The point you choose to miss: Relatively (and I know that word means little to LED growers) we compete with the largest countries with a relatively very small piece of land. That's the result of proper science, not a few delusional self-proclaimed experts on an mj grow forum.
Stupid me ....
Just imagine ,that I've always thought that actually is the result of many things combined ...
But most basically ,that is the result of proper 'propagation' ...
Empires ,kings ,colonies ,spilling plenty of blood,slavery ,stealing of natural resources & genetic material
and many more 'scientific' stuff ....
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For most of the Dutch East Indies history, and that of the VOC before it, Dutch control over their territories was often tenuous, but was expanded over the course of the 19th century. Only in the early 20th century did Dutch dominance extend to what was to become the boundaries of modern-day Indonesia. Although highly populated and agriculturally productive, Java was under Dutch domination for most of the 350 years of the combined VOC and Dutch East Indies era, many areas remained independent for much of this time including Aceh, Lombok, Bali and Borneo.[40]
In 1871, all of the Dutch possessions on the Dutch Gold Coast were sold to Britain.
The Dutch West India company was abolished in 1791, and its colonies in Suriname and the Caribbean brought under the direct rule of the state.[41] The economies of the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean had been based on the smuggling of goods and slaves into Spanish America, but with the end of the slave trade in 1814 and the independence of the new nations of South and Central America from Spain, profitability rapidly declined. Dutch traders moved en masse from the islands to the United States or Latin America, leaving behind small populations with little income and which required subsidies from the Dutch government. The Antilles were combined under one administration with Suriname from 1828 to 1845. Slavery was not abolished in the Dutch Caribbean colonies until 1863, long after those of Britain and France, though by this time only 6,500 slaves remained. In Suriname, slave holders demanded compensation from the Dutch government for freeing slaves, whilst in Sint Maarten, abolition of slavery in the French half in 1848 led slaves in the Dutch half to take their own freedom.[42] In Suriname, after the abolition of slavery, Chinese workers were encouraged to immigrate as indentured laborers,[43] as were Javanese, between 1890 and 1939.[4
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Agriculture
Crops such like coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco and rubber were all introduced by the Dutch. The Dutch were the first to start the spread of the coffee plant in Central and South America, and by the early 19th century Java was the third largest producer in the world.[79] In 1778 the Dutch brought cacao from the Philippines to Indonesia and commenced mass production.[80] Currently Indonesia is the world's second largest producer of natural rubber, a crop that was introduced by the Dutch in the early 20th century.[81] Tobacco was introduced from the Americas and in 1863 the first plantation was established by the Dutch. Today Indonesia is not only the oldest industrial producer of tobacco, but also the second largest consumer of tobacco.[82]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Empire
Chios Wild Tulips The Wild Tulips of Chios: The spring at Chios is filled with colour and fragrance. In fact, if you pass by Kampochora, you will see some nice flowers growing there. They are the tulips, or lalades, as the residents of Chios call them, from the Turkish world lale. There are about six kinds of tulips on Chios and the important fact is that they are self-grown, without the care of anyone.
These flowers impressed the Dutch sailors who arrived on the island in the Medieval times and took some seeds back in their country. That is how Holland started cultivating tulips, which have become since then its trademark. Nowadays, the Municipality of Chios has taken an initiative to protect these rare flowers. In association with the Department of Environment of the Aegean University, a research is being conducted on the possibility of preserving and extending the blooming period of the Tulips. Source:
www.greeka.com
http://www.greeka.com/eastern_aegean/chios/tulips.htm
The introduction of the tulip to Europe is usually attributed to
Ogier de Busbecq, the ambassador of
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor to the Sultan of
Turkey, who sent the first tulip bulbs and seeds to
Vienna in 1554 from the
Ottoman Empire.
[11] Tulip bulbs were soon distributed from Vienna to
Augsburg,
Antwerp and
Amsterdam.
[12] Its popularity and cultivation in the
United Provinces (now the
Netherlands)
[13] is generally thought to have started in earnest around 1593 after the Flemish botanist
Carolus Clusius had taken up a post at the
University of Leiden and established the
hortus academicus.
[14] He planted his collection of tulip bulbs and found they were able to tolerate the harsher conditions of the
Low Countries;
[15] shortly thereafter the tulip began to grow in popularity.
[16]
The tulip was different from every other flower known to Europe at that time, with a saturated intense petal color that no other plant had. The appearance of the non pareil tulip as a
status symbol at this time coincides with the rise of newly independent Holland's trade fortunes. No longer the
Spanish Netherlands, its economic resources could now be channeled into commerce and the country embarked on
its Golden Age. Amsterdam merchants were at the center of the lucrative
East Indies trade, where one voyage could yield profits of 400%.
[17] The new merchant class displayed and validated its success, primarily by setting up grand estates surrounded by flower gardens, and the plant that had pride of place was the sensational tulip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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Brother Sativied,one of our 'own' Alexander the Great started from a place ,a quarter the size of Netherlands...
Only to conquer the rest known world ,back then ...
Oh...And guess what ....
He used the exact same" proper science" you 're talking about ...
His sword... ...
Cheers.
I like growing and building something more and the science behind it than having a big stash