stably expressing ibl's like Deep chunk. =]
Another thought behind the reason they might be keeping the genetics secret: When I was talking to Danny Danko from High Times at one of their conventions. He said that a fair amount of breeders who started off in Amsterdam breed with a handful of genetics that grow well in the cold climates of Amsterdam. Of course there is always many exceptions, but according to him Paradise mainly uses genetic staples that have been around for some time. They are crossed together with key winning phenos or with other top end non-Holland genetics from around the world. It could be that many of the strains are based on strains such as Northern Lights to name one, and some people in the cannabis community might attach some stigma to the older, but not necessarily inferior genetics. (The Ice Cream and Nebula rock my mind and world out of the park)
. I wonder if Paradise worried about people going with other crosses from newer strains, feeling they would be better. When Paradise and those who have tried their genetics know they are all true gem's and should be respected as such. This is just an inkling. If anyone has a good argument against Paradise's genetic hording and secrecy I'm always open to listening to new perspectives or exposure to points I haven't heard yet =]Again, from my experience, many of the strains from Paradise have gone far beyond the highs, smells and tastes of even some of the top breeders in the game. I'm in line to try every single Paradise strain I can, regardless of how many new Chemdawg or Sour Diesel crosses come out. Which of course I will be trying as well
but my affinity for the paradise strains I've tried so far is so strong the other big cuts don't deter my enchantment with trying all that Paradise has to offer. Ice Cream and Nebula are still some of the best and most exotic strains I've come across. Still waiting on a totem pole, true Opium pheno. The one's I tried actually smelled a lot like Ice Cream, and Grape Jelly that I wondered if Ice Cream was used in Opium? They seemed to be the off-shoot pheno's not the cover photo Opium(the totem), that my friend finally got going.Bi0hazard
I think tga worked with it on there sputnik line years ago.
