[englishrick]

am i talking out of my arse or what??

[Sam_Skunkman]

You need to read up about inheritance and then ask the questions.
Read a textbook or try Rob Clarke's Marijuana Botany.

Or try here.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.p...9&page=1&pp=15

-SamS

[JWP]

aa is where i should go for help with my drinking problem..

now this processed crap didnt wake me up. i think its had the opposite affect


But macas did provide me with an analogy to desribe this "stacking" technique.
At the drive through checking out the fresh tallent. Was thinking "if only they has there moms working side by side with them" then i would have true insight as to which were the real keepers and which were just cute while young lol.
Thats what this testing the male process is going to do. Give us a sneek peek at the progeny
Definitely ready for bed now lol

[suzycremecheese]

Sam,
it sounds like a great idea... a good place to start narrowing the field in terms of potency, but I don't think it will account for combining ability. If you manage to do some legitimate studies comparing the male flowers with the daughters they produce that will be some ground breaking work. Can't wait to see it...

Originally Posted by Sam

Maybe you need to find or make a super male YY and cross it times a normal XX female, you should get all XY, male? I think so.

That is a technique commonly used in asparagus breeding. The male is the desired sex in asparagus production so breeders find a superior YY male and cross it with a superior female so that all resulting seeds are male. As you mentioned it remains to be seen if YY males would even survive/ germ/ reproduce in cannabis. I imagine it would be easy enough to figure out by sexing a thousand plants and checking your male/female ratio... who knows YY males may even look different than normal males.

Producing YY males may have countless uses. In breeding and evaluating genotypes... etc.

Right on Sam!

I love the idea of turning males to females and evaluating the results. Could save tons of time on breeding.

But how does one go about transforming males into females exactly? Should I start saving banana peels?

[Sam_Skunkman]

Read the first post again...

-SamS

[Sam_Skunkman]

So today I sprayed a male clone with ethephon, 1ml to 1 liter of water.
I will see what happens...


-SamS

[JWP]

Good work, got the ball rolling
lol it must be nice to just happen to have a male on hand. a spare one at that. i imagine you have a few, maybe more than a few.
for me a male is at least 4 weeks away.

i know you must have some sort of plan in mind. maybe 5 male cuts with up to 5ml with 1ml increments. a penny for your thoughts

[Pitt Bully]

XX x XX = XX
XX x XY = XX or XY
XY x XY = XX, XY or YY

Then, YY x XX = only XY

No???

[Sam_Skunkman]

The XX and YY are each 25% of the total, XY is 50%.
Yes, if you want only male seeds. And for your info YY male seeds are very hard to make and even harder to breed with. And you need a way to confirm they are YY.
But I don't think you want all male seeds anyway....

-SamS