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These types of things are what I'm trying to consider in my breeding goals, however, I don't know where to begin and what to shoot for. Should one cross to bring out recessive traits in hopes of stumbling upon something "new", should I cross to incorporate a dominant trait from one stable strain to another a different stable strain, should I cross existing "elite" hybrids to create "newer" hybrids, should I cross "elite" hybrids to different landrace strains for whatever reason, or what?!?!! Makes my head spin.
LOVE the convo though guys. Keep it going, very intriguing.
to bring out a recessive trait, ya would need to cross a plant with that recessive trait, with another plant with the same recessive trait. then with the offspring that express the recessive trait, ya would cross it back with one of the parents
as for dominant traits, not all of them are compatible. to have two dominant traits expressed requires codominance, otherwise, one will be expressed at the cost of the other.
I just had to point out that once offspring show a trait controlled by a single recessive allele (which would be 1/4 of the offspring where both parents are carriers) you don't need to stabilise by crossing back to the parents, if you breed two offspring that show the recessive gene *bingo* you automatically have all recessive alleles in the next generation.
If instead you back cross it to a parent and you only get 1/2 the offspring that show the recessive gene and 1/2 that are just carriers of it.
So a back-cross is not usually needed in that sort of situation.
Also dominance isn't absolute, for instance "Short day" (<12 hours = start flowering) is dominant over both "Super-Auto" (the Flash Seeds allele, which they use in some but not all of their plants) and the "normal" auto (LowRyder descended allele). The Super-Auto allele however, while being recessive compared to "short day" dominates the lowryder allele.
I'm not disagreeing with you I just wanted to clarify things :p
yep yer right bro, crossin the offspring that express the traits would there ya there faster.
as for the dominance thing, that's why i mentioned codominance, which is what yer talkin about. essentially varyin degrees of dominance of alleles on a single locus.
neverbreak
Codominance isn't the same as relative dominance, Co-Dominance would be a situation where both are expressed when present together or where a heterozygous genotype leads to a phenotype different to what would be expressed were it homozygous for either.
generally speaking most of the flowering triggers are dominant, there's a few of the older "semi-autos" which I'm not so clear about but the most common forms of the alleles I was talking about don't co-dominate
shortday:shortday = short day
short day:superauto = short day
shortday:lowryder = short day
superauto:superauto = super auto
superauto:lowryder = super auto
lowryder:lowryder = auto
Generally speaking these are all just dominance relationships or homozygousity
That said I've heard there are some forms of "short day" that can co-dominate with at least some auto alleles meaning you have a plant that slowly flowers under long days but can be sped up by shortening light... but no one wants that lol it has niether set of benefits :-S
to have two dominant traits expressed requires codominance, otherwise, one will be expressed at the cost of the other.
ah right, i see the context in what yer were talkin about dominance. yer right, none of those are codominant traits. but that brings me back to my original point:
that is, one allele will always act as the recessive, unless both are codominant.
either way, i'm sure i'm agreein with ya here. :p
neverbreak
You guys are using, quite possibly, the wrong genetic logic. There may be a load of co-dom and/or co-recessive traits. And for the most part unless ine used fairly stable lines it a ballpark crap shoot. Just a little better than a random guess.
I don't not have equipmentto complete a genetic sequence and until then I can only use what is observered.
As I read through the last coments its good to see there is a intelligent discussion happening here.
Peace
If we see webbed we throw them out shit strain and Wally is a wally got busted with thousands and never done a minute.Well ABC I really don't know much about, what I do know is CC magazine and Marc Emery magazine distributed a load of seeds in ~2001 but no one seems to have them anymore, or if they do they won't share.
I can see why, they want them to stay secret and unrecogniseable... but I'm going to keep making lots of noise about them until I get them :)
It comes from Nimbin or at least somewhere in Australia between Sydney and the blue mountains, it's meant to be a bit bad quality in terms of bud but very hard to recognise.
I don't know how the trait inherits but I think it's controlled by at least one or more recessive alleles.
Webbed strains are really simple, it's controlled by a recessive allele, you cross it to a plant (making an F1 generation) you breed those plants you made together (making an F2 generation) and in that generation you'll have 25% webbed plants, then you just do careful backcrossing to whatever strain you started with and in a few generations you can make you favourite strain (whatever that is) webbed.
Wallyduck was really known for ducksfoot but can't do a seed release atm apparently. His are really nice plants though.
That's a picture of "Indian Sommer" by Kaly seeds, they're mostly quite cheap but some of their plants are a bit... hit and miss? like you get some very weird looking plants from them, with variegation or really skinny and low yielding (sometimes also an intersex plant or two) but they usually send extra seeds with their orders and the weird plants can be quite cool.
The only sad thing is they believe (or at least claim to believe) that webbed plants are an interspecies hybrid, which they're definately not.
I've been working landrace sativa's and indica's for a couple of years now doing breeding. Most unworked cultivars start out with thc in the low to mid-teens. The magic happens when you cross it with Haze or Kush. The F1 thc level goes up sometimes to the low to mid 20's. You can get thc up even higher by backcrossing.So I'm not hugely into the genetics of marijuana and breeding quite yet, and I haven't taken the time to really understand all of its evolution, however, I do find it all fascinating. I've always been intrigued by its origins and how it has developed into the little thc-filled plant that it is today. Well, yesterday, I happened to stumble upon this website that has a picture of all the original landrace strains - http://smokereports.com/strainreports/1928/Landraces - and it got me thinking about a couple of things.
#1 Are any of the strains still around today in their pure form? I'm guessing not many, if any at all, would be around. And if they are, I'm guessing those folks either don't know they have them, ie. old stoner with some seeds from the '60s who keeps them as mementos of his crazy past, or they aren't getting off them for all the gold in the world.
#2 If one was to acquire several, or impossibly, all of them, could you recreate the great hybrids and crosses that have emerged through the decades? For instance, could you start with some of the originals and then cross them to make the first generation hybrids that we've all heard of like Skunk and Maui Wowi, etc. and then recreate the second generations like White Widow, Bubba Kush, Blueberry, etc., all the way up to the good strains of today?
Look, we all know there is a huge improbability and uncertainty when acquiring new strains and seeds, even with so many respected breeders out there. Who truly knows if they are getting the exact strain they think they are, or if that strain has been stabilized, or if that strain's lineage is what it's supposed to be??? Even with the most respected breeders, how do you truly know you're getting what you think, and that they really do have the original cut of hells angels og or nepalese kush? You don't. There simply aren't paper trails of certified breeds or entire documented works by breeders, as these would have obviously been stupid to keep as it would have given police a guaranteed indictment.
I've always thought if and when I do get into breeding, I'd want to acquire the oldest of possible strains, not for smoking purposes, but for purposes of recreating traditional gems and ensuring I have the most stable and purest of genetics. Obviously the strains of way back were awful THC wise, with a landrace strain probably not likely to hit double digit THC-percentage, while strains of today have no trouble reaching the upper-20s to lower-30s.
Anyone else ever had these thoughts, or even know if such a thing is possible???
Except thc content doesn't tell the story,the best days for potent weed were before prohibition.Idk about that. I have marijuana books from the 70s in which theu tested marijuana for thc and cbd profiles. They tested for several different cannibinoids. Tests clearly showed mj of the time could hardly achieve 10% thc. Selective breeding through the years has undoubtedly bolstered thc percentages. This isn't really even debatable as far as I know.
Researches are still discovering unknown cannabinoids. THCP, which is 30x stronger than THC wasn't discovered until 2 years ago. Not surprised to hear its found mostly in equatorial sativas.THC numbers don’t matter unless they are on the hemp concentrations. This 36% GMO that I’m hitting is really not that impressive. Pre legal weed was better.
Yeah I recently ordered some landrace sativa seeds from Africa known for psychedelic effects. I’m so tired of all this hybrid weed. I don’t care if it takes four months to flower/finish. It’ll be worth it.Researches are still discovering unknown cannabinoids. THCP, which is 30x stronger than THC wasn't discovered until 2 years ago. Not surprised to hear its found mostly in equatorial sativas.
If its anything like my landrace Colombian, the only thing its good for indoors is breeding. I still have Mexican and Colombian landraces that I'll probably never grow again.Yeah I recently ordered some landrace sativa seeds from Africa known for psychedelic effects. I’m so tired of all this hybrid weed. I don’t care if it takes four months to flower/finish. It’ll be worth it.
How so? Did they not grow well indoors?If its anything like my landrace Colombian, the only thing its good for indoors is breeding. I still have Mexican and Colombian landraces that I'll probably never grow again.
THC numbers don’t matter unless they are on the hemp concentrations. This 36% GMO that I’m hitting is really not that impressive.
The Colombian I was growing had fluffy buds outside/ inside. The smell was lemon/ citrus. I crossed it with Redbud. I need to do a pheno hunt. I never popped any. I’m growing Alcapoco Gold right now. The buds are tight. EOM I’ll harvest it.If its anything like my landrace Colombian, the only thing its good for indoors is breeding. I still have Mexican and Colombian landraces that I'll probably never grow again.
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