Sadly, some folk out there will pokes holes in your research.
Even more sadly, some of these people claim the professional title of "breeder" but doubt the research method because they don't have a college-level understanding of genetics.
I have no intention of naming any names, but folks associated with some bigger seed companies have contacted me asking how the test can be trusted if we can't verify the original sources (ie how do we know that our 'Tahoe' sample is really Tahoe).
The simple answer is that it doesn't matter what it's called - it matters what the genotype is. We will find a finite number of genotypes (my gut instinct says less than 5 across the 20 cuts, but even if there are 20 distinct, it doesn't matter), and whatever you called the strain before you submitted it, at the end, it's gonna either be Genotype A, B, C, D, or E - or if it's unique, it's genotype F, congratulations.
The other piece is that we're submitting dried flower samples - they'll be collected from reputable sources who can trace their cut, and before they're anonymously labeled with a random number letter combination and sent to the lab (which will also receive an undisclosed number of duplicate samples and dummy submissions to test their accuracy and repeatability), they'll be reviewed/smoked by a panel of 8-12 folks the community thinks are qualified enough to know their shit, and we will keep on our end a list of what everyone identified each sample as before the lab test.
Moat og's are distinct with 3-5 groups as you would say ... I can categorize them already with out dna testing ... What we want to know is how they are related. Maybe add a
Chemdog 91 in the mix just for kicks
Yes - the good news is that SNP analysis will let us trace the relationships very clearly
i would avoid any relation to DEA they will only use any information against you so try make sure any information isnot shared with them !!!
Very excellent point - that actually is a really strong motivator to go with the 2nd (cheaper) lab - they don't have any DEA certification and are a private California-based enterprise that's focused on cannabis [whereas the DEA-certified one is an Illinois-based enterprise that's focused on all sorts of genetics].
I did wanna point out that the DNA analysis we're going to be contracting is a
comparative,
not analytical analysis.
So what the fuck does that mean?
It means that they can say whether two things are the same, or how much they differ, but not what's different (or what's the same) about them, because the individual components are never analyzed or categorized.
From what I've gathered fro, my own research based on what the lab explained in the letter, they basically break the DNA in a repeatable way and look at the pattern it breaks into - and that pattern acts as a "signature" to identify that specific DNA.
Now,
could the lab theoretically do more than I hire them to for their own database? Sure, they could. But they could also just go pick up herb from a dispensary and do that if they wanted to, so I don't feel I'm endangering anything/anyone there.
