Reality vs Online Presentation

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A few years ago I met a professional photographer who shot marijuana for advertisements. They start with a perfect looking bud. Sometime bud is grown specifically for it's color. They will mess with the nutrients, temperature and other conditions to force the plant to produce the desired colors. Then add in some professional lighting and time in Photoshop turning up the colors that are currently popular. So, these days most professional photos will be more frosty or purple than occurs naturally.

Substrate, nutrition, experience, temps. All play a roll. Plus in some cases I think they grow just a few colas on a strong plant to get a big fat bud on picture. Cor morphing happens late flowering. Especially if a proper flush and fade time is given.

The photos of breeds cannabis strains are grown by professionals and manicured to look pretty. I've grown strains that look something like what the breed had on their webpage. It also depends who the breeder is. If you using seeds from a source that does not have a good reputation, they seeds will not look like the package image. I've seen this done before, places will use other companies images. and pass it off as their own. I uploaded a photo to dinafems web page on a review. That image was later seen on a shady seed stores page. I asked them to remove it and they did. A few other things that may cause them not to look like the plant you ordered is phernotypes. each seed is a child to the mother and as such all have their own characteristics like kids in a family. When a breeder locks in their genetics the range of phenotypes goes down, a more stable product is the result. Not all breeders are equal and some downright suck. Most are not breeders and just resellers of bulk buys of seeds they contract out to breeders. There is a large range of quality in that field of work from shit to great. Other factors can also include your growing setup and environment, but they all tend to be something like the listed product. I don't know where you got your seeds from as the diary says custom, but let us know and maybe that will help shed light on somethings. End of the day though, if you like it, its a win. No matter what. Best of Luck and Happy Growing!

This is a common misconception among new growers that the photos are gonna look like what you’ll get. There are phenotype expressions that will be different from plant to plant even with legit breeders. Then there’s not legit breeders that just slap up a stock photo of blue dream and use questionable breeding practices to get the seeds you got.. When it is a legit breeder - they are showing pictures of the very best possible result from commercial like facilities.. so homegrowing will give a bit different results but at the end of the day if it smokes like you want that’s all that should matter.

Hello. When the seed breeders test their seeds they get the best plant and take pictures of that one. They might test hundreds of seeds. They also have to test THC test them as well. That's how they get their THC % numbers. There will be only one or two plants out of 500 that look like the pictures from the breeders or have as high THC% content as they say. That is why we grow more than one seed of a strain. Chuck.

@orangemuddi could be one of many reasons such as yours not being the real blue dream or maybe it is but your plant is displaying distinctly different phenotype characteristics ?? for me the proof is in the final product and if you are happy with that then I wouldnt worry too much about Names of strains