<span class="link_user">@The_Wanderer</span>, I agree that the commercial US market is clustered and strain names often don’t reflect chemistry. That’s supported by the data.
But “few dominant chemotypes” does not mean “everything is the same.”
Also, lumping craft breeders like Solfire Gardens together with mass-market production is inaccurate. Small-batch breeding, real phenohunting, and trait selection are a different game than industrial output.
Limited base chemistry ≠identical products. Just like different foods can all be “meat” and still clearly not be the same.
<span class="link_user">@The_Wanderer</span>, I agree that the commercial US market is clustered and strain names often don’t reflect chemistry. That’s supported by the data.
But “few dominant chemotypes” does not mean “everything is the same.”
Also, lumping craft breeders like Solfire Gardens together with mass-market production is inaccurate. Small-batch breeding, real phenohunting, and trait selection are a different game than industrial output.
Limited base chemistry ≠identical products. Just like different foods can all be “meat” and still clearly not be the same.
<span class="link_user">@TyRun</span>, its just a new label on the same old overblended stuff. A few years ago we finally got the science on commercial cannabis. Have you heard about the phytochemical diversity of commercial cannabis in the united states?
I think you need to understand it because that market can't offer you new cultivars, or unique cultivars. From a chemistry first perspective they can offer you three types of weed, based on their chemical content. What they can do is give you the same three terpene profiles under new names and descriptions. Sorry to say that is all it is. If you need help understanding the study, these will help. https://youtu.be/odDxvjCPGto?si=pLleeIAwxfMFGIa1
https://youtu.be/KnBkWQr1rtc?si=ymtv-eOqC5ZlCUOX
Its better you find out now than continue to be made a fool of by them. You deserve to know.