Blue Dream, Green Crack, Gorilla Glue, Wedding Cake.











All of these strains had their time in the spotlight before fading away as more strains gained popularity. And the strains that are popular now will face a similar fate soon enough. Such is the process of cannabis breeding and selective genetics.
Dubbed "The Blue Dream Effect", it is the process of a strain blowing up on the market to the point where everybody is growing it...until they aren't. Maybe it is a new, better strain that uses the original as a parent, or an entirely different strain that doesn't even compare. One way or another, a strain that sits at the top can't sit there forever.











With demand for incredible, dank new cannabis strains constantly on the rise, it is on cannabis breeders to search for the best genetics to produce. This might be a small grower selecting from 6 seeds, or a large scale commercial operations sorting through thousands of plants just to find a handful of keepers. So how do they choose?
Some growers might just grow what they like and see success. They have an eye and nose for quality cannabis that people want, regardless of the strain. Other growers breed what the market trends indicate as the best to increase their chances of selling all their crop. Neither is the wrong approach.
However the equipment and design of your grow will always impact the quality of your cannabis.











In This Episode
In the final episode of The Real Dirt Podcast featuring Zach, Matt and Leland of Front Row Ag, the guys talk about selective genetics, The Blue Dream Effect and what profiles they all look for when they're pheno hunting. They also talk about the importance of grow room design from HVAC to lighting, and the new trends that the guys at Front Row are starting to see take hold for the future.











Transcript
Chip:  And we're back. I'm just rolling it up. What do we got here? Some Dosi, Dosidoe 22 from Jive. 
 
Leland: Got some Skittles over her.
 
Chip:  Got some Skittles over here from the Baker's Ranch. What are you, what are you gonna puff on over there, Leland?
 
Leland:  I've got my Truth Serum.
 
Chip:  Truth Serum, Truth Serum. 
 
Leland:  It's pretty good.
 
Chip:  Tell us about Truth Serum.
 
Leland:  So it's a OG IBL and a Cookie backcross using Gorilla Glue. And it's a strain that I started working on, working out over at a Dank by Pank in Colorado. Yeah, those guys grow some absolute fire. And this is just kind of a project that I've been watching grow for a long time and found this plant. And it's just one of those ones that you know, really fall in love with pretty easy. And -
 
Chip:  Smells dank, man.
 
Leland:  Yeah, smokes good, smells good. You know, when, when we found it, we smoked through at least 20 different phenos and that one we smoked towards the end and I just remember it hitting harder than anything else. And that's, that's really the real way to -
 
Chip:  Laboratory tests only go so far. And we do love our laboratories, we love our purple scientific,