Breeding with fems is like playin cards with half a deck.
Yeah, I'd love to play poker where I get dealt from a deck with mostly face cards.
(You can make many hands of high quality with half a deck, especially when you stack it!)
Breeding with fems is like playin cards with half a deck.
The creation of the breeder is art, the route to the creation is science and the fertilisation itself is just magic.
Keep on growing
that might be true but you yer not gona find great in there.Yeah, I'd love to play poker where I get dealt from a deck with mostly face cards.
(You can make many hands of high quality with half a deck, especially when you stack it!)
Ok, Tom.
How would you work two separate female lines together?
Ie, I have an OG that has the most amazing cedar/sandalwood scent, and a super stocky super frosty but bland heavy yielding strain.
Would you proceed as you did using one line, but at the end take the two spectacular females(after hopefully stabilizing intended traits, supposing they can be) from separate lines and cross them to see combining ability and work from there to see if you could get the cedar smell on the stocky plant with reliability?
Indeed the plants doRight on bro,it is an art to observe and choose......we have no magic though.
the plants do!
Hey TA,
You say lines, but then you say "an OG" coupled with a "super frosty heavy yielding strain... Is the OG an individual or a "strain", is the super frosty etc really a strain too are key questions, that is to ask, does either line breed true for these traits you covet. If not, then the project would benefit from some work imo yes. Perhaps not as much as outlined earlier in the pedigree method, but certainly some S1 progeny testing coupled with pairwise cross testing so as to assure you end up with something as close to what you're looking for as is possible.
Many OG's breed relatively true for many traits, and work well in outcrosses due to that. If you are not sure whether or not the one in question does, selfing it and observing it's progeny will tell you what you need to know in that regard. If it does, great, if not, then it is likely that some of it's S1 progeny will. All this should be determined before the outcross, that is making sure the parental candidates to be tested are relatively prepotent in their ability to pass on said traits.
It's the heavy yielding super frosty strain where you will likely run into more trouble, at least I have never seen one that performs with any reliability because yield is such a complex trait, throw in trichome field density and it becomes moreso. So again a way we can determine this is by selfing individuals, and observing their progeny.
I humbly suggest that Tom starts a book club thread. He can recommend texts and maybe answer some questions that people might have or point out areas to pay particular attention to.
i'm sure you guys prolly answer this question all the time, but if i have a female in clone form and i want to get into seed form, can i do this (the following)?
i will take a random male and cross it to clone only girl. grow out the f1 generation and take all, or a selection of the best and dust the mom again. in that bx generation will i find a large percentage of girls that resemble the mom that i can then cross with the males from the f1 to find more females similar to the original mom?
since i'm excluding all the females in the f1 and using only the mom traits passed to the males won't that help me isolate the original genes faster since i don't have to factor any females carrying the traits passed from the original male?
It might be misleading to choose a parent for a hybrid on the basis of its self-cross behaviour.