The issue with many of these new strains is that many of them are crosses of diverse landrace strains, and thus are inherently unstable. Take White Widow for example. It is a famous strain that is a cross between A Brazilian landrace and a South India ganja landrace (or landrace cross there, it is hard to wade through the legendary heirloom strain genetics, like GDP, WW and OG anything). Personally the strongest weed I have ever smoked, including all these new strains, was ganja from South India back in 1975. That same year I smoked my second strongest weed ever, loose top sativa from Guerrero, Mexico. Actually, the later led to the former. I had bought a half pound of the Guerreran and sold lids, or rather, they sold themselves. I gave my future GF at that time (she was from Hawaii) a joint and she smoked half of it and was seat locked in her car for 2 hours before she could drive anywhere. She 'blamed' me for not warning her, so she set about finding the strongest weed in the world, which she somehow did. She made me smoke a pinner before selling me an oz. of the stuff. That was Ganja from South India. I never smoked any before or since. I sold grams and was sold out in 2 days. People were knocking on my door asking to buy that stuff 3 months later. It was legendary. I never smoked Brazilian, it was just not available in California. But I have heard a lot about it, and I am growing WW as a result. But... such crosses are typically very unstable, and while there have been many later crosses of white widow and other strains, few (if any) are as legendary. This is again due to the genetics of Cannabis, and its inherent tendency to vary greatly. I was reading about hemp growing in Kentucky in the 18th century and they were complaining that hemp fiber quality degrades rapidly in successive years if you do not source your seeds from the best plants and stay on top of them.
As for my landrace collection, I have a thread going here on 420 where I am slowly listing my seed collection. I also list where the seeds came from and why and how I have stored them for so many years (frozen). I am still not sure how I will wind up getting them into the marketplace. I may grow self-pollinated F1 seeds and go through an outfit in Austria that you ship seeds to and they store them and do the distribution and shipping. I am not sure how I would get the Euros back into the states. Maybe just fly to Amsterdam and spend them there? I also do not know about Austrian income tax laws. Getting a rec grow license here in Oregon is insanely complicated and requires a lot of work and money. I may go that route, or grow medical and seed them out. Anyway, the thread is here:
Original source seeds from the 70's - Yes I have some
As for my landrace collection, I have a thread going here on 420 where I am slowly listing my seed collection. I also list where the seeds came from and why and how I have stored them for so many years (frozen). I am still not sure how I will wind up getting them into the marketplace. I may grow self-pollinated F1 seeds and go through an outfit in Austria that you ship seeds to and they store them and do the distribution and shipping. I am not sure how I would get the Euros back into the states. Maybe just fly to Amsterdam and spend them there? I also do not know about Austrian income tax laws. Getting a rec grow license here in Oregon is insanely complicated and requires a lot of work and money. I may go that route, or grow medical and seed them out. Anyway, the thread is here:
Original source seeds from the 70's - Yes I have some
