Autoflower.org Interviews: Meet the Breeders

[Son of Hobbes]

To get other breeders on board for interview is also a great idea. If you need help to ask around feel free to ask me.

I would love that, in fact the same suggestion for BII would apply here; if you guys have people you'd like for us to reach out to, please by all means refer them and we'll get things rolling with it.

 

[Jean-O]

Good morning everyone!

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We are putting together a new interview series for the forum, where we are going to offer a few different formats:

• A magazine-style, article-style Q&A, where questions are selected and posed and they reply at their leisure, then formatted for publication here on the forum.
  
  
• An audio-only recorded interview, where it's a Q&A over the phone or a recorded program online (not live,) then published on the forum.
  
  
• An audio-video recorded interview, where it's potentially live-streamed (potentially embedded on a page here for easy viewing) or pre-recorded and published on the the forum.

The goal is to keep these shorter, to around 8-10 minutes in length at max. Easier reading, content you can read on your work breaks or lunch break, while diving into the background and key issues surrounding the topic.

I have reached out to every breeder on the forum and I want to say virtually every single one of them already agreed to our "introductory series," which is going to focus on origins, the basics of their companies or breeding work, and letting growers get to know them, know them better, or to discover them if they haven't even heard the name before.

I have several interview question sets already sent out to several breeders on here and the ball is rolling!

I also want to extend this invitation to companies that are NOT on the forum, which I think would be a wonderful way to introduce them to what we do, our growers here, and as a soft invite to take part in what we do as a community!

I hope this will be a fun and educational bit for the site and looking forward to getting to know our breeders and vendors better!

@Cultivators
@Global Moderators
@Admin
@Vendors

Appreciated everyone,


Jordan (Son of Hobbes)

I am down for this just let me know when. It's always a good thing to get to know each other a bit more. We need more getting to know each other going on this day and age. It helps humanize each and every one of us. We may be breeders, but we are also family people who work hard, put in long hours and make lots of sacrifice for our objectives. Our creations usually reflect our personal style or preference for highs or even hash or rosin end results. Even learning the breeders grow style will come in handy when running packs of seeds from them. Such as light intensity and feeding and so forth. Getting to know the breeder holds more information than any strain description will ever give you.

 

[Jean-O]

Also please consider going outside the community of AFN-familar "breeders" and cannabis seed companies and seek out cannabis 'breeding' experts from other communities, particularly industry and science/academia, whose views and input we just don't get here on AFN. This includes cannabis breeding/genetics/growing experts from the largest scale dispensary-supplying growers and now also 'hemp' growers for bulk CBD manufacture; companies doing genuine high tech and novel plant breeding and R&D; from leading cannabinoid pharmaceutical developers, such as GW Pharm. (now Jazz); academic-based cannabis 'breeders,' etc.

Has "The Smoking Question" been adopted as the title? Catchy, but does AFN really want to needlessly associate itself with smoking, which is just bad, unhealthy (vs. avoiding combustion, such as dry bud vaping)? Do most AFNers, presumably more knowledgeable about consuming cannabis than the general user population, even smoke nowadays? [I've been only vaping (using dry bud vaporizers) for about 35 years now]. Rather than smoking, perhaps consider a catchy title using "auto."

Im rolling a 10-pound blunt right now out of tobacco leaf while I chuckle to this..... Ill smoke enough weed to cover everyone who doesnt smoke flower on this site!
And as soon as a real expert exists Id love to hear his opinions in like 50 years when one actually does exist. When dealing with mother nature you can kiss science goodbye and just realize mother nature is in control.

 

[BII]

My and I presume most non-AFNers' first impression seeing "The Smoking Question" would be that it's vague and refers to consumption/smoking/getting high, not anything to do with autos, breeding or a serious interview program. OK for use within AFN, we'll know what it's about, but not much use anywhere else.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

My and I presume most non-AFNers' first impression seeing "The Smoking Question" would be that it refers to consumption/smoking/getting high, not anything to do with autos, breeding or is a serious interview program. OK for use within AFN, we'll know what it's about, but not much use anywhere else.

Anything promoted will clearly have the guests, subject, content, displayed.

We can even display it as "Autoflower.org presents: The Smoking Question." And then there's your "autoflower" reference : I truly don't think anyone is going to be questioning what this is, this is one of those things you bash pots and pans together announcing, you know what I mean?

I have also been working on an SEO focus for the forum for virtually anything and everything we're investing our time into (which is already having noticeable results/gains.)

 

[Olderfart]

I and likely others are more interested in learning new info. and perspectives vs. "getting to know our breeders and vendors better" (doesn't help me grow better). I suggest also providing text of the audio and audio-video files, which can be computer-generated transcriptions. I generally avoid playing audio and video interviews. I find it much quicker, easier, etc. to scan/read text for what I want to know vs. having to sit through slow-in-comparison audio and video files (but maybe I'm old and this could now be dated, no longer how most want to consume info. online).

Also search engines, including AFN's own content database, and AI training file-sucking programs can more easily extract what they want directly from text. AI-generated summaries could also be provided for those needing/wanting these.

I'm with you on the interview stuff, scanning the text works better for this old bugger as well. I am not interested in the chat, mostly just the techinical stuff that would help me understand how to grow better. However, as long as the interviews also have the contents shown as text, all would be just fine for everyone.