making a winter strain?

i live in the mid west. as you know it snows here in the winter season. and gets purty cold. with years of proper selection is it prossible to create a strain resistant to 30 degree winter/snow cllimate?

Sure it is possible, see all the other plants that are alive during winter times? The question is, do professional breeders know how to make MJ more cold resistant?

Its not so much the problem of the cold its the fact that the short days will send the plant into flower. So even if it was cold resistant it would still have to spend the majority of its life in summer to be able to harvest in winter otherwise the plant would start to flower in the winter and if not fully done once the summer days roll back around it may try to reveg on you.

SikSol said:

Its not so much the problem of the cold its the fact that the short days will send the plant into flower. So even if it was cold resistant it would still have to spend the majority of its life in summer to be able to harvest in winter otherwise the plant would start to flower in the winter and if not fully done once the summer days roll back around it may try to reveg on you.

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mhm, I suppose they can always try to get the cold resistant in with an autoflowering strain so it doesn't go back into vegging. An autoflowering strain that can withstand temperatures in the negatives would be awesome......

autoflower would be the least of your worries, the only other plants that are alive during the winter, are carniforous trees, at least where i am. so unless you pliced pine tree genes, your gonne need more like 30 thousand years

Wigmo said:

autoflower would be the least of your worries, the only other plants that are alive during the winter, are carniforous trees, at least where i am. so unless you pliced pine tree genes, your gonne need more like 30 thousand years

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It wouldn't take that long...

You can force environmental change on plants as you breed them... You can find strains that are already resistant to cold, then as you breed, each generation you gradually lower the temperature in the area. This will cause each offspring to be a slight bit more cold resistant..... But this would take generations. It has to do with epigenetics and environmental stress factors influencing the plants genes when offspring are being created. This happens so the offspring are better prepared for the environment. It certaintly is possible, would not take 30 thousand some years but it wouldn't be done in a short time, Probably would be easiest to do it with a strain that has a short life span...an autoflower, say lowryder or something with a 60 day grow time.