When @Demontrich started selling other people’s cuts for cheap, those people complained that he was devaluing the cuts. He was making their scarce cuts common.
I never said anything about a bling factor because those cuts are ultimately easy to produce and delicate as fuck. There is nothing special about a 10k cut.
Anyone who will tell you otherwise is getting cleaned out by the market right now
They are great for lazy growers who just want to grow fire to sell. Makes for great marketing. Probably find better gene characteristics piping a large amount of seeds.
The only plants worth that money in my opinion are the few amazing land strains. Kush mountains, cape of Africa, middle america, etc.
Back in the day there weren’t Instagram breeders slanging seeds, genetics got popular by winning a cup, or valuable from that, now they get counterfeit.
Nothing adds value except if everyone can agree that it’s worth it and they want it but can’t aquire it, that’s what sets the value… just like why is bitcoin valuable, or the dollar.
They have enough cash flow to be dangerous with their decisions. They get a couple good harvests or a couple ok years and then “if I got the beleaf this or cookies that or the jungleboys exclusive cut of something then I could really make it”.
When somebody like that spends 10k on the cut and grows a batch of 5,000# it’s not exotic anymore.
Really they could just grow their own genetics better, rename the flowers and retire somewhere nice
The reason people pay any real money for cuts is TIME which leads to money. If popping your own seeds and doing a good sized hunt for keepers expect to drop a lot of money on seeds and spend a lot of valuable time and space hunting said seeds. Does it herm, is it good enough, having to take clones off of all the potential cuts before flipping. When buying exotic cuts. If your sources are trusted you can save 6 months to a year having to hunt/test/evaluate the gear. 4 figure clones you know what your getting, from who, you know they perform, are expected to yield, and what it’s lineage is.
As soon as you get your first clone, you can turn it to a m and have it in production instantly.
The reason you pay above say $500 a cut or so is typically it checks most boxes. Exotic look, loud smell, ok enough yield.
The reason you pay for a $5-10k cut -is it should check all boxes. Exotic, super loud often times unique, great yielding /fast enough finishing, and typically a 2 year lead on your potential competition with the cut. 10k cut should have name brand appeal not be a no name breeder. Think connected, fiya , deos unicorn cuts that are known but you can’t really find. In a hyper competitive market a 10k cut, is the difference between your packs getting 25 percent less, not moving as fast. A 10k cut is a $100 cut 2 years from now. However you may not be guaranteed to actually find the real cut for $100. The 10 k cuts take on a life of their own. Copy cats /s1s/ to where it can be difficult to find the real deal. Eventually the name becomes so watered down by garbage growers, and copy cat genetics that it almost becomes a parody.
If I had to do it all over again id recommend it In this order.
Exotic cuts - worth the money if your plugged in
Bag seed of fire-usually feminized best genetics I’ve ever found from seed
Seeds from breeders-most expensive route imo. To much noise for not enough music. Not worth the time, 0 genetics in the stable from this route that I’ve hunted.
Also. Find a trusted crew to throw in on said 10k cut. A 10k cut is much more palatable with a month delay and saving 9k
