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Save your own seeds!!

expealadocious

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Genetic adaptation.
Living things evolve to their environment and the faster their lifespan, the faster they evolve.
With each passing generation genetics adapt to their environment, and the new information is coded into the seed.
With so much being crossed nowadays I think its important to remember the power of same strain self breeding and environmental adaptation, whether that be to your specific indoor environment or your climate based on geographic location.

Outdoors, the changes are interesting to watch. In the North for instance, self breeding with Southern genetics that cant perferm too well up North, will do better with each passing year as the moms program changes to the seeds.
I think the origin of the true skunk is Northernized sativa that was once peppery/hashy but is adapting to the conditions that make northern strains fruity (cold nights, short seasons)

Breed your own plants with themselves continually and ultimately they will adapt to your needs as their parents program them to.

Thats how we have so many hop varieties from the same old parent stock. Its their new, long-term geographic location and everything that goes along with their continuous generational changes.

Food for thought....
 

St. Phatty

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Breed your own plants with themselves continually and ultimately they will adapt to your needs as their parents program them to.


Breeders self-select the strains that are most helpful medically.

Self-medication at its finest.


We will know that Cannabis legalization is real, done & dusted, when patients are encouraged to -
grow their own because that's how they will get the best medicine ...
assuming they aren't too lazy to buy a pH meter <== like me.

:groupwave:
 

expealadocious

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living soil ph is self regulating luckily.... nature has no ph meter haha

I just meant to say that outside genetics arent required to change a plants genetic makeup.
Its neat to watch a plant adapt on its own over the years...
I recently scored a bunch of seeds of acupulco gold that has been inbred and naturalized to the North for over 30 years! yeehaw

My buddy calls it acupulco cat piss and it was from his parents honeymoon trip in the 70's haha
 

Midwest sticky

Resident Smartass & midget connoisseur
Breeders self-select the strains that are most helpful medically.

Self-medication at its finest.


We will know that Cannabis legalization is real, done & dusted, when patients are encouraged to -
grow their own because that's how they will get the best medicine ...
assuming they aren't too lazy to buy a pH meter <== like me.

:groupwave:

What the hell is a ph meter? Lol

Good luck with your projects expealadocious
 

yesum

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Those Acapulco Gold seeds sound like gold! I wonder if they kept the high from the original or much of it anyways. That stuff is legendary.
 

stoned-trout

if it smells like fish
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I been doing it all along..i try and atleast backup everything in seed form if its not a hybrid and even then for fun sometimes....yeehaw..if you grow enough seeds and choose wisely you would be surprised...my north strain was mitymite x passion1[ x c99]....still have seeds from way back then...I should pop some and make a fresh new batch... I always been a seed hoarder/pollen chucker/wanna be breeder...
 

expealadocious

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Those Acapulco Gold seeds sound like gold! I wonder if they kept the high from the original or much of it anyways. That stuff is legendary.


Dude, this is crazy but the dude who gave me the seeds...his house just burned down completely today... terrible news. Chimney fire they said. I have the only seeds now.
Anyway I have some babies started. Flowered 2 of them early for a gender test and they were both male....eek. Yes Im curious to see what the bud is like big time. I have about 15 seeds still but its a shame my buddy lost all his. He had thousands and countless other gems... guy was a bean nazi too... still never would crack the ones I gave him despite my encouragements.... but hey
The power of a seed.
 

MJPassion

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Seeds are more precious than gold!

Especially the kind you can grow into food!

No currency on earth could ever be as precious.
 

MJPassion

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Dude, this is crazy but the dude who gave me the seeds...his house just burned down completely today... terrible news. Chimney fire they said. I have the only seeds now.
Anyway I have some babies started. Flowered 2 of them early for a gender test and they were both male....eek. Yes Im curious to see what the bud is like big time. I have about 15 seeds still but its a shame my buddy lost all his. He had thousands and countless other gems... guy was a bean nazi too... still never would crack the ones I gave him despite my encouragements.... but hey
The power of a seed.

Hope he & FAM are OK.
You say dude was a seed Nazi...
Does that mean he didn't share much?
He'll be happier than a two stuck dogs when you give him a baggie of AG seeds you made.
 

expealadocious

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Oh no I meant that he'd archive them to "be planted someday" but never actually pop any....
Id give him stuff I made and basically " man... you're gonna love those, pop em!" and he's say " yeah..I will SOMEDAY"
I had 6 chem dog x bubba kush fem seeds I made and gave him 3... when I lost mine with my stoned dumb self, I begged him to plant his... after a couple months of pleading I begged and he just gave them back to me and I popped them...
So thats what I meant by seed Nazi... HOARDER haha

But I understand... I archive all I can for the future
 

MJPassion

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I had a friend I was sharing all my seeds with until this years end of season. Now he gets only the crosses he asks for. He said he didn't want too many varieties so I just give him more seeds per pack. B-)

Now I need to make a redundant seed storage container to prevent losses like your friend just experienced.
 
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