The Hawaiian strain a hurricane wiped off the map
Genetics can survive almost anything except being lost, and Kauai Electric is proof of how quickly a legendary line can disappear. The Hawaiian strain grew in Kauai's island conditions until a hurricane swept through and, in the space of one natural disaster, wiped the line off the map. The video above tells that story and what became of the genetics in its aftermath.
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Living genetics are the only backup
Here is the uncomfortable lesson in this story: a strain's entire future can rest on the living plants of a single place. There is no cloud backup for genetics. If the living line in a region is lost, that character is lost with it, no matter how famous the strain once was.
That is why preservation through living plants is the entire idea behind CloneBuzzz Genetics. Verified living clones let a strain's character exist in more than one place at a time, in the care of more than one grower. The more living copies of a line there are, the less any single event can erase it.
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