The current system in Australia and some of the system in other places. Good breeders don’t choose parents based on ten or less seeds. The more people condone poor breeding practices the shitter the genetic pool will become. It’s already hard enough to find something that doesn’t have a cookies or chem in it.
And trading pollen instead of seeds makes a difference in that how
As males are harder to find breeding wise it makes more sense to store/trade pollen than seeds. Same reason that semen is traded in the animal agriculture for things like cows and horses etc.
Males are harder to find and yeild no gains while your hunting through them unlike females which can offset the costs of pheno hunting for a breeder.
So you're gonna get stud pollen from someone else's idea of a stud that may not work with your grows enviroment/style of growing just to pollen chuck it at what you have anyway? Rather than doing the hard yards yourself and finding a stud that works for your environment and grow style, not to mention just because you got stud pollen doesn't mean you aren't gonna get trash phenos from that breeding and gonna have to pheno hunt wether you like it or not, then there's also the fact that pollen is harder to store than seeds
yeah you just described breeding. Yes you’d still have to pheno hunt but having a database of pollen (as mentioned previously) allows for easier selection of the male. That’s the point, to save all the work with zero return similar to the race horse industry. Just because you whack champion semen up a champion mate doesn’t mean you’ll get a champion foal but you’ve got a better chance than if you just throw 2 random nags from a padlock in a pen and let them go at it.
Yeah easier selection of a male at risks of: the male not being able to cope with your grows particular environment, your grower skill, or style. Also pollen is harder to store than seeds meaning higher chances of receiving dud pollen. Atleast with seeds if you receive immature seeds you can see that straight away pollen you can't see if it's dud.
Trading pollen could work. Upto the person using it to test them. I'm guessing someone doing a breeding project would use a proven female, and then get as many males as you can get your grubby little hands on, and throw the whole lot over the same female (seperate clones), then test all the results and go from there.
It does exist already. People actually sell pollen, one well known old school breeder has a project in the works where you can buy a pack of seeds and you get some of the original pollen from the father with the pack so you can do your own breeding projects with it.
I meant as in if it was superior to seeds then all seed banks would be pollen banks instead
Ah yeah I get you. Yeah it's only really a market for breeders and pollen chuckers.
Yeah the current market
It’s easy enough to store males. You don’t necessarily need to store pollen but that’s also possible. It’s just takes money. The reason it hasn’t been done is mostly because of a mostly illicit market and people not wanting to share their “stud males” unlike other areas of agriculture that willingly share genetic material
So you'd rather store whole plants keeping then alive and pollen rather than just storing seeds?
Yes, Having the option would be great. Having a pollen or male bank that correctly harvests and stores pollen would be awesome and solve most of the issues with pollen viability. Tissue culture allows for long term storage of plant material with minimal realestate.
