Quote Originally Posted by GrowinGreen23
I believe that Genetics and our ability to control or manipulate them has allowed people to come out with purple strains, widows, rhinos, ect. So i mean if i were to find a plant out in the middle of the woods one day for some weird reason i could say that, that particular plant could have the original gentics like the plants from the 50's 60's and some easrly 70's but today just about any plnt you buy or get in bag seed is a genetic alteration, of course it is more potent then what was in the past. GARDEN KNOWM idk what to say to your addition to all of this, i knwo that becaus ethere is more estrogen in the water that this is why us men are loosing our swimmers. Shit sucks!

GG23

I have to disagree with you on this point. The marijuana was relatively the same potency back in the day. I use to grow killer one hit Afghani in the early eighties and the guy had grown that strain for likw 13 years prior to that. Ask the dead heads from the 70's if pot was as strong and they will tell you yes. Has it increased in potency possibly a little....yes, but not to the extent to which people think. Although due to cross, selective etc breeding we have come out with more differnt strains which can increase the ratio of pot plants that have higher THC levels, but it will not hardly affect the potency levels at all. That is something that is genetically determined and until we can due physical gene alterations with selective accuracy we are at the mercy of mother time. And that process does not make drastic changes in just 30 years.

I have stated it before that our current state of MJ growing is flourishing because we have learned and developed better techniques for OPTIMIZING growth, potency and stability potentials. Thats where the pot has changed.