Smokin' Inbreed Weed ?

[Torched]

A thought occurred to me and I'm wondering other peoples thoughts, also if there is anything written on the subject out there in the intertubes.

When someone is doing IBL strains: what keeps these inbreeds from becoming genetic monsters as would happen with an animal you were breeding in that fashion for as long as weeds been breed?

When you add on the ability to cut out the genetic linage of the males by feminizing and then breeding those "broken" genetic histories. Are we damaging the plant we love at a genetic level?

Is High THC or anything we breed for, simply a Mutant gene expressions? And then we perpetuate it with our breeding techniques?

Is it possible that the reason we can't replicate the weed from the 70's is that we've pissed in the gene pool for far too many generations?

I guess once it's all legal and we can get a proper Genome survey done and know for sure the amount of information loss. Has any research been done on this subject?

 

[Eekman]

There are many points that you have that are valid. THe one that sticks out to me is the absence of the landrace strains of the 70's. I don't think you can really get them back, they bred out the herme traits and improved yeilds with the skunk. Also improved potency has been such a desired trait, it had also led to less CBD's in the medicine. Some are around but most are gone.

I remember a thread where this guy popped some bagseed he had from the 80's, thirty year old seeds, and he said he had like 12 out of a hundred crack. Wouldn't that be something to be the holder of the only landrace columbian gold left?

my two

Peace

Eek

 

[Torched]

I wonder if we are also messin with MJs metabolic functions as we domesticate it for indoor environments. Like those domesticated Russian foxes that turned grey as became domesticated because their metabolic function changed due to breeding for calm traits rather then aggressive traits.

 

[late]

Pot has a lot of genetic diversity.

But it is a shame to lose the original strains. Someone should start a seed bank dedicated to finding and preserving
strains of pot. When you do this, it's always surprising how much gets found, once you have someone looking,
and a place to keep them.

 

[Torched]

http://www.dailycamera.com/marijuana/ci_25093731/cu-boulder-prof-aims-get-inside-cannabis-genome

Looks like answers might not be that far off...Thanks CO