The Hype is killing our plants

[OldFucker]

Please move this post if in wrong forum.

Most who know me absolutely know I'm not greedy or chasing stardom around. I fall short to on projects now mainly because my body is shutting down but I will not take a short cut for Hype. I have nothing against anyone for trying to make a good living. But there is one guy that I cannot stand and that is the guy who tried to tell me after paying 300 Fucking dollars for a pack of seeds that it was lame that I made F2s. Those are one type of weasel that unfortunately is in the cannabis community. So have a nice read and think about it.

Listen up, because we are watching the destruction of a legacy right in front of our eyes.
I’ve had my hands in the dirt with this plant since 1982, and what the corporate "hype" machine is doing to cannabis today is a tragedy. We are trading decades of careful, foundational genetic preservation for flashy mylar bags and stolen cartoon characters.
The relentless chase for inflated THC numbers and candy-flavored dessert strains is bottlenecking the gene pool into oblivion. We are actively breeding out the legendary, structurally sound lines—the real Skunks and Northern Lights that actually had backbone, stability, and deep, medicinal terpene profiles. In their place? A flooded market of weak, unstable poly-hybrids that will herm out at the slightest stress, all just to sell a shiny new label.
Corporate cannabis is treating a sacred, holistic medicine like fast fashion. It is mechanically trimmed, speed-cured, and sold to you as a genetically fragile shadow of what this plant was meant to be.
If we don't wake up, demand true genetic stability, and stop throwing our money at the hype, we are going to lose the real cannabis entirely.
Respect the plant. Support the legacy breeders who are putting in the actual work. Demand better.
True Grit Genetics
LouieBones
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[compostmike]

This is the part that bothers me too, the market started selecting for the label before the plant. If the winning traits are bag appeal, a candy name, and a test number, then root vigor, stress tolerance, structure, and a real terpene range get pushed to the side. You can see it in the room when a line looks amazing in a photo but sulks if the root zone gets a little wet, or throws nanners from a normal environmental bump.

Making F2s isn't lame either. That's where you actually get to see what is in the line. Some of it will be junk, sure, but that segregation is how you find the strong individuals and keep something alive instead of just buying the next renamed polyhybrid. People act like preservation is stealing now, while the same crowd will slap a cartoon bag on somebody else's work and call it innovation.

I don't think every modern cross is trash, there are still breeders doing real selection. But the plant needs more people selecting for health and stability again, not just frost under LEDs and a loud name on a pack.

 

[Slutbutt]