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I'm beginning also to think in terms of naturalization, because when you examine the old heritage breeds and the way they became heritage breeds (i.e. heirloom) is that they were, in very large part, naturalized. The farmer selects seed stock to save from his healthiest, most robust, those with the most flavor or best production. This applies to flora and fauna. And so, I am beginning to select for naturalization purposes my vegetables and will, once I can begin growing subsequent cannabis generations in earnest, so will I with Mary be able to select out those lines that perform best for me in my local conditions.
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I had to treat that Septoria with the highest dose possible, too, which would suggest it has some real virulence, and perhaps that is the case because its ancestors lived through treatments that produced a more resistant fungus.
as does devolution...
Wikipedia said:...This view is rejected by modern evolutionary theory, in which adaptation arises from natural selection of forms best suited to the environment, and so can lead to loss of features when these features are costly to maintain. Thus for cave dwelling animals the loss of eyes arises because it is an advantage, not degeneracy.[1]...
Thing is, no matter how fast breeder in the west change things - out in Afganistan and Iran and everywhere else they are still breeding pure. They are not wasting their time ion this strain or that clone - the have been growing the same shit for a LONG time, and will keep doing it as long as there are people alive to smoke it. The western breeders are just filling a gap in a changing market.
The way I understand you, you're asserting that cannabis growers are responsible for many of the resistant diseases and pests we experience. I disagree with this idea, I feel that crops and landscape gardens are where this occurred and is still occurring on a much larger, vaster, grander scale than anyone growing cannabis could ever hope to realize. I think that home gardeners are about as ignorant as anyone else, including cannabis growers, too.Seamaiden, exactly the point I was making. Im not saying MJ farmers "Created" any of the diseases we now see. But I am saying they have stregnthed their ability to not be killed by methods we use, and because of the environment alot of MJ farmers have, is conducive to building resistance.
I feel you've got it backward, no offense intended. You might want to look into the issues with agricultural crops that occur specifically because of how genetics are being mixed up into new stock, which can dilute or even eliminate other genetic code. And when cannabis breeders who are after some rather specific features breed for those features, others are lost, I'm certain in some instances never to be "found" (in the gene pool) again. This has created a virtual genetic bottleneck, and I don't think it's just my opinion (though I do hold this opinion), and bottlenecks are already known to reduce diversity, not increase it.BTW breeders are making the genetic footprint of this plant bigger, not smaller. We are breeding new strains and when you do so, mutations occur, increasing the genetic diversity of the gene pool. :)
I feel that crops and landscape gardens are where this occurred and is still occurring on a much larger, vaster, grander scale than anyone growing cannabis could ever hope to realize. I think that home gardeners are about as ignorant as anyone else, including cannabis growers, too.
I have no answer for the feminized beans, I'm still learning and trying to wrap my head around how sexual expression can be pushed one way or another (outside of feminization, that is).
The way I understand you, you're asserting that cannabis growers are responsible for many of the resistant diseases and pests we experience. I disagree with this idea, I feel that crops and landscape gardens are where this occurred and is still occurring on a much larger, vaster, grander scale than anyone growing cannabis could ever hope to realize. I think that home gardeners are about as ignorant as anyone else, including cannabis growers, too.
I feel you've got it backward, no offense intended. You might want to look into the issues with agricultural crops that occur specifically because of how genetics are being mixed up into new stock, which can dilute or even eliminate other genetic code. And when cannabis breeders who are after some rather specific features breed for those features, others are lost, I'm certain in some instances never to be "found" (in the gene pool) again. This has created a virtual genetic bottleneck, and I don't think it's just my opinion (though I do hold this opinion), and bottlenecks are already known to reduce diversity, not increase it.
Perhaps this link will help.
^couldn't agree more.
and any skeptics that don't believe in the harms of genetic bottlenecking should keep a close eye on what happens to industrial alfalfa over the next couple years....
. To find out where botany's cutting edge technology is today, Pollan points to the cannabis growing community.
We're all in this together regardless of the thread title, (which i still don't get.)Thats what im saying. :harvest:
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