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The seeds will be regular seeds. If you want to bx; take a clone of the mother and breed it back to a male offspring. Or you can freeze pollen from a male and use it to pollinate it's daughters.Hello, Everyone.
Please understand up front that I just started growing last year. So far, so good. I've had two pretty good harvests...and managed to not kill any plants. I'd like to try my hand at breeding. I realize I haven't been growing for long, but I have a reason this is so important to me.
My 3-month old granddaughter died earlier this month. I'd like to create a strain in her honor...to fill people with as much joy and happiness as she gave me.
I've been doing a lot of research, and think I mildly understand the process. But, if any of you could help me out with correction and advice, I'd sincerely appreciate it. I plan to put as much time and resources at this as I need to. What (I think) I've learned so far:
1. Start with regular seeds. Once I'm able to tell, separate the males from the female plants.
2. Harvest the pollen from the male plants.
3. Use that pollen to "impregnate (?)" female plants of the strain I'd like to cross with the male plants.
4. Harvest the seeds from those female plants.
This is where I'm lost.
Will the seeds I harvest from the female plants be regular seeds? What do I do with them?
Do I need to repeat steps one through four? How many times?
I've read some articles discussing "Cross Backing," and I think I understand it, sort of...but I'm hoping someone (I'm no horticulture expert) can explain this process to me in novice / layman's terms.
Also, can anyone suggest a website(s), blog or book(s)?
Thanks to you all. I appreciate your help.
I'm going to dedicate my all to this project. My granddaughter meant the world to me.
Chef
You'll need to back cross not cross back, LoL. And the way I've always under it is if your just want to just breed a male plant to a female plant then you just have to have them in the same room throughout flower, or like your talking about administer your own pollen.. She'll seed up just fine on her own... But if your wanting to make those seeds feminized then you'll have to do other things... The thing about strains is that once you start mixing them and with what mixes are already mixed you start getting into the deep end of the water.. people usually end up after breeding several times per strain or introducing a newer strain into the mix that after a point it starts degrading... Faults start showing up the farther away from stable... But eventually to get those things tied down your going to need a good F1/S1 of your cross or I guess even reversing it back to a dominant sativa or indica.... Pretty much everything is all hybrid now days tho.... People love to mix and match make their own and eventually all the oldies and the greats that helped people accomplish all these newer 10 gen crosses end up getting lost or get left on a shelf so long they aren't viable any longer.. like usual in search of the better all the time we humans usually destroy everything else to get it in the long run...Hello, Everyone.
Please understand up front that I just started growing last year. So far, so good. I've had two pretty good harvests...and managed to not kill any plants. I'd like to try my hand at breeding. I realize I haven't been growing for long, but I have a reason this is so important to me.
My 3-month old granddaughter died earlier this month. I'd like to create a strain in her honor...to fill people with as much joy and happiness as she gave me.
I've been doing a lot of research, and think I mildly understand the process. But, if any of you could help me out with correction and advice, I'd sincerely appreciate it. I plan to put as much time and resources at this as I need to. What (I think) I've learned so far:
1. Start with regular seeds. Once I'm able to tell, separate the males from the female plants.
2. Harvest the pollen from the male plants.
3. Use that pollen to "impregnate (?)" female plants of the strain I'd like to cross with the male plants.
4. Harvest the seeds from those female plants.
This is where I'm lost.
Will the seeds I harvest from the female plants be regular seeds? What do I do with them?
Do I need to repeat steps one through four? How many times?
I've read some articles discussing "Cross Backing," and I think I understand it, sort of...but I'm hoping someone (I'm no horticulture expert) can explain this process to me in novice / layman's terms.
Also, can anyone suggest a website(s), blog or book(s)?
Thanks to you all. I appreciate your help.
I'm going to dedicate my all to this project. My granddaughter meant the world to me.
Chef
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