Heisenbeans
Well-Known Member
Lol alright man your right. All gg4 s1s are just gg4 s1s so what's the point in keeping up with actual real gg4 clone when all s1s are created equal. Makes absolutely no sense to call seeds from a s1 of an S1 S1s. That's silly as hell.You keep mentioning "cross" when there is no cross unless you are introducing another plant (mom,sister,brother, etc). A selfed GG4 S1, selfed again, then selfed again, then selfed again is still just a GG4 S1. The only time you are "crossing" anything is when another plant not from that S1 generation is introduced. I wont argue the F1 statements because honestly im still learning, but were not talking F1's. I see what you are getting at with not calling something a "GG4 S1" if it is a selfed S1 (the semantics Cob was referring to), but thats exactly what it is until you introduce another plant not from that S1 generation.
I copied this from the web.....
SELFING
Selfing is when a mother plant is pollinated by herself. Breeders use special chemicals on female plants to induce stress, which results in the plants producing male flowers, which produce pollen. When this pollen in used on the female flowers of the same plant or a clone from the same mother, the resulting seeds will be “selfed” or coined as S1. When the S1 seeds are backcrossed with the original parent, they’re called S2, S3, and so on. Breeders often do this to preserve the genetics of the strain, and to feminize the seeds.
I realize what you are saying but s1s of and S1 cannot be a S1 because they are second generation plants that came from an S1 pollination. Nothing about them is S1 of the original mom. They would need to renamed but if you called them GG4 S1 and than made S1s of them you cant call them S1s. I dont see why this is so difficult.