Whats up all? I am new to the forums and so this is my first post. I am pretty knowledgable about the basics of growing and even some of the not so basics. I have harvested a few successful crops of great homegrown. I grew out some f1 hybrids i got through emery and also random females from some regular seeds from extraorianry seeded weed i had gathered, so its safe to say i am not too experienced with breeding but it has always been interesting to me.
Anyway thats my introduction....my question is this theoretically speaking of course. Lets say a good friend of mine has some seeds from the greatest weed he ever smoked. The only seeds he ever came across that he thought maybe saving the seeds would be worth while, they are old about 15 years or more. I know thats a long time but germination isnt out of the question. Its from hawaii so i would imagine it's probably sativa, i am not sure what to expect.
I was hoping someone with some experience could give me some input. If it was that good and any of the seeds are still viable how would you go about utilizing this strain? I figure growing it out to maturity if its fgemale and keeping clones would be the first step and if its malle storing the pollen would be first step. But what would be the most desired option...trying to cross polinate with the other siblings or crossing with another plant and than selective inbreeding?
I know about hybrid vigor and already read the faqs and it said that its good to introduce new breeding stock into a gene pool. It said to use breeding stock that had recessive genes instead of dominant which i understand but what kind of breeding stock has ressessive genes? If I had a large breeding stock of p1s sativa/indica and hybrid what would be the best kind of traights and species would be best to introduce to this population? (I am assuming its a hawaiin sativa but lets just say a hybrid that has very unique great tasting and potent phenotypes)
thanks
Anyway thats my introduction....my question is this theoretically speaking of course. Lets say a good friend of mine has some seeds from the greatest weed he ever smoked. The only seeds he ever came across that he thought maybe saving the seeds would be worth while, they are old about 15 years or more. I know thats a long time but germination isnt out of the question. Its from hawaii so i would imagine it's probably sativa, i am not sure what to expect.
I was hoping someone with some experience could give me some input. If it was that good and any of the seeds are still viable how would you go about utilizing this strain? I figure growing it out to maturity if its fgemale and keeping clones would be the first step and if its malle storing the pollen would be first step. But what would be the most desired option...trying to cross polinate with the other siblings or crossing with another plant and than selective inbreeding?
I know about hybrid vigor and already read the faqs and it said that its good to introduce new breeding stock into a gene pool. It said to use breeding stock that had recessive genes instead of dominant which i understand but what kind of breeding stock has ressessive genes? If I had a large breeding stock of p1s sativa/indica and hybrid what would be the best kind of traights and species would be best to introduce to this population? (I am assuming its a hawaiin sativa but lets just say a hybrid that has very unique great tasting and potent phenotypes)
thanks