Breeding

I'm surprised we don't have a special thread area for breeding. I feel like it's a very important part of our jobs as cultivators to know where our stuff comes from. Anyone create their own strain? If so, Please share! Also, can someone please explain the f1 and f2 system? Is that referring to generations of fem seeds? And is creating fem seeds considered "backtracking" genetics? I'd eventually like to breed myself.

All strains are just a big genetic mashup of thousands and thousands of mothers and fathers.

unless you have a cut from my garden we will never grow the same plants

printer said:

Breeders Paradise

Questions, Problems, advice on breeding ? Stop by breeders paradise.

www.rollitup.org

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I stand corrected! I couldn't find this, thank you.

JoeBlow5823 said:

All strains are just a big genetic mashup of thousands and thousands of mothers and fathers.

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Are you implying we won't ever truly know the genetics and/or ancestry of our crop?

Phabio007 said:

I stand corrected! I couldn't find this, thank you.



Are you implying we won't ever truly know the genetics and/or ancestry of our crop?

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Maybe someday there will be a "23 and me" for weed. Call it "23 and Weed". But for now, genetics are largely unknown.

JoeBlow5823 said:

Maybe someday there will be a "23 and me" for weed. Call it "23 and Weed". But for now, genetics are largely unknown.

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How can seedbanks/breeders claim to know what each strain is then? If they are all mash ups?

Phabio007 said:

How can seedbanks/breeders claim to know what each strain is then? If they are all mash ups?

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good marketing

90% of this is all b.s the other is nature

Phabio007 said:

How can seedbanks/breeders claim to know what each strain is then? If they are all mash ups?

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They have vague ideas where shit came from. very very vague.

do you have siblings? while your both from the same parents your different no? the only way to attain the same exact copy of a plant is a clone otherwise its just another "family member" could be close like a brother or far like a cousin

for the most part we hunt for phenos similar in traits other people like, then they get names , those names get crossed, jumbled mixed up and rematched and crossed again and again Nd again. then you end with all these new poly hybrid crazy strains

Unless a plant genome comes from a particular area and has only been crossed with others from that area things get dicey if they are many generations removed.

While I have no 100% blood siblings I see your analogy

Phabio007 said:

While I have no 100% blood siblings I see your analogy

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hence why people pay for cuts of prized plants because its exactly what they want to the T, well hopefully exactly (scumbags)

this breeds the greed lol

This is why I hear so much about pheno hunting. How can you know if it's what you want without flowering? I assume it's why people reveg?

Phabio007 said:

This is why I hear so much about pheno hunting. How can you know if it's what you want without flowering? I assume it's why people reveg?

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You have to flower. Reveg or keep clones from the plant

Have u ever grown any peas?

Like, the vegetable? I haven't.

Phabio007 said:

Like, the vegetable? I haven't.

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Many of ur questions can be answered by looking up a man named Gregor Mendel. He liked peas.

mistergrafik said:

Many of ur questions can be answered by looking up a man named Gregor Mendel. He liked peas.

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lol thats advanced genetics , easier to just buy fem seeds and stay a sheep

jk