This is precisely why I’m a fanboy of OregonCBD: They took the risk, put in the time, built out the infrastructure and their products are reliable and stable as a result.
The clowns pretending they “found a strain in a 10 pack” or got their plant to produce zero thc by growing hydro (
) will absolutely not produce a reliable, stable seed. When you understand the extreme cost and time involved to do this correctly, and compare to the ridiculous effort and investment of @Autumn_Ridge_Hemp etc, etc. you better understand how to buy reliable genetics vs getting ripped off.
“In 3 years, we have spent over $7m on analytical testing alone to get to where we are at today, which is being able to find the right chemotype 1.3% of the time. Plants can’t be accurately tested until they are sexually mature, so these projects take up an awful lot of space and resources–and we end up cutting down 98.7% of the initial plants, usually when they are 3-4 feet tall. Of the plants with a proper chemotype, roughly 1 in 20 are making the cut as potential mothers for seed production (2021 release, pending field trials of progeny this summer). In other words, we have valuable greenhouse space devoted to testing plants, of which only ONE in 1700 will make the cut (to say nothing of the 3 years and thousands of plants it took to even make it this far)–it takes 12k sq. ft. of space and 2 months to find that one plant. When we are done with this project, farmers will be able to plant a seed and have a guarantee that trimmed flowers will be roughly equal parts CBD / CBDV and federally compliant in time for harsh, universal USDA rules in 2021. I do not know of any other company devoting resources or energy to the breeding process like we do. Miracle plants tend to fall from the sky at other companies 6 months after we release lines–weird, isn’t it?”