Thatoneguyyouknow_
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Hey Thato.....
Definitely appreciate the information you spit out!! Lotta shit to learn in this lil hobby we have!!!!!
You mentioned clones flowering faster than from seed.....hands down.....153% correct!!!! Yeah, I love sativa, but I'lla indy early to get my fix....
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There can be only one..........and it's not a flower.......and I was gonna post it when the shit was hitting the fan a couple pages ago........ but I thought, too soon....
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shit wasnt hitting the fan, that guy just hardcore rubbed the the wrong way on my first couple interractions with him in the forum-lands, so i was flapping my lips and waving my arms to chase him out of my journal because i dont like him, and dont want him here.
when he popped up in my journal, i assume knowing my pet peave on the fast photo thing from other posts ive made about it in the past, to pipe up on it, when i was very obviously side-stepping the question, i decided to chase the guy off. its my space, and i dont want him here
He's not wrong, thats exactly what a "fast photo" plant is as labeled from most modern breeders. I just consider it a deceptive, lazy, marketing gimmick. I have photos that finish that fast outdoors, and i can also reveg them and they fully revert etc. And If auto pollen hits one of them, or if someone ive shared the DNA with chooses to cross a "fast photo" into it i wont be absolutely guaranteed a bunch of genetically defunct abominations first go, some may actually be usable long term still.
And if someone ive shared the dna with hits the plants with a fast photo, chances are theyll have mostly normal photos afterward as a result, and not be stuck wondering "wtf happened" and then get scared away from making your own seeds, like happens all the time.
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i also want to point out, that if you pollenate a stable female photoperiod plant with ruderalis, a plant that you KNOW will reveg and revert fine with a ruderalis male, and you pop 10,000 seeds of that cross.... If one single plant out of those seeds, a single one, will not reveg or shows any sign of ruderalis traits, the trait is not a recessive one.
Recessive traits also mutate into dominant ones if the right "playground" so to speak is available, and many *expressions* that are recessive allele set in origin, can also be expressions from totally unrelated dominant allele sets. And theres no way to predict ANY of this because the new sources of novel allele sets comes through mutagenic influence, the same thing that can manipulate the expressions of any chromosome based genetic expression. And if anyone wants to look into the toxic and polluted history of the Volga river water shed near Kazakhstan and Ukraine, be my guest. I dont think its a coincidence some kinda funky mutated plant expressions comes from one of the most chemically polluted regions on earth since the 1800s.
ive personally made a true photo/auto cross (even if accidental) where the autoflowing trait, although not heavily expressed, was absolutely dominant enough in nature for me to strongly recommend other growers be careful about mixing their lineages, and tell new growers its a dominant trait. May not seem to be when youre trying to breed a 100-150 day plant. But if the ruderalis makes its way in, and you are a clone grower thats hunts your own seeds to grow unique and consistent flower from clones and sometimes find yourself revegging test phenos, not a stable fem seed buyer that just pops another one... it starts to not seem so recessive anymore. it literally creeps its way in, with you under a false sense of security, and then it starts fuckin shit up and spreading disappointment and disheartenment. Thats kinda insidious
the only reason "fast photos" even exist is their high niche profitability and how quickly you can crank new ones out. It takes a long time to workout a stable, reliable truly fast photoperiod phenotype in seed, and you have to be very mindful of your crosses, and most paths will be dead ends and you end up perusing a different one, beecause the only tru fast photos, are F1 hybrid vigor phenotypes.. "Fast photos" are a shortcut to profit around this hurdle at the cost of genetic robustness and you have to be willing to lie to your consumer to even call them fast photoperiod plants imo.
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