vanilla dutch
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Is this like with humans.where as male sperm determine the gender of the baby? Can that be said about cannabis pollen?
Starting off growing in the 70s i was told by the older growers to select the strongest male with in my numbers to produce seed for the following year.That was growing land race / heirloom variety's Basically inbreeding.
You would do that year after year to preserve the strain and keep your self in seed.
Then after logging onto the forums i started to read people growing hybrids or poly hybrids mostly saying you need to use more than one male to preserve all the genetics.
Then came the female sex reversal .
Now if we look at breeders like Nevil who used selected single males one being haze C the resulting work ended up being winning crosses.
He never did open pollination using multiple males one male at a time.
We know males help clean mutations help keep the next gen healthy they hold ancestral memory and i am sure do or add more so my take is males are important.
Definitely a little interesting how Mr. Nice only uses 6 male plants for all of their crosses, no selection other than females. I guess you find a good male you can hit anything with it and it's going to at least be pretty good. But then you got some of the newer breeders that have frostier weed than Black Widow that smells 5x stronger you begin to realize just how important selecting new males can be, just not everyone can select 10,000 males, females are being done. Supposedly Arjan is selecting thousands of plants in the Congo, then you have Humboldt Seed Company selecting the best from like 10,000 seeds in northern California, they do have males probably not selected as good though. Just can't get enough people to grow out your males, but males get better just like the females, nothing from Shantibaba is going to place in any cannabis cup in the world, cause the males have not been worked in a very long time. At least a great point to get old school genetics that are good on THC, so they're very easy to improve. I imagine just SSH X GG#4 would be have some amazing girls and it can be called Super Glue work it a little and it's the Krazy Glue. Lol
People would give there right arm for Haze C if they could get it and a lot of what many call elite clones are related to Nevils old work that's coming from people in Humboldt.
All Arjan did in the Congo and other places he took seed from was to steel farmers genetics and leave them feminized seed that hermied.
From the research i did on males what i found most interesting was there ability to purge bad mutations and by doing so they kept the population healthy.They carry ancestral information and much more and yet in the last 10 to 15 years many dont even use males in there breeding how do you think that will end.