PolyChucker
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My friend accidentally made some seeds in his disorganized grow room and gifted them to me. I thought it would be fun to try breeding them. They were pretty weak to begin with but I’ve been able to improve frost, potency, effect and smell over 3 generations. What I’m not getting is the insane growth rates of some professional strains.
I’ve read the Soma book a couple times, and he said “put the seedlings under 24hr light for the first month, until they are about 1 foot tall.” I am definitely not getting that kind of growth. I’m lucky if they’re 3” across after 2 weeks and maybe 7-8” tall after one month. Recently I sprouted the cross of my two biggest plants just to see if I could get some quick growth rate and then blend that into the other plants but these seedlings are growing pretty slow.
It seems I’ve been able to improve a lot of aspects of the plants through inbreeding, but I’m wondering if I need to outcross to get that crazy growth.
I think plants that are super vigorous have other benefits, like they’re easier to clone because the roots are growing so fast and they show sex as soon as 6 weeks instead of 7-8+. Seems like my breeding project would be faster and easier if they had crazy growth.
For breeders out there - have you worked with slow growing plants that had great bud and were able to push the size up slowly or did you have to outcross to get those fast growth genes?
I’ve read the Soma book a couple times, and he said “put the seedlings under 24hr light for the first month, until they are about 1 foot tall.” I am definitely not getting that kind of growth. I’m lucky if they’re 3” across after 2 weeks and maybe 7-8” tall after one month. Recently I sprouted the cross of my two biggest plants just to see if I could get some quick growth rate and then blend that into the other plants but these seedlings are growing pretty slow.
It seems I’ve been able to improve a lot of aspects of the plants through inbreeding, but I’m wondering if I need to outcross to get that crazy growth.
I think plants that are super vigorous have other benefits, like they’re easier to clone because the roots are growing so fast and they show sex as soon as 6 weeks instead of 7-8+. Seems like my breeding project would be faster and easier if they had crazy growth.
For breeders out there - have you worked with slow growing plants that had great bud and were able to push the size up slowly or did you have to outcross to get those fast growth genes?