Genetics of seed lots for large-scale growing?

First my own experience: I obtained a handful of promising Afghan seeds and planted about a dozen. Ten grew old enough to sex. It was exactly 50/50 male-female. Of the five females, all grew great-looking buds, but the potency varied from practically nothing (two of the five females) to super strong (one female).

I smoked some of the bud these seeds came from, and it was definitely at the high end of the potency spectrum. And yet, some of these seeds produced utterly worthless adult plants.

So the question I’ve asked ever since is, how would a farmer in Afghanistan or Pakistan know if he was growing the good stuff or the garbage? Did he just have to accept the fact that he was producing both? I don’t think I’d want to be a buyer unless I knew the genetics would be a bit more predictable.

Apologies if this subject has been raised too many times already. I’m a newb but I’ve been pondering this riddle for decades, literally.

sounds weird, if the strain is the same it should produce the same, did you give them the exact same conditions ?

did they begin to set flowers at the same time ? did you harvest and dry/cure em the same ?

or was the two fist jars not so good but the 3th after curing 3 weeks was best ?

how did the thriccomes look on the different plants ?

Slipon: They all got exactly the same treatment. Also I used a couple of my pothead neighbors to help judge potency, so it wasn't just me.

Get a higschool biology book and read the chapter on Mendelian Genetics and there in you will find the answer to your question.

echlectica said:

Get a higschool biology book and read the chapter on Mendelian Genetics and there in you will find the answer to your question.

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where was the source of the genetics though?

i could see this happening if you bought some seeds in afghan or some bagseed from some bud from afgan.(because this means the father could be anything from hemp to ruderalis) but a breeders genetics, like from a website, should be refined enough to have a general population with drug quality ganja and very few low potency family members.

Yeah is this some Afghan seeds some grunt smuggled back from Afghanistan? If so what part of the country? Up high in altitude or low in the valley? Was it growing wild or being cultivated by an Afghan living in mud hut? There's a lot more to "Afghan" than meets the eye...