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Zen Peddler

Registered: 06/18/01
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New Cubensis Strains? More like Vendor hype!

#1640839 - 06/17/03 09:34 PM (22 years, 8 months ago)

For a long time vendors have been 'domesticating' wild specimens of cubensis from any exotic area they can find purely to try and capitalise on it. The whole point of developing a good, properly domesticated variety of cubensis would be due to its high yielding/fruiting performance or perhaps an oddity of its genetics that is fairly stable that would make it unique in potency, etc.
The concept of one man going to a small island in thailand and picking seven cubensis specimens from areas within a 50km radius, bringing them back to USA and having someone isolate them once or twice, posting a picture of one of the isolates that manage to fruit in a unique way, printing this and then marketing it as an excitng new 'strain' of cubensis is misleading and redudant. Or capitalism at its worst.
Cubensis like Treasure Coast, PRs, many of the thai spore-races, some of those from Australia (i like the tassie though but there is no way cubensis was found in tasmania!!!) are just average wild cubensis mushrooms being sold with poorly domesticated variable genetics. Basing their relevance as a distinct strain purely on the location of the origin mushroom. And capitalising on the wide variety of genetic throwbacks - such as TC's albino freaks as something other than what they really represent - poor selection and domestication.
If the principle being used is correct, i could go out into the Australian country side and find four cubensis fruits in four different paddocks, isolate them a little, get a few weird fruiting characteristics that i take a picture of, then sell them as four different cubensis strains. Now that is bordering on nasty!
The best example of this came from Captain Max who actually had the guile to receive a bunch of wild prints from Australia and actually use these to make syringes - the Wollongong variety was on the market no longer than two weeks after he received the original prints.
Reputable vendors are few and far between.

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