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It can be Dutch Passion or any other of the upper echelon of breeders but once at that level of genetics the entire line on average will be better than that of other breeders.
Sometimes the difference between breeders is not so much their stable of genetics to work with or their know-how but that one will only market their home runs and triples but won’t market their doubles or singles. Then other breeders will market them all, even their bunts.
Green House Seeds seems to take the shotgun approach to marketing, just blast away filling the air with numerous new strains and market them well and price them appealing enough and enough will sell to more than make it work it for Green House Seeds. There are some values in the line, but there are some where there are much better options for something similar, or of a knockoff that each made, that are as reasonably priced that should be picked.
The problem is you really only have four options as to how to decide which of the Green House Seeds strains are ones that are values. You can take the opinion of a stranger who might have a very different ‘scale’ of good or bad or impressive or not than you. You can rely on breeder information. You can rely on a combination of the first two, if you are lucky enough to have access to many grow reports and smoke reports for whatever you might grow. Or you can wade through the line trying anything that has the general genetic combination you prefer and see for yourself. Not a popular option given the size of the line.
Sometime the difference in being very pleased or being dissatisfied with your final results can be an accidental/unknown error or stroke of luck that is either conditional due to your setup or just something the breeder information did not go into or even just a combination of taste and timing.
When I tried Green House Seeds Lemon Skunk the growth was between great and too damn much of it, so in that way I could not have been happier. Shortly before harvesting, in roughly the last 6 or maybe 9 days, I nipped a test sample bud and did a quick dry, but not involving heat so as to not degrade the THC. I thought it was good but I figured if it did not really improve some in what little time it had left I could not understand how it was a Cup winner.
I dried it and cured it as I normally do with something I never grew before where I may know if something is beneficial or not and I might do different. Basically that is drying in as close to optimal conditions as I can maintain and then when time give a 2-week cure and give it a try.
It might have been my imagination but when I sampled the cured bud it almost seemed less potent/impressive than the early sample bud, when I know it was not ready for harvest. It was ok but I thought there is no way that stuff deserved to win a Cup.
When I grew it, it was part of a mixed run and while I did try a few more buds over the next few days, soon I ignored the Lemon Skunk and enjoyed the others that had by then also cured. As those strains began to dwindle I figured I should slip in some Lemon Skunk now and then. I figured that rather than get stuck with nothing but it at the end I would mix things up some and it would help make the ‘better’ strains last longer.
I really do not know how many months the Lemon Skunk sat in its jars but what came out of those jars was as different as day and night to the early sample bud and the post-2-week cure buds. It was not a case where I had built up a tolerance to the others and this was different so it just seemed better. It was way better. Then I understood how it could win a Cup.
I wished I had sampled it on a bit of a schedule so I would know if it needed two weeks and just one day longer curing or two months and 27 days longer curing or what. All I can say is that at least in my case/experience a much longer cure made all the difference in the world. Had I not happened into a longer cure I would never have grown Lemon Skunk again, which I have and I likely will again one day.
Maybe in some cases what really makes a good breeder is our skill, or as in my case, luck, that causes us to find a way to tickle that little extra out of some strain that some others miss because they always follow a rigid routine for curing and seldom if ever deviate from it.
The easiest thing for someone to do would be when their normal length curing time ends, if they normally stick to one, and like some they remove their buds from their jars or containers and repackage them in some way, if instead more of them left their harvest in jars/curing containers in curing conditions for as long as possible, to dip into the strain or different strains when needed but as in bud or two at a time or if they had a few small jars take a jar of one kind and then the next etc. depending on number of strains, but leave as much as possible in prime curing conditions for as long as possible.
Not all strains will see much, if any, improvement with an extended curing. It is all a matter of how long it takes the THC created by that particular genetic combination to become fully psychoactive. But if you try it with as many strains as you can, now and then like a great year for wine or that MILF down the street, you find one that just keeps getting better and better with age until you can hardly believe it is the same strain and you question if you mixed up a jar or something. It becomes far more than you expected from it after your earlier samples and possibly even in comparison to good things you had heard about it before purchasing it and what all you had hopes for.
