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10-11-2009, 12:31 PM #5
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Using sandpaper to scuff seed for germination
And when that does not work... did that weeks ago... Even used many other techniques I got from this forum.
I liked the cliche of Imitate Nature, it works most of the time, but what I have here are seeds that would would die in Natural Selection, so imitating nature means no positive results. I have seeds with shells that are too thick to survive naturally and I have to use an Advanced technique to help them along. This is actually common because the Strains being dealt with were selected for such traits as High Yield, Low Hieght, Low Odor, Pleasing flavor, Potency ...etc and not selected to survive naturally. This also goes for foods, and since I am an avid Gardener allow me to bring in another example I can explain much better.
Corn, ever try to grow Corn Naturally? You can't. Corn as we eat it could never surive Naturally, When an ear of Corn hits the ground you have about 200(?) Kernals all in the same spot that will Germinate at the same location. They would end up killing themselves all off before they ever made it large enough to Reproduce, and even if they did grow large enough to Reproduce they would not be spaced out properly to Pollenate. This is why corn is grown in rows spaced out at specific distances(uncommon in nature)... Corn that grows Naturally is a grass, and it has about 5 kernals, the Mayans selectively bred and developed it to where it can not survive unless tended to in a spefic way. (Ok maybe it was the Incas or Aztecs, its not like I kept track of the WHO in this story not relevent to my line of work)
The Cannabis we grow now are from seeds of Selective Breeding, Natural traits are bred out as Selective traits are bred in. Other Great Comparisons are Dogs... I have never bred dogs to go into details, but I can tell you that a Pit Bull who was bred to fight can not survive on its own because it lacks other skills to hunt or Scavenge.
Ok, I bored everyone with my long winded Trivia... Bottom Line, imitating Nature does not always work when you are using Selective Breeding Genetics... works great on a land race strain though.
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