@thunderfudge what do you look for in a male?
as a keeper for pollen chucking? im new granted but im really good at noticing difference in plants. i like to look at shit. hah.. i just have to learn what to look for.
chris.
it kind of depends on where you're planning to go with him.
for standard outcrossing.....
the first few are stature and smell,followed by its stability,or ability to not flower in long light periods.if they pass those 3, I move on to Trichrome coverage,size of flower clusters,and make sure the smell is there.
once I have a few selected under those criterias I'll move them into full flower and make sure they're 100% male by fully flowering them.that will show u any leave hermie traits ie pistils late in flower.
after that the clone is neglected in a solo cup for the next 2 months to make sure he can regenerate foliage without fully flowering in a vegetative state.
after that he gets the green light.
now for f gens.it's all the above,plus you're searching for desired traits you wish the line to contain in the future while also weeding out what isn't desired from the past.
the super lemon haze from GHS was a cut I'd had for 7-8 years.it had a nice lemon skunk smell/taste with a SSH rack/stature to it.for preservation I outcrossed it to the 08 chem line,which gave me a big plant with loose node spacing,but it retained that lemon honey smell/flavor.the flower structure wasn't triangulated like the slh,but was dead on otherwise.I just had to modify the rounded chem nugs she threw.
at that point I popped those seeds(slh x uc08) and looked for a male with the lemon honey smell,with triangulated flower clusters,and the thin hazy leaves.
I crossed those 2 which put me at SLH BX1.The next step would be making SLH BX1 f2s and eliminating any wider chem leaves, gassy phenos,and indica traits by enforcing those desired traits with a male who possesses all those said desired traits.
that's where we are now.the SLH BX1 F2 tent will contain the 2 best examples of the original mother in male form,and 1 female who meets all criteria.that should give us a good pool of similar genotypes to bottleneck further.
