i breed mine when the headlights are def showing,usally around third week flower,far as how,you just know a good stud when you see it,same with the females,the males will put out balls real quick and you want to get him with the girls before he burst inside your room,i had a pretty good scare this year and deleted all my pictures and shit,not sure if my last breed was in this thread,but let me tell ya when he ready to burst you know it just from scrambling of what to do to get him out of flower room hahahah,sometimes they even want to burst while in veg,light cycle dont mean shit to them,they want to send out some love.
what i do is grow strain ,finish and harvest it,after i take a few clones of her,when i harvest and cure,decide i like the smoke,then i start getting the clones ready for breeding,some times just the smell growth patterns,feed patterns and beauty of the plant is all it takes to decide to breed it,like i said you just know which to breed,so clones from the lady be ready for the flower tent by the time your harvest is cured and ready to smoke,if it was every thing you expected sit the tent up on porch let it rip,same with male if it is vigoriuos some bitch from word go,take clone of him,even if the clone doesnt do as well as the mac daddy the potential is all there,so thats how i roll with them,it makes no sense to me to use collide silver and other things like that for breeding,no sense at all to do one branch of the plant,deep in my mind from folks doing this over years i think is were a mess brought on the hermie outbreak,makes sense it aint natural and it is chemicals,the way i do it is a sure bet and natural,plus i just give them all pretty much away,just because no real reason,my way of passing the joint to online buddies hahahh,i keep about 50 seeds for my stash and sit on them ,my youngest boy want to learn how to grow,when he grows the hell up i will,when the WHY shit or isnt it easier this way stops,then i teach him and the stash will be his to do whatever with,shit he can smoke um if he wants,i have plenty in my younger days hahahahah.
i knew the crap going on these days was gonna happen many years ago and planned way back when to make my own,im not paying 100 to 150 bucks for seeds,aint happening,i just make a stash and roll on,head high is that,some high cotton strain no better than mine when it all does what ,gets you high lmao hahahah