pacificdunes74
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There are some great threads on breeding here at the farm! I just recently pheno searched for males with my desired veg needs and for smell and flower structure...then next round ill add flowering time and internode spaceI have been growing weed for 18 years and the males have always been killed the second they showed there self. I have a 3 Females of Alien Bubba and 15 Alien OG. I have 7 males of Alien Bubba and 3 of the Alien OG. I am thinking of crossing the Alien OG with Alien Bubba and vice versa. What makes a good male. None are showing pollen yet and all are very healthy and all are just about the same size and all are the same age. Everything was popped at the same time. How do I choose the males to use? I have created a air tight room to pollinate but just don't know when or what plants to use? Thanks for any help I can get.
Great point the male I chose up top grew along side 5 sisters that displayed desireable traitsWit many breeders here you'd think these kind of threads would attract atleast a few of them! I'm a smell, structure, and ease of growth 1st kinda guy but I mainly try to pick based on the female and what she could use or is lacking, like denser or longer nodes, earlier flowering, resins, etc!
The proof is in the pudding, you use a male and you really have no idea how the alleles will mix from the traits the male has and you don't know how HE is dominate or anything until his progeny is grown out to visually witness the results.With so many breeders here you'd think these kind of threads would attract atleast a few of them! I'm a smell, structure, and ease of growth 1st kinda guy but I mainly try to pick based on the female and what she could use or is lacking, like denser or longer nodes, earlier flowering, resins, etc!
That's kinda a new age thing but yes, cbd & thc % testing would give you some insight to the prospective male. Just because the male has high cbd doesn't mean it will pass the way you want but it's better than being blind, I agree. It's really new though and all the varieties that we have known have not utilized this testing. The CBD strains I've tried that have utilized this testing through the labs has been a letdown, imo...ac/dc and the like.//You can always test the males first for thc and other chemicals you want to be expressed I'm the next gen. I think that is the best way to go instead of smell or looks.
The proof is in the pudding, you use a male and you really have no idea how the alleles will mix from the traits the male has and you don't know how HE is dominate or anything until his progeny is grown out to visually witness the results.
You can pick a male by smell, size & structure, coloration, veination, flower time, flower/sex appeal...list goes on. You can't know what the male will truly bring to the children til you grow the children out, imo
Also, fwiw, I've smelled thousands of seedlings and some of the stankiest seedlings have produced average flowers with no real odor and some of the non smelliest plants have produced the best/stinkiest flowers I've seen. So, I feel you can't know and your mainly guessing until you have used the male on multiple female genotypes and seen the result. Picking a male is like asking me to pick your car out; I can tell you what I look for and like but until you drive it you won't have any true first person information on a question your asking...
Flowering multiple males to completion will atleast give you a lil more information to select from and show you some more traits the male is exhibiting.
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