Stupidity Watch 1

Marijuana Does Not Lose Potency By Cloning By Robert Korczynski I was watching Anton Petrov on YouTube explain how mammalian cloning starts to fail after 25 generations and cannot make it past 58 because the cells must be manipulated in a lab to reset them which introduces unavoidable mutations. He noted that plants (and there was a picture of a Russet potato) can be cloned indefinitely. Despite saying this, a clear pothead in the comments still claimed that "a certain plant" loses potency and flavor every time it is cloned. The idea that cloning marijuana repeatedly leads to a loss of potency is a myth that originated with viral infections in commercial grows, and has almost nothing to do with home grows. Mammalian cloning starts to fail after the 25th generation and hits a hard wall by the 58th because you have to force a specialized cell back into a stem cell, which introduces non-functional mutations over time. Plants are different, they grow roots from cuttings without f...

     The world of cannabis has really expanded in the last decade or so. For over a century the only active ingredient in U.S. marijuana was THC, which we would now call "Sativa" strains (even though Cannabis Sativa is the proper name for hemp). Then OG Kush arrived in the late 1980s with the dominant terpene being Myrcene, and within 10 years it was bred into almost all U.S. strains creating "Indica dominant" hybrids that made up 90% of the U.S. market by 1999.      Around 2010 what has come to be known as the Cookie Collective in San Francisco California bred South African Durban Poison with around 1% THCV into OG Kush and another strain that they had apparently failed to track the lineage of, and created the strain called Girl Scout Cookies, now called just GSC for obvious reasons. While Durban Poison had 1% THCV, GSC had 2% - 4% THCV, indicating that it was the main active ingredient that they were breeding for.      T...

     Cannabis evolved in Asia where it was first domesticated as hemp for both seed and cloth.  Cannabis Ruderalis comes from Siberia near the Arctic circle where the summer growing season is determined by a lack of ice, not by any change in the daylight, so Ruderalis is the origin of autoflower plants that ignore the light cycle and go from seed to flower within 3 to 4 months.      Ruderalis means rudimentary or primordial, and it is assumed to be the original cannabis plant, which humans then took and through selective breeding turned into two kinds of hemp plants, one with large seeds for food, and another with long internodes for fiber.  The ancestor of all cannabis plants was a cousin of Ruderalis from Central Asia that would have had no need for autoflower.  Since cannabis has no pollinator and its pollen drifts up to two miles with the wind, over thousands of years all of the original wild Ruderalis plants in Asia have become...