The profit-driven market

Most of the varieties on the market today are humbug, they exist for profit, under fancy-sounding fancy names, with marketing copy wrapped in descriptions, and are sold by the ever-growing "Seed Bank" in the hope of making a profit.
There is no difference between the varieties, or more accurately between most of the variants, you simply cannot tell them apart by looking at them, or by trying them, or by any of their characteristics, it is the fancy name and the description rounded off around it, and of course the price that is different.

One seed company sells a completely different variety under the same name, and then there are the "accidental typos" ("Northern lights" instead of "Northern light" etc.).

The seed trade is not controlled, each company sells it under any name it is not ashamed of, and although in the Netherlands it is possible to register or deregister variety names, in practice only privileged companies can do so, and this is the cause of the typos mentioned above.

The final product a plant can produce depends to a large extent on the knowledge of the grower and the conditions provided.

Of course, roadside corms will never become skunk, but the difference between varieties is not nearly as great as the seed companies claim. Although in some cases it is true, for example the variation (appearance, variation) of a hybrid may be so great that it would be difficult to say they are brothers. If you buy the same variety a year later from the same seed company, surprisingly you will get a different phenotype again. If you order it from a different Seed Bank, you'll get a different one.

It's all about profit, the battle for ownership of the successful breeds is still going on, who found them, where they came from, new breeds are coming out, with images that would make the thickness of a speed skater's thigh envious. Described at

"500g/m2, "A native species growing in the snow-covered fields of Alaska was split in two by lightning and became the seed. It grows well in the desert."

Based on this, and the praise you read on one of the forums run or sponsored by the seed company, someone will buy it. He puts it in his little cupboard, he is a beginner, so 9 out of 10 seeds germinate, 3 die because of overwatering and overfertilization, but he is lucky because the rest of the seeds produce 4 girls, 2 of which he manages to take to the harvest. He managed to get 60 grams on the two plants in 400 watts, but only by manicuring them carefully because he was ashamed to get so few, and drying only took 5 days because the weight was dropping rapidly, so he preferred not to dry them any longer.

The circumstances of the five deaths are worth mentioning. As our man couldn't understand why the leaves were turning brown on his three week old plants, as he waters them every day and they get Top-Max, Bio Buzz, Voodoo Juice, Piranha Tarantula, Iguana Juice and a little Bio Bloom, because the seller said a little of the veg. However, in addition to the 20 grand, she left a feed called 'Mother Earth' in the shop because she miraculously realised that just because a name suggests something, it may - indeed probably - be that the impression the name gives her is not actually about the product. So maybe "mother earth" has little to do with mother earth.