For me sprouting genetically defective is a recent phenomenon. I have no interest in the science behind it. When one encounters this, you can pull and plant new or take the time to grow them out of it. I grow them out just to reinforce my cultivation skills. Besides if someone relies on a 10 pack from a bank at $$$ you gotta make do or feel ripped off.
On to the story:
Trixie is my first ever mutant. The strain is Zacatecas Tribute. Unique breeding of two preserved strains. The seeds were very viable and paper towel quickly produced elongated taproots. And, above ground damped off quickly. starting pellets produced good seedlings. I babied her with light feeding of Big Bloom until she established. Pictures show first six weeks and the plant near harvest. Filenames identify week/day. Here is the progression:
My brain always think special. Trixie leaned toward the mother “Big Sur Holy Weed” a preserved strain from the 1960s. She smell whole tent up like flowers. Not anymore potent than rest of garden. Here is story how mother was bred and history behind it.
Even though today BSW is available, it is not original. They used strain name. It cannot because only the monk who bred it in the 60s knows the indica and Mexican sativa he choose.
Been sticking in my mind. Sorry for delay in response. Makes sense to me. Something I need to research. My knowledge was once you reached F5 the strain can then be considered its own and can be renamed. So, maybe generational landrace would begin producing genetic mutants. I guess seed collection would require selection.
Trixie was my first mutant ever. Breeding is from two preserved strains and have had many generational cultivations.
Good consideration when a consumer selects seed. Tanks . . .
If my understanding is right many of the mutations comes from inbreeding too much, many of these multicrossed (polyhybrid) strains today have been crossed again and again
I think mutations can be fun, and some breeders are actively selecting for it
Some breeders also have used polyploidy genetics to counteract this (found by AI) I wish breeders was more honest about using strong poisons and messing with genetics.
Ganja is supposed to be a healing medicine
A landrace would take more long to get there but as @Prempavee pointed out to me, to keep a landrace healthy and not (bottlenecking) you would need a very big population
And a varity of phenotypes over the field. Makes sense keeps diverse genetics. I always thought of going the colchicine route. When I learned the basics from Mel Frank’s book way back he talked about polyploid plants and using colchicine to create those plants and the seeds.
I never found the article again but someone experimented with crossing mutants and created a third cannabis species. I believe that freakshow was developed from genetic mutations Been a while since I visited it . . .
There was no monk . Big Sur had multiple heirlooms going on , the breeder of s.a.g.e. lived and grew up in big Sur . Potcast episode Mojave Richmond is very interesting in case interested in big Sur story .
Freakshow is from shapeshifter and he found it in a g13 labs pineapple express, then crossed with neutral big Sur for seeds I assume
and the myths goes on . . .. Heirloom seeds are pure landrace preserved over decades. To the best of my recollection. Not sure how many heirlooms were around in the late 60s. Best at that time was Michocan and the standard was brick weed.
From AI:
Ancient Roots: Historical texts like India’s 15th-century Ānandakanda suggest removing male plants to yield pure ganja was practiced hundreds of years prior.1970s Modern Origin: Commercialization and the popular use of the word “sinsemilla” began in Sinaloa and Guadalajara, Mexico, driven by growers and traffickers like Rafael Caro Quintero. The U.S. Shift: U.S. and domestic growers adopted the method in the mid-1970s to transition away from imported, seeded “brick weed”.
Heirloom marijuana did not start in a single year. It refers to original regional strains (often called landraces) brought from places like Asia and South America by travelers during the 1960s and 1970s and then grown and saved by local farmers over 50 to 100 years without modern lab mixing.
While the Big Sur Holy Weed may never have existed as a single, identifiable strain, its myth is a product of California’s cannabis culture, prohibition history, and the romanticization of small-scale, coastal cultivation. It’s less a botanical fact and more a legend shaped by geography, prohibition, and storytelling
I don’t care I like the “story” I found it made it all spiritual hippie to me . .
some people have a theory that mutants have , or at least can have, also unusual compounds profiles
logo very funny
my first time 
