DST
Well-Known Member
Hey Toolage, for someone who has not grown before, would it not be better to get that waxed first before starting to "chuck pollen" around as some people say.
First off, I would say, why are you growing? For your own stash? or just to create something unique that no-one else has got? And then what will you do with that creation?
I am sure you are a smoker/MJ lover otherwise you wouldn't be growing, unless you want to start a seed company or something to sell that one unique strain.
In Bred lines are something that are created through inbreeding, simple as that. That is to say, you are breeding towards the look and traits of a certain phenotype. Normally this will create identical plants through all future offspring. This is a good starting point but the future offspring are only identical becuase you are crossing a Male and a Female that hold the same chromozones and characteristics. This is really what you want I would say in your end product.
To cross and create a new strain there is no point crossing like for like plants. Two indicas of similar traits will produce similar indicas, simply put, two chinese people will produce a chinese looking child. Two scandinavians will probably produce quite a tall scandinavian child. Mix the scandi's and the Chinese together then you probably get more Tibetan looking offspring, or what some people from parts of Russia look like.
Anyway, back to plants. I wouldn't say you have to necessarily start with an IBL, you need to start with plants that have the distinctive traits you are looking for to start with. Then when crossing multi strain plants you again need to cross in according to what traits you want to achieve. So if you are looking for the vigour of a Sativa, with the strength to hit the body and a short flowering period for example, you need to use the plants that produce these traint and start corssing them into each other and then using the resulting offspring to narrow down that trait to then cross into each other again. ONce you have the satifactory cross you can then introduce another line into that strain, for example to add Purple into it, or interestin gcolouring, or hard mould resistance, or auto flowering.
Really it is about time and patience. And for a new grower it surprise me that you want to go down this route. But each to their own and good luck. I have been crossing and inbreeding my plants for a number of years to get my own seed product (I think I have order 2 packs of seeds in my life) and it does take a very long time.
As far as choosing males, again, aI re-iiterate, depends on what trait you want from them. All of this requires you to grow your plants in numbers, select the phenotypes you want and progress from there. MAles you want strong side branching, deep smells just like the females, look out for structure, vigour, all the elements you would look at in a female.
I hope this helps but I would still suggest getting a couple of grows under your feet before going down this route that will probably in all essence take you a couple of years to get waxed. But hey, you are probably moe patient than me. Good luck, DST
First off, I would say, why are you growing? For your own stash? or just to create something unique that no-one else has got? And then what will you do with that creation?
I am sure you are a smoker/MJ lover otherwise you wouldn't be growing, unless you want to start a seed company or something to sell that one unique strain.
In Bred lines are something that are created through inbreeding, simple as that. That is to say, you are breeding towards the look and traits of a certain phenotype. Normally this will create identical plants through all future offspring. This is a good starting point but the future offspring are only identical becuase you are crossing a Male and a Female that hold the same chromozones and characteristics. This is really what you want I would say in your end product.
To cross and create a new strain there is no point crossing like for like plants. Two indicas of similar traits will produce similar indicas, simply put, two chinese people will produce a chinese looking child. Two scandinavians will probably produce quite a tall scandinavian child. Mix the scandi's and the Chinese together then you probably get more Tibetan looking offspring, or what some people from parts of Russia look like.
Anyway, back to plants. I wouldn't say you have to necessarily start with an IBL, you need to start with plants that have the distinctive traits you are looking for to start with. Then when crossing multi strain plants you again need to cross in according to what traits you want to achieve. So if you are looking for the vigour of a Sativa, with the strength to hit the body and a short flowering period for example, you need to use the plants that produce these traint and start corssing them into each other and then using the resulting offspring to narrow down that trait to then cross into each other again. ONce you have the satifactory cross you can then introduce another line into that strain, for example to add Purple into it, or interestin gcolouring, or hard mould resistance, or auto flowering.
Really it is about time and patience. And for a new grower it surprise me that you want to go down this route. But each to their own and good luck. I have been crossing and inbreeding my plants for a number of years to get my own seed product (I think I have order 2 packs of seeds in my life) and it does take a very long time.
As far as choosing males, again, aI re-iiterate, depends on what trait you want from them. All of this requires you to grow your plants in numbers, select the phenotypes you want and progress from there. MAles you want strong side branching, deep smells just like the females, look out for structure, vigour, all the elements you would look at in a female.
I hope this helps but I would still suggest getting a couple of grows under your feet before going down this route that will probably in all essence take you a couple of years to get waxed. But hey, you are probably moe patient than me. Good luck, DST
