Just a regular guy who wakes and bakes like me huh? Maybe back in 08 when you wrote that.
The information presented was excellent and offered a tremendous amount of insight into your breeding process and program. All I see lacking is a dbase and strain archive (A cryo-freeze for older strains would be nice for instance, like the one we keep in the arctic in case the planet dies, but I am sure you have a vacuum sealer). All in all it seems so very well thought out. I wonder how much better you've gotten?
I myself am old school. I still use MHs for flowering and I still love Garlic bud and any type of Indonesian sativa. I like to think I helped Orange bud along when I was younger. (I raised and back crossed an orange flavored skunky sativa with an afghan to get the fast growth of the afghan with the higher yield, taste, overall look, and smell of the sativa using a method not unlike yours).
There was a group of us back then in NY, and we used to all send pics into HT under the moniker Prof. Afghani. Some made it some didn't. But it was the same thing I think; as I became more and more known where I was from I had to run further away. I was in a bagel shop when the two people in front of me were raving about the "great nugs" they got from a local grower with my name. They didn't know me or they would have said hello I am sure. I exited stage right, closed down shop and started looking for a new place to live. But then I was afraid of jail time, green merchant was still fresh on everyone's minds and there were no legal places for pot outside of A-dam back then and the 2 years I spent there weren't very productive.
So I do understand people being impressed with what you have accomplished. And I understand your need to express that you are another talented horticulturist (Agriculturalist as well) but that doesn't make you god. Or does it? Before my time was over in the last state I lived in (I was about tired of people chasing me for gardening, its absurd) I gave away all of my genetics. From my original, vacuum sealed chocolate Tai seeds (Ends up growing out to be red haired sativa) to my newest orange crush back cross. I gave them all away. 2 years later I revisited my old stomping ground to find the quality of the local herb had gone up exponentially due to some schmuck giving away top notch genetics for free. Glutted the market and no one could get high prices for their outdoor for the next few years till they all introduced the new genetics in with it. Man, that was more notoriety than I ever wanted, and I am glad no one really figured it out. Except those I gave them to, and I came back to more free bud and praise then I could ever accept. Well maybe not the free bud, I can always accept that.
In all I guess I went from no one to someone to no one all in one fell swoop. It reminded me of my early years training martial arts. I remember when I couldn't punch, and then I learned how to punch. Then I forgot how to punch and it strikes by itself now. I guess what I am saying is I transcended from artless to art to artless again. I try and strive for the same for everything I do. Your mom was right but it was my dad that always told me that and it had a small twist. Not only is anything worth doing worth doing right, but anything worth doing in life always takes hard work and practice. Please, by all means, after sampling your strains, I would like to ask you to keep up the good work. You deserve the praise and recognition you get for sure.
-Cerebral
