The situation in europe is different, up to a while ago 90% of the commercial weed thas was grown was either haze, skunk or northern lights, or any combination of those, erm tho pure haze never was grown commercially (would be insane) :P
btw skunk 1 is a stabilised hybrid of 25%, Afghaan, 25% Acapulco Gold and 50% Columbian Gold, haze is a strain I think from combining some jamaician sativa's with others, and well nl needs no introduction
the last few years (as far as I know) however you see varieties from other parts of the world pop up more, and them ofc bringing more crosses with them (thinking about "blue" varieties, kushes, ruderalis hydrids).
problem is however that with the average coffeeshop customers being not too bright, wel informed, and knowledgable it happens a lot that you get "scammed" eg. some shop I've seen put nycd on the haze menu (haze is generally 20-30% more expensive), sell different hazes as a5 (which still is extremely popular), and commercial growers apparently even tend to overfertilize with bat guano as supposledly that tastes like haze, and thus with overfertilizing the aroma and taste get more pungent (but is it healthy?)
as you guys don't have much to do with that I'll move on to the next problem that does affect you: everyone and their grandma seems to be opening "seedbanks" with often abyssmal results.....strains with a write up that makes you drool, but in reality you buy 20 seeds, only 10 germinate, 6 totally different phenos and hermaphrodites all over
I'm just calling myself lucky cause I have been spared these experiences (tho I seem to be an exception), I was "smart" enough to start growing with Dutchpassion seeds, a long established seedbank with several very stabilised strains, and then I came across 2 hobby breeders with nice genetics, a dutch fella called sannie and ofc the infamous piefke!!! (the g13-haze ROCKSSSSSS)
late night rant over :P (don't shoot me I'm too sober for this time of day to be coherent)
sly1
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