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Hey kron is that a pool in your pic or am i hallucinating ?
Hey kron is that a pool in your pic or am i hallucinating ?
Thanks !! I'm going small pool shopping , that's why I was asking ....Trampoline (and small kids pool)
Thanks for simplifying it for me like that. There’s so much about heredity and genetics that still confuses me. Like How I have one type of Muscular Dystrophy (CNM-MTM), and my brother and my son have a different type of MD (Limb-Gurdle)I think flowering time would be a quantitative trait, meaning it is under the control of many different genes and would not be dominant or recessive. The dominant/recessive dichotomy really only works for qualitative traits that are under the control of one, or few, genes. The classic example of this is Mendel's peas, looking at traits like colour. In this case, the trait is controlled by a single gene and the pea can be yellow or green.
In the case of flowering time, it can be an infinite number of values within a given range, suggesting it is the result of many different genes interacting with one another (and the environment).
For qualitative traits, the offspring will generally fall between the two parents but there will be variation among them. Each generation, you would select the ones on the extreme end of the trait and over generations many of these genes would be fixed and the mean will shift in the direction of the selective pressure.
The principles here are pretty straight forward. The problem is that breeding for quantitative traits requires large numbers of plants, or extreme luck, which makes it challenging. This limitation is the main reason cannabis lacks many stable cultivars and instead relies on cloning the winners.
Thanks.Yes, it is generally more complex than the simple models they use to teach genetics. I did one of those genetic tests recently and was surprised how many simple traits they got wrong based on my DNA, showing that even in the well studies human system even simple traits are not so we'll understood nor simple.
This wasn't meant to discourage you, and it is great fun making crosses and seeing what comes out. I was simply trying to let you know that it will not be inherited in that manner so your approach may need to be adjusted or your expectations dampered.
I think the best way to try for the short flowering period would be to inbreed your line. The resulting plants may not be the best plants in general, but you may be able to fix the short flowering period.
If your goal is early finish, why not use pollen from the earliest male.My Question is this:
if I have 3 f1 Males that are (The Gift x Tangie)
and 3 females that are (Kosher x Tangie)
should I collect the Pollen from all three males, and breed them in pairs with the 3females?
Or
Collect pollen from all 3 males, mix the pollen, and pollinate all females with mixed pollin (then pheno hunt for the desired trait throughout subsequent generations)
Or
Save the Pollen from the most vigorous (The Gift x Tangie) male, and pollinate all subsequent generations with pollin from original f1 male?