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acrid

acrid

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I'm no expert or anything but I'm doing a little science project over here breeding cannabis.
A lot of my knowledge is the the grey area to say the least so any input is welcome, even sabotage ;)
Say I took two IBL's and made an F1, is it better to bring it right back to one of the parents siblings or
take it to F3-4 first?
 
acrid said:
I'm no expert or anything but I'm doing a little science project over here breeding cannabis.
A lot of my knowledge is the the grey area to say the least so any input is welcome, even sabotage ;)
Say I took two IBL's and made an F1, is it better to bring it right back to one of the parents siblings or
take it to F3-4 first?
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It would depend on your goal and what your looking for. If you take it to f4/f5 for instance take a f4/f5 male and you crossed that back to the f1 it should work more like a f1 but within your selections an the genetics. Were as f1 x f1 will give you f2 wich will give you a reshuffle of the genetics .
 
Not really such a thing as 2 IBL's.
The only true IBL is Skunk 1.
Everything else is a hybrid (rare) or poly hybrid (most every strain you'll see).
You're going to get a wide smattering of phenos most likely no matter which way you go, some resembling 1 parent, some the other, and then random leanings in each direction.
If you plant enough...
You have to get choosey and select for whatever trait and then pursue that.
 
Lots of IBL's. Any strain that goes through 20+ iterations. I believe Shanti (one of the very few breeders) possesses homozygous plants in many of his offerings including the Nordle, Shit, Ortega, Mango lines.
An amateur myself, in breeding isn't it about what you are trying to add or subtract- to improve? No sense in re-creating the wheel if you don't have to. It is understood that the best way to generate a clone mother is through selection of a large population of F1's. If you are able to isolate a particular phenotype that achieves the characteristics you are looking for in your F1's why go further? Get to cloning. On the other hand it may come from a large population of F2's within the gene populations you have selected. In which case as @#NightMare# said, "What are you looking for?"
IMO, the beauty of MNS seeds and the stability they offer is that a lot of the work has already been done to provide a good basis for the projects you speak of. Good hunting.

"...bless all the hands that did the work and continue to do the work of spreading genetic biodiversity. We at MNS get it to a level and you guys go on with the job to tweak it according to personal trait selection....well done to all." ~Shantibaba

mu
 
musashi said:
"What are you looking for?"

"...bless all the hands that did the work and continue to do the work of spreading genetic biodiversity. We at MNS get it to a level and you guys go on with the job to tweak it according to personal trait selection....well done to all." ~Shantibaba

mu
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I believe I'll know what it is when I come across it.
Not really going into this with an end game in sight, except maybe for the fun of it.
That being said I've stopped trying to have my cake and eat it too in the sense that
to grow for commercial purposes ie. cloning F1's etc is a conflict of interest.
I'm not willing to sacrifice what makes it special in the name of ROI. if that's your thing fill yer boots!
Just not for me. What brought me into this breeding project is when I realized the best way to preserve
those 'special' phenos is just by letting nature do it's thing (with a little help). Feminizing, tissue culture, grafting etc
all a waste of intention sheesh. I read somewhere the simplest solution is the best solution simply because it's simple.
 
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