Phenos? What are they???

beastbub

beastbub

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Been seeing this word pheno a lot, what does it mean?? Why do some people believe its really important and some people do not.give a fuck about it?

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A "pheno" is defined as plants with different characteristics of the parents within a certain strain.

For example.

I once grew out 4 seeds POWER KUSH by DINAFEM.

I had 2 stocky plants, 1 tall lanky plant and 1 little runt.

All fed the same nutrients in a hydro system.

One pulled 5oz dry another 1.5oz dry and 2 pulled 3oz dry.

These were the same strain showing different characteristics of the parents from breeding.


J
 
jondamon said:
A "pheno" is defined as plants with different characteristics of the parents within a certain strain.

For example.

I once grew out 4 seeds POWER KUSH by DINAFEM.

I had 2 stocky plants, 1 tall lanky plant and 1 little runt.

All fed the same nutrients in a hydro system.

One pulled 5oz dry another 1.5oz dry and 2 pulled 3oz dry.

These were the same strain showing different characteristics of the parents from breeding.


J
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No need to add more that was a perfect explanation in my book.
 
chuck estevez said:
Basically,two brothers who are twins, but not identical are different phenos.
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this is exactly the way i like to word it, and always love comparing plants to people when ever possible.. pheno's are just the way the different chromosomes express themselves in each plant of the same strain..
look at your mom and dad, and your brothers if you have any.. even though both of you have the same dna, your brother might be short, with brown hair and brown eyes, while you're tall, and have blue eyes and blonde hair... different phenos..
genotype is the same pheno, just grown in a different environment, and how the plant responds to it's environment.. think identical twins for genos.. you have an identical twin brother, but he went and lived with your dad in africa, and you were raised in cali with your mom.. even though you're both the same pheno, you'd be two very different people as a result of the environment you were raised in.. this is genotype.. :D
 
Twins
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Identical twins
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clones
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I hope this helps a little
 
I always think of it like a litter of puppies,labs for example,Both parents are labs, but in a litter you may have black, brown, and yellow. All labs, just different labs.
 
Comparing plants to animals (including humans) usually doesn't work well. The comparisson with twins by itself only works if you assume all siblings are homozygous for most traits which is typically not the case with the plants most people here ask questions about.

For example, two sons can both be of the brown hair pheno and have a different pair of genes for other genes but also for the one determining hair color (CC and Cc would be brown, cc would be blonde, that's 3 different genotypes, 2 different phenotypes).

Phenotype is simply the observable expression/characteristics of the sum of the alleles in the genotype, 'possibly' (not necessarily) influenced by the environment.

Rather than using non-applicable analogies, for Joe the Average Grower phenotype is pretty much interchangeable with trait (e.g. the tall pheno, the haze pheno, the short flowering pheno, the purple pheno,etc.)
 
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jondamon said:
A "pheno" is defined as plants with different characteristics of the parents within a certain strain.

For example.

I once grew out 4 seeds POWER KUSH by DINAFEM.

I had 2 stocky plants, 1 tall lanky plant and 1 little runt.

All fed the same nutrients in a hydro system.

One pulled 5oz dry another 1.5oz dry and 2 pulled 3oz dry.

These were the same strain showing different characteristics of the parents from breeding.


J
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thx for the reply!
so like by stablelizing a strain, you pick plants with the same phenos u want therefore to increase the chance that the off springs will have the pheno, correct?

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When I was in high school science class we bred Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) and we were trying to bring out a specific trait....all of mine flew away...I failed
 
Commander Strax said:
When I was in high school science class we bred Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) and we were trying to bring out a specific trait....all of mine flew away...I failed
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damn wish i had a chance to do it haha
would be better if the teacher lets us to learn by using mj plants
even better if we can enjoy the knowledge as well as the end product
:P
 
beastbub said:
damn wish i had a chance to do it haha
would be better if the teacher lets us to learn by using mj plants
even better if we can enjoy the knowledge as well as the end product
:P
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the life cycle is very short for fruit flies, you can do many generations in one semester. Weed would take longer
 
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