if you want plant mutations..grow out some of DJ's blue lines like f13 an such..there are known mutants lurking in those strains....thats where i would start...peace az

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so your saying over the years babys will come out with tit jobs??...lol..just being a jokester..

I thought of something like this before, I just thought it'd be cool though, I didn't think about it like this. I would think that breeding strains that have more mutations than others would be a nice place to start. and, maybe, if we knew why pot makes THC, we could give it more of a reason to produce THC over alot of generations, and you could get super pot or something.

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this is whats going on thc levels now blow away what was arouns in the eairly eightys when i was in high school genitic engineering

wow, you were genetic engineering in high school in the 80's?


no, it isnt genetic engineering that is responsible for the THC levels, it is simply good breeding practices.

best theory at the moment that i've heard is that THC is a protective response to predatious insects.

sorry you're right thank you for correcting me

In response to evolution having nothing to do with mutations - that's ridiculous. While evolution IS a response to environmental factors, plants don't go "it's hot, I think I'll have a baby that's more heat resistant," but have mutations in their subsequent generations that may or may not be beneficial to the species in the environment. This is a fundamental principle of evolution. The stronger reproduce better and pass their mutated BETTER genes on to more and more generations than the other plants that have offspring with shitty mutations. This is why everything gets better, and nothing gets worse (unless it sucks at adapting, and dies off!).

I don't know anything about weed getting better since the 80's, but every crop since the dawn of the agricultural revolution has gotten "better" due to both adapting to the environment, and selective breeding via human intervention. Great examples would be wheat crops going from piddly harvests to monstrous "mutated" crops in a matter of centuries (and in some cases, decades).

I don't think this endeavor is at all crazy, since all marijuana strains we have today are the result of human intervention. Maybe turning a pot plant from White Widow to something that looks like cabbage is far-fetched, but getting results that you'll be proud of isn't.

I think you're on the right track with using plants like Ducksfoot and dizzy with characteristics close to what you want. Mutagens however... not sure exactly how that would work. You would have to create phenotype altering mutations that would be passed on to future generations. This would require knowing a bit about Marijuana genetics and a vast amount of mutagens. Not sure if this correlates to marijuana, but animals have a fail-safe that most cancers aren't passed on to future generations because of the difference between DNA replication in sex cells compared to normal cells. The cancer stays with the person who got it - not passed on to the kid.

My only advice is don't quit after like 2 years, because getting something you're desiring is going to take a LOT of patience, especially on the scale of 100 plant crops. GOOD LUCK!