Seed Production. A Tutorial

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how many of your seeds do you have to plant in order to find the pheno you want? Im thinking of crossing a blue dream or jack herer with old time moonshine pollen and Im guessing that there will be undesireable plants along with good ones. What is the ratio?

anhedonia said:

how many of your seeds do you have to plant in order to find the pheno you want? Im thinking of crossing a blue dream or jack herer with old time moonshine pollen and Im guessing that there will be undesireable plants along with good ones. What is the ratio?

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when i cross 2 good strains ALL the seeds come out good.

as long as two good strains are crossed and have relatively different genetic backgrounds you will get f-1's which show uniform growth good vigor and equal traits from each parent. all plants should be good if the parents were. if you then cross the offspring you will get f-2's which will have much variability some will suck some will be good and some in between. thats where selection and stabilization begin.

there will be very little variability in the first seeds produced unless they are related in which you never really get f-1's in the first place. although if the strains are reasonably different the first seeds will be uniform f-1 seeds the only thing more stable than f-1's are extremely stable inbred lines worked over for generations or better yet clones. i would think ww and nl will produce f-1's when crossed as there reasonably different. beyond that is where great variability in phenos is shown once bred past the f-1 generation.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GugsCdLHm-Q

one cool thing with f-1's which clones or ibl's do not posses is hybrid vigor produced from combining new genes.

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good work iv been doing the same thing .i colect my pollen and put it in the frezer for a few mounths and the pollen was still good , how long can you keep it in the frezer maby year m will find out for myself

thanks for the vid lol.

Great, thanks for the tips!! Will be trying this.. I have a question though - does pollinating one bud affect the rest of the plant? Does it stunt it's growth or lower the THC content in any way?? I'd like to pollinate a bud off of each of my three flowering girls, but don't want to do it if it will mess up the final outcome in any way..

Thanks again for the help!!!

no the un-pollinated buds are not affected in any way.

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fdd2blk said:

i'm not sure if it's that simple when working with multiple crosses. it could be though. if both strains are 'stable" to begin with then theoretically it will be 50% of each parent, which would make it 75% urkel.

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First off, great tutorial FDD.

I found a male proudly displaying his balls to my babies. I want to keep him for pollen but not in my flower room. If I kept it outside the flower room just until the pods were ready to clip could I avoid pollinating my females?

Also, I fucked up and took clones from the male thinking it was female. They're gonna be males aren't they? I already know this but I hope to hear you tell me I'm wrong. I don't feel like trying to figure out which clones came from that plant.

Detroit Desel said:

First off, great tutorial FDD.

I found a male proudly displaying his balls to my babies. I want to keep him for pollen but not in my flower room. If I kept it outside the flower room just until the pods were ready to clip could I avoid pollinating my females?

Also, I fucked up and took clones from the male thinking it was female. They're gonna be males aren't they? I already know this but I hope to hear you tell me I'm wrong. I don't feel like trying to figure out which clones came from that plant.

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you can keep it outside the room, it just needs some lgiht to grow the pods. CFL's may work.

male clones = male plants

last time I pollenated a branch it covered most all plants I soon found. Pollenating a branch do you suggest a clear baggie over the branch for a week? Being in a closet with good fan/wind I am sure doesn't help. Suggestions?

Relaxed said:

last time I pollenated a branch it covered most all plants I soon found. Pollenating a branch do you suggest a clear baggie over the branch for a week? Being in a closet with good fan/wind I am sure doesn't help. Suggestions?

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in this tutorial i use a small paint brush.

My male plant have me a good amount of pollen sacks, so I've collected them. Can I use any of the plant to make hash? Also, I think I may have hermed the plant by shock. It went about 3 days without water when it was in veg. It took about 2 weeks to bounce back. This was after I took clones from it. Is it possible that it hermed due to shock? And if so, does hermed clones result in hermed plants? Thanks again.