Quote Originally Posted by krustythfreakinclown
Pulse, you're killing me with cyptic statements like that. Please elaborate.
More specifically, "Why?"

Why would a strain with such nearly-legendary potency such as Trainwreck be doomed, in your opinion, to face extinction in 20-30 years?

I can understand this facing land races such as shitty Mexican Schwag, or Ruderalis, but why some good weed like Trainwreck?

Saying that sounds like any high-potency weed is due for extinction. But, I don't get why you would say something like that. I mean, when was the last time you heard of a good quality, popular product just vanishing?

Help me understand what your underlying thought was, please.

Thanks!
Keeping a pure strain going indefinitely is tougher than you'd imagine. From what I understand, you can only clone a plant a certain number of time before it starts to have problems like turning into a hermaphrodite. That means to keep a strain going someone needs to devote a considerable # of plants to seed production and these plants must be isolated to prevent any potentail cross polinization with another strain.

Sure it can be done but the questions is will someone do it. Look at how many strains are offered by a typical seed company. They'll have new strains coming all the time. AFter a while people will want to start trying those new strains instead of somehting old, like Trainwreck. Eventually it stops being profitable for a seed company to keep a strain going so the focus on the new ones. Thus, the old strain is gone.