When I made my opinions regarding Fox Farms being too hot, I mentioned that because for the novice grower often has problems with it. With an experienced grower it can be great but for new growers who like to pour the gravy on top of an all-you-can-eat buffet, it can be a recipe for heartburn. Undesirable traits can easily be bred into the genetics... look at the current state of growing and the shape and type of plants. For the most part, the stuff being grown today bears little resemblance to the original breeds. It's like tomatoes. The public loves it's big, juicy, and mostly tasteless tomatoes because that is the way they were bred. Thicker skins to resist bruising, faster production, self pollinating... all this stuff is new. The same is going to happen to Cannabis, sooner or later.
These are just my opinions and observations. It hasn't taken over the world yet, but history repeats itself. There used to be a zillion strains of Bananas...now there is 1 main one that is under siege by a fungus. I have never personally had any hermie plants, or known anyone that has the problem, although that doesn't mean that it isn't possible. I hear breders themselves saying about certain descendants of some strains that are prone to herms, but the strain is popular and is being tried to breed it out. The trait is still there, however, buried somewhere in the genetics. Everyone has their opinions and ways of looking a things. I do my best to try to provide help and assistance when I can... which is what is great about this site. Everyone helps out even if we have different methods and preferences. If I have offended anyone with my rants, please let me know. I certainly don't intend to hurt or diss anyone. Sometimes I have a strange way of wording things that can be misunderstood.
you make a real good point there bro,the breeders are doing this,they arent working the lines at all,i dont think there really is a landrace anymore ,at least from or hay day,im convinced and probally wrong as hell ,but i believe all the sour and bad hermi stuff started right about the time that folk started using pure silver to pollinate,never done it never will,i think the actual pollinating with qtips and dust in general some how has a effect also,its not natuaral way of pollination,again just my opinion,i got 3 strains ive made 2 have never been released to not even friends as of yet,i havent had time or the place to really work them,i have grown them 3 times and there looking like what i call my standards,im looking for any damn one can grow them type strains,hell all give a buzz but i lean more to a speedy high and numbing relife of sore bodies hahahah,i think that folk breed just to rush out and get to the band wagon of money for seeds ,hell look how much the damn things has gone up in last 10 yrs,crazy high,no work at all in the lines,even when you get testers the only time you hear from them is when they have problems and again that goes back to the over under water and ferts,some folk just cant leave them alone,i dont believe there is such a bad thing in mediums at all,comes down to the nut that pouring in the gravy just like you said,im not defending any bag soil or soil made at all ,ive used all but the hydro and aqua man is trying to convince me too hahaahh,i do have a 33 gal trash can outside with a watermelon plant going in it,not expecting much but had to know if you dig,discovery just like chris hahaah,i will bash the shit out of the soil i make cause i made it and not happy with it,might fit the bill for veggie on the table,but im looking at more of handling my envoirment with extreme heats,i believe that can be achieved look at places in the desert,in iraq the only tree which was a scraggly ole bush,but it was my tree,if that tree could live in the desert there water there you know,i wont a envoriment like that and plants to stand up in it,no you got me all wrong ,im not defending any of them ,from 10 or more years i been hearing same as you about it,i would just like visual proof of it one day all i was saying,fox and many others sell tons of soil,soil is living ,dirt is not,there is no way they good incorparate dirt into there mix,if they could there would be giant holes on both east and west coast were they make it,hahahah,hell maybe that were the pacific and alantic ocean come from ,hahah i dont know ,all of them are made from peat moss base,i really see no way at all that they could sterilize every bag of soil were it doesnt have bugs,even if they could when it goes to the seller it is sit outside,think about that ,fresh mix soil with all kind of attractants,ya buddy knats,but what puzzles me most is the lack of ants in the bags,why?,im thinking chemical structures,if that could be replicated you got a whole card to use for great wealth hahaah