if u grow out a mother n then plant her seeds to see her offsprings traits how would you preserve that mother wouldn't that mean she had already been thru one bud cycle?
Yes that female would have been thru one bud cycle already .You can reveg her right after harvest so you keep her alive and in vegative stage so you have the genetics alive till you finish testing the progeny . But revegging doesn't always work .
When breeding you basically work in a different way , work with copies.
You need to have a veg/grow room and a flower/budding room going at the same time.
But lets start take it all from the beginning so you can understand things .
One mother plant can be a female seedplant or a female clone ( taken/cut from a mother seed plant) . Motherplants are kept in a vegative state (18/6 or 24/0 lighting) and exist so we can have available these genetics for bud production and keep them for backup for future use . Motherplants are used to provide us with cuttings/clones that we veg a bit and then we flower or put straight in flower. If you grow a garden full of the same clones its easier to control as all plants are the same , have same needs , and all grow in uniform way plus all provide us with the smoke we selected it for.
Now lets say you buy a pack of seeds , say SSH. You start 3 seeds , veg em under 18/6 lighting for 1 month (or as long as you like) having them labeled , #1,#2,#3
While still in veg (grow mode) you take a cutting/clone from each , label them to so you know from which seedplant each clone is and put the labeled cuttings in a mother/father room where the lighting is always 18/6-veg mode . All 3 cuttings/clones are potential mother/fatherplants.
Then put the 1 month vegged seedplants in flowering mode (aka bud cycle - 12/12 lighting in the flower room).
The plants will show sex . lets say you get 2 females and 1 male. Note:If you leave the male in the flower room it will throw pollen from the male flowers n pollinate the 2 females , so you get seeds.
You now know which seedplants and which cuttings are males n females (labeling).You may want to keep all 3 clones or just the 2 females at this point.(If you're not interested in using the males/ you just toss them.) Lets say you keep both male n female clones cause you wanna make some seeds and you wanna test the offsprings and have the males backed up for future seed production , like breeders do.
You finish flowering of the female seedplants , harvest and sample the smoke. Say you like the overall looks n smoke from the one girl a lot and the other doesn't appeal to you at all .Since you pollinated both flowering female seedplants you ll have seeds in both females these are SSHxSSH.
In your mother room you still have the 2 females clones n 2 male clones and since you didn't like the one of the two females you just throw the respectful cutting away. You're left with the 1 male cutting n the female cutting from the female seedplant you liked.These are your parent stock now ,one motherplant n one fatherplant for future seed production .
and as L33t said in his reply to my ?'s "I ve heard of others that have revegged and re-flowered for up to 4-5 times then the plant gets weak n dies.Depends on strain some may even not reveg after the first flowering period is over. yield is reduced after 2 or 3 time usually"
so does that mean that if i get a mother i love n she ends up not bein able to reveg i won't b able to keep her as a mother ?
Yes, you 'd lose her genetics.
wen do the seeds show up during the females bud cylce?
Depends on when exactly you pollinate. Meaning it depends on when the males throw their pollen . You can have them isolated in a second flowering room and allow em to pollinate the plant at a specific stage.The earlier you pollinate the less seeds usually as there are less female flowers on the females to get pollinated. But one must let the pollination happen at the latest 4.5-5 weeks before harvest time so the seeds have enough time to develop.
i really jus need to find a list that explain from seed the cycles it will go thru n wat things happen wen sry for my unintellegence in the subject haha again ty all for all your help
Well hope this helps a bit but Im only covering some basics and by far all you d like to know and need to know. You need to do alot of research , hopefully there are lots of threads and articles online to read. So read a lot first and then see if you have any Q and well try to help u as we can if thers something you need clarification with.Read the FAQs on canna sites like Thcfarmer.com:
http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/vbarticles.php lots of good info
