Yeah, 'vigor' is just the grower's guestamate for the plant's will to grow and reproduce. If I supercrop it, the 'vigorous' plant corrects itself or freaks it's fans into wacky positions to grab light to repair itself QUICK. A normal plant shakes it off in ~2 days, and a low vigor plant will stunt, and the stem either stays sloppy, or starts to look sick...
Vigor is a combination and function of:
Speed to flower, Plant mass gained during the stretch, if the pots go dry quicker, fans get bigger, stems thicker relative to plant mass, roots jumping out of the soil, or a big woody bonsai root early... Just a feel for how fast/big/easily the plant wants to grow.
I don't know if it is proven, and I have not grown NEAR the crosses to make an EDUCATED guess, but I would see no reason that male flower size/shape/density/speed/resin coverage/color would NOT be more likely to show in the female offspring. I am thinking that selecting for a trait (or even just observing whether or not a parental trait is passed from male to female) does not care about the plant's gender. If the trait relies on certain alleles (groups of dna commands that can ride together) to be passed, than there may well be a link between male purpleness and female resin production, or leaf mutation, or extreme vigor, or whatever. (Ex: If babies born with say blue eyes get say cleft lip more often, or whatever, you can look at both 'controlling/predetermining gene, and see if they ride on the same allele/chromosome. Simple, really. ESPECIALLY with the definition/example I gave,
lol)
Science could map a cannabis gene pretty quickly if the $$ were there. I have read that it is a relatively simple and ancient plant. If all that shit is greek to you, good. It is mental masturbation for everyone w/o a proven breeder clone that we have used in dozens of crosses, and know what does and does not pass. Then we want to start using it as a baseline for clone after selected clone, and grow the progeny...
Breeding is like outdoor growing. Lotsa planning is cool. And even essential. But shit gets crazy at 3am with sweat POURING off of you into the hole, and you just heard a bear/car/snake/coyote/person, or saw a cop lights/alien/bear/whatever. Sleeping for 30 hours the day after you put a load out in an un-prepped spot... So yeah, it's nice to think, "I'm gonna go out there, the weather will be 55 and dry, I'll have a bottle of water for me, and I'll get a bukket or 2 when I'm done digging/planting (YEAH RIGHT. Haul water after digging. Uh-huh. Sounds good beforehand...). Then I'll dig for 30 min, plant for 15, and 20 min to get water, I'll be in and out in under 90... Then it's raining, and the ranger is chillin right there where you dropped (or DIDN'T
) the plants, the dog eats 1/2 the clones on the ride there, you get to the dropped plants and there are slugs extinguishing ALL vigor, lol... Things are different with dirty fingernails.
The best way to wreck a grow is to put expectations on it. I feel like the same is true for seeds that I've made and am running. 100 wet beans later, I'm still all googly eyed - Jeepers, Wally, I shhhuuuurrrr hope she's puuuuurrrrrdyyy. He-hut, I wonder if she'll look like daddy or mommy... Then I smoke em, and the ol 80/20 rule applies...
