Backyard_Boogie
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Hi Guys,
So I was thinking earlier and I had a pretty interesting thought maybe someone can shed some light on it. Within the last 20 years there has been a massive breeding movement with auto-flowers and in this relatively short amount of time we now have many high THC cultivars that can finish lightning fast. All that concentrated selective breeding allowed for the manipulation of the genetics in order to meet the desired wants of the breeders. So my idea is this... Since we can manipulate and select for speed and potency what would happen if professional breeders started selecting for perennial traits instead? Think about it. One day decades or centuries from now maybe they can selectively breed so that the plants can continue to grow and produce new fresh flowers for many yearly cycles over and over again.
I know some people here are gonna talk about re-vegging and I'm aware of that. I have re-vegged many strains but Im not talking about that Im theorizing about a strain that has been purposefully bred to act more like a stone fruit tree. You plant it in the ground once then it gets bigger and bigger year after year. eventually turning into a giant tree that makes flowers. You can chop the flowers off and then next annual cycle it just makes more flowers. Imagine planting a tree, an OG for example. 30 years later you are still pulling buds off the tree but its 25ft high by then. Like a legit tree that you can carve your initials into then bring your grandkids back to see decades later. I know this is wildly imaginative and definitely doesn't exist now but do you guys think it can be done if breeders focused on it? If we can turn a wolf into a poodle why cant we do this? Imagine what this could do for the commercial industry? Instead of having to chop the trees down and replant every season it would make it so much easier. They could just roll through the orchard on one of those portable cherry pickers on wheels then the workers can chop and harvest the nugs off the trees from up in the air. Leave em in the ground and do it all over again once they bloom again. What do you guys think? Possible or is it an unobtainable dream?
So I was thinking earlier and I had a pretty interesting thought maybe someone can shed some light on it. Within the last 20 years there has been a massive breeding movement with auto-flowers and in this relatively short amount of time we now have many high THC cultivars that can finish lightning fast. All that concentrated selective breeding allowed for the manipulation of the genetics in order to meet the desired wants of the breeders. So my idea is this... Since we can manipulate and select for speed and potency what would happen if professional breeders started selecting for perennial traits instead? Think about it. One day decades or centuries from now maybe they can selectively breed so that the plants can continue to grow and produce new fresh flowers for many yearly cycles over and over again.
I know some people here are gonna talk about re-vegging and I'm aware of that. I have re-vegged many strains but Im not talking about that Im theorizing about a strain that has been purposefully bred to act more like a stone fruit tree. You plant it in the ground once then it gets bigger and bigger year after year. eventually turning into a giant tree that makes flowers. You can chop the flowers off and then next annual cycle it just makes more flowers. Imagine planting a tree, an OG for example. 30 years later you are still pulling buds off the tree but its 25ft high by then. Like a legit tree that you can carve your initials into then bring your grandkids back to see decades later. I know this is wildly imaginative and definitely doesn't exist now but do you guys think it can be done if breeders focused on it? If we can turn a wolf into a poodle why cant we do this? Imagine what this could do for the commercial industry? Instead of having to chop the trees down and replant every season it would make it so much easier. They could just roll through the orchard on one of those portable cherry pickers on wheels then the workers can chop and harvest the nugs off the trees from up in the air. Leave em in the ground and do it all over again once they bloom again. What do you guys think? Possible or is it an unobtainable dream?