Theres a lot to learn in breeding but its really simple. Kinda like when learning to grow it seems like a lot but you get better. After so much time youre nailing it and, you still sont know everything about what youre doing? Breeding is just using tools to create something. Its all about objective and if you achieved it or not while you were active.
As soon as you know what you want to do because it doesnt exist yet, you just focus on the few tools and steps. To create your goal. The real challenge is finding the obvious traits you want, but also the invisible ones that make it just as valueable. True female, doesnt lose its traits being cloned before the usual 10 generation mark, consistant traits expressed under various conditions.
Traits are everything, when you start to identify them you realize you can stabilize them. Growing the same clone 7 times inadvertantly showed me all the traits Im looking for to breed with. Its boring subtle things you notice but they come together fast later, like holy shit, thats some real insight type thing.
Im becoming a breeder because believe it or not, lets put this to the test, find me a strain that was inbred for hash. To a f4-f5 level or IBL status. Or even bx3 for christ sake. Not the same 5 I already know of. Compare that to a f1 poly hybrid, there are countless. There is TONS of room to grow and this is just an example to my situation. You can find your place in it all just like I did.
Just follow my project and youll probably find your inspiration for your own project. If people were just freakin willing to share info and be kind Id be on this years ago. Thats the thing, true breeding your project might not make it if youre really doing jt properly. Its a slow gradual process with many discarded plants while mating the best ones. Keeping mothers alive until the strain is made, lots can go wrong.
Not too much to make a new person daunted from trying, look at it as inspiration. Those key few steps are what create quality, not cutting corners. You dont need thousands of plants to be a breeder except with polyhybrids which even those you could breed with but luck becomes the main strategy. You can just continue a project that was somewhat inbred already. Like a S1, S2, or bx1 and bx2, F2 or F3, etc.
Those cut down the pheno numbers to where a small legal home grower of 6-12 plants can accomplish pretty easily. You can create something pure for its strong bred traits like for ex for my project, 30% flower rosin yield. Now my work can be used to create outdoor varieties, flavors, list goes on. Nobody did it yet to a IBL status and for a specific hash method.
The hash breeding game is a mess and not even established yet, not even for each hash method nor the ones that been around for decades. Rosin is a specific kind of hash that a large pile of bubble or drysift etc, wont just provide. Its a special process that involves chemical changes into a new compound. It can basically be vaporized before turning into hash you can hold in your hand.
For example I learned long ago machine trimming took half of my flower rosin yield. This means ounces of rosin gone and it wasnt scattered in the machine trimmer. It somehow vanished into thin air. So to say you have a f5 good for concentrates, that doesnt tell me if its for BHO or bubble, is there any viable hash in it? How much are we talking? 20-25%? You tend to want maximum yield so 30% would be nice.
Even if it was like that already which it should be, you should be able to give numbers. Even if it was, seeds sell out. Someone has to keep putting the work in. I cant wait another 10 years for this market to expand to where I dont have to breed. I could be the one that makes it happen which is cool, Ive always wanted purpose in life. Even if I dont make it, Im laying the ground work for it.
When first starting and finding my first pheno, I told my self Id look into what it would take to continue that breed since it was limited edition. Well I sure learned how to do that alright. Self sufficiency, theres low chance someone is gonna breed it the way i intend to grow it. Im doing it for myself but I learned if you do it right, you should share it because it will likely do great in the market.
They will need to grow it like me tho and would need to somehow get that info to them. Via forum or description in seed bank. Im in dtw coco but its the easiest hydro method IMO and looking for phenos that have low light saturation points so any average LED will do. Make sure they know to hand trim and be gentle with it till its being pressed, dried 60/60 and press at certain temp, that should be it.
The rest would be more on how it grows, that I grow full size plants 2.5x2.5 or 3x3 topped only once at 6th node. Lollipop and defol a bit in otherwords traditional style growing. Thats it.
