Awesome job man.
As for your question about why doesnt your god bud look like theirs, this strain, along with countless others on the market nowadays are only F1's.
Meaning, the strain was only bred once, not back crossed or anything else .
Breeding like this seems to be the norm lately.
When backcrossing and continuing breeding, you begin to create further generations, like F2, F3 ect.
Going further into generations makes a strain more stable , meanwhile when strains are only bred to F1, it causes a shitload of different phenotypic expressions.
Which means instead of all the plants looking similar, each seed you grow could look completely different than the other, because it posesses traits not only from the mother and father they were bred from, but also traits from the grandmother, grandfather, great great grand..... im sure you get what i mean without going further on passed traits lol.
But yeah breeders nowadays are lazy and you rarely see anything past F1(first generation) or F2(second generation) which causes the plant to throw different a ton of phenotypes (each phenotype posesss/displays its own unique traits)
Hope that helped, keep up the great work man.
Thinking about grabbing some God bud seeds which is why i checked this diary out, hows the smell and taste?
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