That's seed co's for ya. Only thing I don't get...Yields basically suck, potancy can be okay. Then again, I have used my own genetics (all but 1 clone only) that have gone WAY back. You'd figure since they're genetically modifying the strains, they'd be SICK
Plants are measured in our bongs, not in labs. F1 of GG4 x GG4 male induced plants have many variations.
Some appear 'okay' while other F1 will be hard to clone, smaller root balls and less vigorous . When tested, vigor from Y chrome is wacked. MANY times less vigorous , smaller yielding plants are from improper breeding. GMO.
GMO defined by Lino
Ugly and Pretty Mutants
I lecture about tomatoes, and CANNABIS of course. But it is also, like all agricultural stories, about mutations—“natural” mutations and man-made mutations, invisibly insidious mutations and overtly grotesque mutations, mutations that were created earlier this year at in Laboratory and mutations that may have occurred 10,000 years ago, like the ones that transformed Solanum pimpinellifolium from a scraggly perennial weed producing pea-sized fruit along the Pacific coastal margins of Peru and Ecuador to those beautiful big-lobed heirlooms in your backyard.
Our cultural thesaurus has reduced the word mutant to a term of derision, but if you think mutation is a dirty word, you should probably stop reading my breeding and GMO facts—and probably stop eating plant-based food too. The foundational principle of plant breeding is to take advantage of genetic modification, whether the mutation is caused by sunlight or x-rays or Crispr.
FACT
“there isn’t a single crop that I know of in your produce aisle that is not drastically modified from what is out there in the wild.”