Lets hear some advice! Making selections
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I'll assume selecting female plants for breeding:
Have a clear and practical idea of what you want from your breeding project.
What was the point of the project? Answer that, and you'll have a good idea of what your selection criteria should be. If you're trying to pass along a particular smell, let stem rubs guide your selection. If you wanted shorter plants, cull anything that stretches more than 2× in flower. Your selection should always be guided by the purpose of the cross.
Is it just a pollen chuck between two plants you liked or thought would make a great combination? Awesome. Keep the one that best expresses the traits you wanted from both parents and has your favorite smoke. But don't forget to keep your expectations practical. If you're starting a new line that will require multiple generations and a lot of work, don't expect a final plant with improved structure, flowering time, smell, and chemotype to appear after a single cross.
Kanzeon
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Grow weird shit.
Hybrid vigor is real, and most plants these days are combinations and recombinations of GSC and Skunk 1. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's a finite amount of genetic expression that can be drawn from those pools, which are already crowded with breeders already. I can't walk down the street without 7 people trying to sell me some MAC x Runtz beans or Thin Mints clones.
There's a lot of gold in older heirloom lines like G13, Haze, Blueberry, Grapefruit, NL, Widow, and of course native cultivars from anywhere but especially Afghanistan, Thailand, Nepal, and India.
Hybrid vigor is real, and most plants these days are combinations and recombinations of GSC and Skunk 1. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's a finite amount of genetic expression that can be drawn from those pools, which are already crowded with breeders already. I can't walk down the street without 7 people trying to sell me some MAC x Runtz beans or Thin Mints clones.
There's a lot of gold in older heirloom lines like G13, Haze, Blueberry, Grapefruit, NL, Widow, and of course native cultivars from anywhere but especially Afghanistan, Thailand, Nepal, and India.
Best player available. It's good to have a plan and basic idea so you get going with the right starter matetial. Don't start with lemon if you want apple. If you told me I would be going after a purple stem pheno at the start of this year I mighta looked at ya a little cross - best player available.
pepperpicante
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@Schwaggy P is on the money! Having garden goals and in turn breeding goals is what should determine your selections.
My personal selections come down to aura, performance, personality and overall end product. I have questions for the plant to answer.
There are a few ways to look for aura even if you don't gave the eyes for it, you might have the nose for it. What is the smell bubble like, does it leave a scent trail and silliage? How does it play with your memories and do you find your self repeating sniff tests on them?
Structure is another way to define aura as well. What is the natural structure look like, how does it respond to hst and lst. Is the vigor at the tops or does it put out side branches easily? Does it have vigor?
How do the leaves pop out of the stem? How are the buds structured? If you can picture a jagged or soft bubble around the plant and its structure and look at the potential partner and see how they would match and differ you can picture how to different Genetics might interact.
The personality and vibes of the plant can be observed by how it behaves in reaction to stimulis and stresses. In the small containers it becomes apparent which ones call for water first. When the light go on or off you can see which ones are praying or already down. If you havent fed nutrients in awhile the leaves will start to turn colors at you. Some of them will change shades with the tempature as well or from.the start.
The end product is important, How does it smoke?
