@hempy
The Haze Whisperer
The idea that an individual breeder could protect their lines forever is farcicle. Eventually the big canna you deride will adopt the techniques of a monsanto and figure out how to recreate the same strain or better through selective breeding and back crossing based in genetic sequencing and predictive algorithims. It is 100% possible for them to buy up f1 seed stock and select back to a suitable set of p1s capable of producing the same f1. Keeping the p1s held in a tight circle provides no protection for this.
I would rather see the legacy breeders banding together to form a nonprofit focused on preservation and sharing, building a seed bank and copywrighting before the big corps do.
Right now we have infighting and obfusciation of lineage to prevent other little fish from "cashing in on their work", breeders need to think beyond individual seed houses before it is too late.
Firstly commercial breeders sell and make hybrids and to make set hybrids you need the parent plants to make a set hybrid or poly hybrid and with out them you cant replicate the F1s try as you may.
Seed breeders sell seed placing patents costs money large amounts of money and putting patents on your seed makes it no better than big cannabis doing it.
Preservation is about protecting and reproducing genetics and i link that to land races or heirloom genetics not commercial genetics.
Commercial genetics are very different to land races or heirloom lines.
If a person likes a particular commercial line then they should grow out the seed select and make seed and that is what many do.
Most places are not legal to grow cannabis and even if they were you some how expect people to just devote time and money to produce seed so they then share the seed ?.
Making seed is not hard.