Tangerine_
Well-Known Member
If I had the room I would totally do selections. We've been living in a smaller house while we complete work at our farm house. My father left it to me and his greenhouse structures are still in good shape. Just waiting for me to fill them up again. Though I doubt I'll ever be able to farm on his level.This is what I'm thinking about now. Should I blow the whole pack? And either selectively cross all females? Or let the whole pack naturally pollinate? Just to keep as many genes as I can out of the pack? Then do all the selecting.
I mean if you're really going to pick the best male you really need to take them all to completion first. So you've either got to separate sexs for selective breeding and waste space. Or just keep them together and let them do there thing.
I'd be doing this with the cuttings that I'd normally use to sex my plants. Rather than tossing them after they showed sex. I'd just let them all carry on for seeds. The original seed plants I'd cull the males and allow the females to finish without pollination. So I could do my selecting. From then on I can selectively breed. But always have the open cross pollinated seeds to fall back on in the future. If ever needed.
I've only done it a couple of times, but when I've made seeds in the past I've always just taken the best looking males and set them on a milk crate out in the utility shed. Set the girls lower on the floor, turned the fan on and let em go.
This time around I wanted to have a little more control and only hit a couple of branches on a few select females. I've been chasing chem/citrus/orange terps for awhile and come up short. Figured I might as well try to make my own.