What this is
A register, and a magazine about it
Weedtimes Mag belongs to BreedToSeed, a breeding mod for Schedule I. Two halves: a reference for all 723 strains the mod can produce, and a record of who bred each of the 684 generated ones first.
Where the strains come from
39 strains are authored - designed, named, and the same for everyone. Crossing any two of them gives 741 possible pairs, and only 35 of those were spoken for. The rest used to come back as a backcross.
Now every pair is a strain. The other 684 are generated from their parents by a fixed rule, with no randomness anywhere: the same cross gives the same strain in every player's game, on every machine. That is what makes one shared register possible at all.
A generated strain sits at its higher parent's tier, never above it. So a lucky pairing is a sidegrade with a different set of effects, never a shortcut past the authored tree.
Who gets to name one
The first player in the world to breed a generated strain names it. Not the first in their save - the first, full stop, decided by when the claim reaches this server.
Breeding it is enough to hold the right. The name can follow whenever: hours later, days later, from the Weedtimes Mag app on the in-game phone. Nobody has to choose between staying in the game and keeping their discovery.
Once a name is on the register it is permanent, and it shows up on that strain in every other player's game.
Why half the register says ???
A cross is listed by its parents, and a parent nobody has discovered yet is written ???. It resolves for everyone the moment the first player in the world breeds that strain.
That puts the 35 authored hybrids in the same game as the generated ones. Working out that a cross needs Krunk OG is itself a discovery, and the register stops being a lookup table you read once. It gets written as people play.
The four base strains are never hidden - they are on sale in the seed shop from the first minute, and pretending otherwise would say nothing true. A cross nobody has discovered has no page here at all yet, for a plain reason: a page's address is built from its parents, so it would give away in the address bar exactly what the page was withholding.
In the game the same fog is drawn from your save rather than from the world, because that is what a player means by "discovered". Somebody else's progress does not lift it.
What a name may be
- 2 to 24 charactersit has to fit on the seed vial's printed label
- Letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, apostrophesnothing else
- No accented letters, no emojithe game draws them as empty boxes
- Unique across the whole registercase and spacing are ignored, so "Sunset Haze" and "sunsethaze" are one claim
- No trademarks, no real peoplethe mod already renamed three strains away from those
Moderation, honestly
A name is scored when it arrives. Most go live immediately - waiting for a human would ruin the moment somebody just earned. A name that trips the filter waits for review instead, and a name that should never have gone live can be taken down afterwards, in which case the cross goes back to being open.
Players who would rather not see other people's names in their own game can turn that off in the mod's settings. Their register entries still count.
Credit
The breeding tree, the strain names and the original idea are fadestyle's. The mod, this register and the site are DooDesch's.