What breeding book for beginers?

[Singto]

Hi, i cant create a thread in breeding for some reason??

I was just about to order marijuana botany, but on reading a review it says its very scientific, almost an advanced breeding book.

Ive some breeding understanding but wanted something for a beginer to intermediate level.

Could you suggest anything?


Oh, im happy to look through threads on breeding, i am doing and will continue to, but wanted a book to take fishing.

 

[smokinweedgi]

hi theyre ,sounds good day fishing, reading up on breeeding and smokin some fine green
im no expert but recentally i was linked to this book
Marijuana Botany: Propagation and Breeding of Distintive Cannabis By Robert Connell Clarke
seems the whole book is available free on google books

here is a link to the book http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_aK7dTNS1qkC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=acclimatize+strain+for+early+flowering&source=bl&ots=A-BdGv83z1&sig=Ll3PzuDkTKTksNJ_Hkbs1yienos&hl=en&ei=a8ChTZnaI4mChQeE-aj4BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=acclimatize%20strain%20for%20early%20flowering&f=false

hope it is some help to you

 

[daheadies]

marijuana botany is a pretty good one..
My favorite reference / most growers reference = Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible by Jorge Cervantes

heres a link to amazon http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Horticulture-Outdoor-Medical-Growers/dp/187882323X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304772052&sr=8-1

 

[Singto]

marijuana botany is a pretty good one..
My favorite reference / most growers reference = Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible by Jorge Cervantes

heres a link to amazon http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Hor...323X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304772052&sr=8-1

thanks,
ive got the bible i let my bro borrow it ages ago so ill have to get it back when i next see him and have another look at the breeding section.

 

[B. Friendly]

these will not be breeding mj persay, but it's a list I've had since i asked for some books
BOOKS:
Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible
Cannabis grow Bible by Greg Green
Cannabis breeders Bible by Greg Green
Marijuana Garden Save by J.C. Stitch
Integral Hydroponics.

 

[Dr. D]

Look up Mendal's Law, will teach you about genetic inheritance...Peace

 

[DocLeaf]

Soma's Book is useful , so is an older book by Mel Franks (Marijuana growers guide). Otherwise breeding isn't restricted to cannabis... look beyond the fold

peace

 

[VerdantGreen]

breeding and genetics are fairly universal and there arent really any beginners books on cannabis breeding specifically - or advanced ones for that matter

i got
"Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmers Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving" by carol deppe.
it has lots of good general info about f1's and line breeding etc - also you can read it in pulic without incriminating yourself.

VG

 

[Singto]

hi theyre ,sounds good day fishing, reading up on breeeding and smokin some fine green
im no expert but recentally i was linked to this book
Marijuana Botany: Propagation and Breeding of Distintive Cannabis By Robert Connell Clarke
seems the whole book is available free on google books

here is a link to the book http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_aK7dTNS1qkC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=acclimatize+strain+for+early+flowering&source=bl&ots=A-BdGv83z1&sig=Ll3PzuDkTKTksNJ_Hkbs1yienos&hl=en&ei=a8ChTZnaI4mChQeE-aj4BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=acclimatize%20strain%20for%20early%20flowering&f=false

hope it is some help to you

Hey man, yeah thats it but i think you forgot the munchies the perfect day on the bank.

This is the book i thought about getting earlier, its the one most talked about but i didnt know if it'd be too full on. I remember reading a breeding article once and thinking w.t.f! but after rereading a few times it started to make sense. Hope that happens with this.

Cheers for the link ill have a look

Thanks.

 

[e4ian]

indoor marijuana horticulture. [OH breeding.there use to be a breeding section!]

 

[Singto]

breeding and genetics are fairly universal and there arent really any beginners books on cannabis breeding specifically - or advanced ones for that matter

i got
"Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmers Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving" by carol deppe.
it has lots of good general info about f1's and line breeding etc - also you can read it in pulic without incriminating yourself.

VG

Yeah i guess your right. Its just a plant afterall.

lol i sellotaped a piece of card over the cover of my indoor bible so i could read it in the garden!

Thanks.

 

[Singto]

these will not be breeding mj persay, but it's a list I've had since i asked for some books
BOOKS:
Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible
Cannabis grow Bible by Greg Green
Cannabis breeders Bible by Greg Green
Marijuana Garden Save by J.C. Stitch
Integral Hydroponics.

Cannabis breeders Bible by Greg Green... sounds like a contender. The review on amazon sounds like its from the author, lol very detailed indeed.

Thanks guys.

 

[Singto]

Look up Mendal's Law, will teach you about genetic inheritance...Peace

Heard of it, but will look into it abit further.

Tahnks.

 

[Singto]

Soma's Book is useful , so is an older book by Mel Franks (Marijuana growers guide). Otherwise breeding isn't restricted to cannabis... look beyond the fold

peace

Thanks man.

 

[wisco61]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_square

Pot is not some magic plant that violates the laws of nature. It behaves like anything else with genes, so just figure that out and you can apply it to apples, oranges, dogs, cats and weed.

Once this diagram makes sense you are well on your way.

 

[zenoonez]

Mendelian law is a drastic oversimplification of genetics as we know it today. OP, you might want to to start with what has been mentioned and then move on to some college level genetics textbooks. These can be easily identified by searching the net for syllabi's for genetics classes.

 

[wisco61]

It might be an oversimplification for scientists, but for someone who doesn't understand recessive and dominant traits skipping over it would be like putting the carriage before the horse. Of course if you have the equipment to do DNA sequencing you can skip the methods used for 100 years of plant breeding.

 

[Singto]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance

Pot is not some magic plant that violates the laws of nature. It behaves like anything else with genes, so just figure that out and you can apply it to apples, oranges, and weed.

Once this diagram makes sense you are well on your way.

Cheers, yeah it kinda does.

W's and R's are traits (particularities like smell or earlyness).

And W and R represent the same trait? like early and late??

 

[Singto]

To be fair all i want is a book to read whilst im fishing. I'm not going to master any botanical science, but i do expect to understand what im reading. I probably wont understand it all but i'll take what i can and use it throughout my grows, one step at a time.

I just want to read a bit and be able to imagine/predict what next years crop might be like and feel like i have some kind of positive influence over what is happening.

Singto.

 

[zenoonez]

It might be an oversimplification for scientists, but for someone who doesn't understand recessive and dominant traits skipping over it would be like putting the carriage before the horse. Of course if you have the equipment to do DNA sequencing you can skip the methods used for 100 years of plant breeding.

It is a false premise upon which you build the rest of genetics until they correct it. I am simply saying that the idea that there are only dominant and recessive traits and they they are controlled by one specific gene simply doesn't mesh with what we know about genetics. I agree that we have to start somewhere but its like teaching Newtonian physics as "correct" when it is more accurately described as "incomplete." Is it a good basic idea in the sense that it is a simple way to represent a much more complex system, but we later find out that it isn't totally true. If the OP truly wants to know about genetics and breeding he would be better served to try and get a much more in-depth understanding of how genetics works and that will take some serious research and time and desire, just ask Chimera.