Beguiner cuestion: Is a male? Pic Atached

[Next door girl]

Hi, Its my first time I do this kind of cultivation, Just to be shure, This picture is a male plant? I apreciate your help.

Next door girl Reviewed by Next door girl on 08-24-2004. Beguiner cuestion: Is a male? Pic Atached Hi, Its my first time I do this kind of cultivation, Just to be shure, This picture is a male plant? I apreciate your help. :D Rating: 5

[JustANewbieGrower]

yuh.. from what it looks it has some balls hanging from him.. i bet he's hung like a horse too! kidding.. it's male.. unless otherwise im wrong.. but doubtful.. it has genitals

[Next door girl]

Tank you for your advise, I will keep Him because its an F1 and I want new seeds..

"Balls=Male" LOL, easy way to explain and lern..

[JustANewbieGrower]

indeed.. and if it were female you'd see some peach fuzz :-P

and since you're keeping him i ohpe you don't have any other plants around.. specially females.. wouldn't want em going at it with out a rubber and making more and more babies
keep up the good word though

[Mole2k4]

Boy.
no doubt about it, i got 3 in my grow room, tomorrow those bastards are either:
Hash
Canna butter
or something else.

[kondor]

I will keep Him because its an F1 and I want new seeds

So you do understand that because it is F1 that the children wont be the same?
F1 is basically another way of saying a first cross (first filial generation), a first cross isnt stable.
Ive tried for the last few mins to come up with a simple explaination of Mendles Second Law. But in its simplest form,
F1 isnt a pure breed, but it is made from crossing 2 pure breeds together.
Lets say the male parent had the trait "TT" and the female had the trait "tt"
when they made the F1 they knew all the seeds would be "Tt" or "tT" (which is the same) as this is the only result, half from mum, and half from dad.
So F1 is 100% "Tt"
Now when you make F2's you get
25% "TT" (just like grandad)
25% "tt" (just like grandma)
50% "Tt" (just like the F1s)

So as you can see, I hope, F1s are usually thought of as unstable and at the end of the breeding spectrum.

But, and this is a big But, just because you will only get 50% F1 seeds from breeding two F1s it dosent mean you shouldnt do it.
It does mean that rather than just getting you F1 variety you DO also get two pure breeds too!
you dont know which ones which untill you have grown them, but you can probably bet they were both good pure breeds for someone to make the F1 in the first place.

And now my head hurts

[llamaman666]

But what if you brred two of the same F1 plants? this would seem to make a stable breed. I mite be rong, I have only grown, not made seeds!

[dylan]

over time, with selective breeding, and more plants than two. you could keep selectively imbreed until you have stableized your own cross. imbreeding is essential for stableizing a strain. just like dog breeding, thats how they produce plants or anything else that will seem like clones of others. you must be carefull not to breed without a goal in mind ahead of time. also male and female plants will provide diff. traits to their offspring. for ex. females usualy provide the smell & taste, but males usualy determin the amount of smell & taste. so a very skunky male crossed with a faintly mango flavored female would probably throught mostly very mango flavored plants. the best thing about plants is if you got the time you can get fast results indoors.

[Sinsemilla Jones]

Yep, male.

If you end up with seeds you don't want to breed, just eat 'em.
Best source of complete protein and no mad cow!

[Next door girl]

Hi dylan:
I have 11 plants, the picture is of the first plant that show flowers, now I know I have a male an 10 more plants that havent show flowers, I put pics of the ohter plants in another post.
I Am ver hapy with your advise and coments.

over time, with selective breeding, and more plants than two. you could keep selectively imbreed until you have stableized your own cross. imbreeding is essential for stableizing a strain. just like dog breeding, thats how they produce plants or anything else that will seem like clones of others. you must be carefull not to breed without a goal in mind ahead of time. also male and female plants will provide diff. traits to their offspring. for ex. females usualy provide the smell & taste, but males usualy determin the amount of smell & taste. so a very skunky male crossed with a faintly mango flavored female would probably throught mostly very mango flavored plants. the best thing about plants is if you got the time you can get fast results indoors.