Does breeder growing style effect seeds success?

GrassBurner

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Hey hows it going, just a random stoner thought. Does anyone have any experience with a correlation between breeder's growing style and grower's plant success? For instance, if a breeder grows their plants organically, are the seeds they produce going to be more successful and less problematic in an organic style grow? Same for if a breeder is using soil and nutes, hydro, etc...
You think it would be beneficial to find breeders that grow in a similar style to you, for reaching full plant potential?
 

Richard Drysift

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Not really, Subcools strains are bred organically yet people still grow them well with nutes in a hydro setup. I do think that strains that have been bred only in organic soil should probably be grown the same way but that is a personal preference rather than a rule for success.
 

mistergrafik

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I was thinking this the other week actually. Popping some new beans couldn't figure out why I was having issues and the same exact question floated through my head. I can see the theory!
 

93OG

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I think it makes a difference. Every breaded has their grow style, lighting preference, temp and humidity ideals. They select the winner plants to breed with under those conditions. We know environment has a big effect on plants. I would think that the closer to the breeders conditions you can get the more the plant will resemble what the breeder intended. That not at all to say that is the very best those genes can be though and that you can’t grow it other ways and get great results. Also if an organic grower runs strains from a hydro breeder I could see it being more prone to deficiencies. Just my opinion
 

ilovereggae

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I agree that organic vs synthetic might not be a huge factor, but I think one thing that people overlook is climate.

Strains do get climatized to a certain region, especially if thru crosses or selection of plants for the breeders local environment. We all know a super tight node interval indica probably won't due well in a tropical area and will have mold or budrot issues, and vice versa with sativas since they won't finish fast enough outdoors far enough north. if you took seeds from one place and tried to grow it in the other it probably will have other differences in growth as well, and will probably be stressed at first.

If we then apply that same logic to outdoor vs indoor growing, I think this is why sometimes ppl see signs of stress or "herms" (especially if flipping to flower before they are sexually mature) especially in polyhybrids.

One of my old heads who has sent me a lot of my genetics taught me this. He is up New England which is a very cold snowy region and he breeds his plants outdoors. He sent me seeds but explained to not flower the seed plants, and instead take clones once the plant had showed sex, and then flower the clones since this will be more adapted to my grow environment. Knock wood ive never had a problem. Dont know how anecdotal it is but works for me.
 
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