- Rate of Maturity
- Physical appearance
- Strength
- Resistance to hermaphrodism
In order for you to prevent the passing of the weak traits of the male plant on to its progeny, those who show poor qualities should be culled at once. Males also have an observable scent and floral structure but the importance of these traits fail in comparison to the ones listed above.
The use of professional scientific laboratory equipment is the only reliable way to measure the potency of the male plants most specially the potency difference between individual males in a group. There are still no proofs to conclude that that the most potent male in a cluster apparently produces the stronger and effective woman progeny. However by intuition, it seems that this is the case. This is until now a major dilemma to overcome in proving the male plant’s potency.
The potency of the male plant is not that important at all. What is really important is the growing of males for marijuana propagation. The significance of male plant lies entirely on the traits it consistently passes on to his daughters. It is then unnecessary to establish the male individual among a group of the potential pollen donors with the greatest potency.
What is more important is to establish the female progeny of each of the male to establish the potency of each male in the group.
The quality of the controlled breeding of similar female seed twin, coming from each one of the donor, is how male cannabis individuals can be graded. This isolates the power of the male by holding steady the power of the female on each cross. Upon getting the results of the seeds in each clone they are then grown and the progeny is measured to identify which of the crosses was the most successful.
When we have already identified which of the group has the most desirable female progeny, then we could possibly identify the male responsible for it as the most valuable. With the fact that male can be kept in a vegetative state just like the female plants, it is at this point that they can be called “dads”. Clones from the identified favorable male plants can be flowered as needed along with the breeding female or females when the seeds are needed.
Generally, we just need about 10 male plants to be evaluated and observed after culling all those with distinct defects. Breeding with larger number of individuals is always preferable as genetics is statistically always a game of trial and error.
If you follow the above technique then you can actually identify or pin point the ONE male in their small group who prove to be the most potent in the real essence of the male potency.
