TerrapinBlazin
Well-Known Member
So I’m all set up to start chuckin. I set up an isolated, negative pressurized tent that exhausts directly outside and now I’m starting to select potential phenos for breeding. I’ve selected two males so far based on stem rub smell, vigor, branching, and node spacing. Are there any other things I should consider when selecting a male? I know that those traits won’t automatically produce big fat, resin soaked buds in their offspring, but obviously the best looking and smelling males will carry those traits into the offspring, for the most part right?
While I mainly want to produce regular seeds, there are a few feminized (and regular) crosses I want to do with dispensary clones and some of my best phenos from seed. Is it the same with females? Just reverse the plants with the nicest buds? I’ve been interested in breeding for a long time, but only recently took the steps to actually go through with it.
Finally, what are the pros and cons of flowering a male in a tent with the females I want to cross vs flowering the male, collecting pollen, and dusting buds?
It’s been fun shopping for beans and growing them out, but at this point I have so many, mostly F1s, that I think it’s time to step up the pheno hunting with the beans I have while concurrently starting some serious tinkering with my favorite plants.
While I mainly want to produce regular seeds, there are a few feminized (and regular) crosses I want to do with dispensary clones and some of my best phenos from seed. Is it the same with females? Just reverse the plants with the nicest buds? I’ve been interested in breeding for a long time, but only recently took the steps to actually go through with it.
Finally, what are the pros and cons of flowering a male in a tent with the females I want to cross vs flowering the male, collecting pollen, and dusting buds?
It’s been fun shopping for beans and growing them out, but at this point I have so many, mostly F1s, that I think it’s time to step up the pheno hunting with the beans I have while concurrently starting some serious tinkering with my favorite plants.