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RE: Canna-Curate School Of Cannabis Cultivation: Popping The Seeds
Great post. Growing from seed is under-rated!
Everyone should "Pheno hunt" at least once! :)
Great post. Growing from seed is under-rated!
Everyone should "Pheno hunt" at least once! :)
Definitely! With the seeds we have we need to find the strong points. Otherwise we don't really know what's going on. Almost everybody sells F1s, which are as unstable as wild outcrosses. But there are pearls to be found there for sure :)
I had my first bad Pheno this season. Two Girl Scout Cookies that are growing like snails. I planted them at the same time as my Northern Lights which is giant.
Yeah like a stomach ache! Eventually it's gonna happen to everybody :)
Yep, that's why its always best to start a couple extra but then gift the extras to friends if they all turn out good and have too many.
Happy hunting @liquid-mike. I know you will have fun with all your seeds, some may even be a challenge but there could be that pearl!
What's pheno-hunting? Just growing from seed and "weeding out" unwanted phenotypes/ traits? I am currently on a grow with 4 plants, all seeds from commerically purcahsed rec cannabis bags, so we'll see how it turns out... so far so good! Interestingly, all th eplants were female, which seems odd seeing as though they were obviously produced by plants that "hermied." Then again, perhaps this supports the idea i'd heard that claims any seeds made by a female cannabis plant will, in turn, also be female. It's complicated lol
Every cannabis seed produced by intersex individual, which pollinated itself, will produce "feminised seeds"... but they'll be female only as long as they don't herm :)
Haha right?? It's kind of a paradoxical situation, it seems. It's like... well, was it the seed which was "predisposed" to herm, or was it an environmental factor which caused the mutation?
It's an interesting question, but if we consider that genetic information cannot express itself without the environment, it's kinda moot point :) But even if you assume that plant hermed (it depends how much though) due to stress, she already expressed tendencies to herm in certain conditions. And once this trait is imprinted, it'll be passed onto the prodigy, so your chance of getting herm plants in S1 goes up significantly!