help me im breeding

[big beano]

hi there i want to start breeding and need advice on the best ways of doing thsi should i buy new seeds for the males and try to breed from them with my clones or shall grow a few different crops and choose from them. Also can i use the pollen from my hermi white widow and try to breed this with my other plants ? please help:(

[oldsanclem]

Find a book breeding look at the factors Xxx-ZXxx
Working with hemi seed is a bad start and after a few years or decades may or may not go some place.
Breeding you want to start with known factors
1. is it a stable strain
2 what does it produce
a does it stay stable over years
b is it pron to problmes , turning hermi, blooming time, growing speed, space between nodes, easy to clone, are clones stable over time, prone to bugs, type of growing smell
c Is it a good high
d what is the grams/watt/month data
e will produce a good product over gererations
Just for starters I figure it takes about 1 year, just to get a strain figured out.
You have 10 seeds 5 are male and 5 female, which one of the seeds produced the best product. My net the last time was 2 good seeds, in a triple blind test.
3 people test free pot , that way the data , is not swayed by price or what ever.
Note in 30 years of growing I have never!! had one (1) person that did not say there pot was better than mine. 50% of the time they bought there own pot.
Best of luck you need it, trying to save some dumb ass hermi seed/pollen/etc:beatdeadhorse::beatdeadhorse:.

[the image reaper]

don't use hermaphrodites in breeding ... it introduces itself into every subsequent generation forever ... hermie = BAD :smokin:

[stinkyattic]

Buy Greg Green's 'Cannabis Breeder's Bible'.

Don't use herms, buy seeds from solid, stable IBLs to breed with - pure Afghans, Skunk 1, Federation's Island Sweet Skunk, Matanuska Thunderfuck, etc if you can find these. Your males should be plants of good lineage and chosen for outstanding plant STRUCTURE and HARDINESS.

Your females, you get to choose what is most important to you.
Personally, I also look closely at plants structure and hardiness in my breeder girls, and then look at aroma, flowering time, and bud structure.

Good luck! It's a fun hobby.

[davejohnwright]

Good info here The Cannabis Cultivation GrowFAQ - The Internet Hub for Marijuana Cultivation - Breeding (http://www.growfaq.net/index.php?action=show&cat=21)

[Weed4Life]

So I guess I just messed up when I pollenated my females with a hermie. Atleast I have 3 clones going from two good females and next moth I will place another order for some WW and another strain.
So does that mean my plants from my hermie seeds are more likely to be hermies? Thanks everyone.

[stinkyattic]

yeah you are likely to get herms under your growing conditions since you got them on this round.

if you like those females a lot, now you just have to find a sexy male!

[Weed4Life]

Thats fine, I might keep a few seeds just cause, but yeah your right about needing to find a sexy male(plant)lol.

[oldsanclem]

The best thing to do with any herme straing, of any kind is to feed it to a bird that lives indoors. That way it will not start growing in the wild and distroy other peoples good crops.
I would bet that more pot is distroyed by bad pollen all over the place.
The best one was "I did not want to kill it because it had balls"
Note this not a joke , but for real, believe it or not.

[the image reaper]

The best thing to do with any herme straing, of any kind is to feed it to a bird that lives indoors. That way it will not start growing in the wild and distroy other peoples good crops.
I would bet that more pot is distroyed by bad pollen all over the place.
The best one was "I did not want to kill it because it had balls"
Note this not a joke , but for real, believe it or not.

agreed :thumbsup: