okay so i might be getting ahead of my self since i dont have my f1 yet but i just received my reg pack of la confidential from dna... i had some really potent u.k cheese that i found a seed in and she has been vegging for two and a half months now(about the time i ordered the L A) so i need to germ these out and get my f1 but after that i dont know what the best 50/50 plants are going to look like and then i take that and cross it back to something else? im pretty much lost when it comes to what to do after the f1..also should i clone the u.k and use that to breed with or should i use the mom from seed and clone that and save that to cross back to?? any help is appreciated thanks
Yeah you probably are but what the heck. First of all I want to caution you on the cheese seed. Do you know how it got pollenated, and by what? If you don't know you're already driving with one eye closed. You could be breeding more hermie seeds. I would at least finish the plant to make sure its not going to hermie, before breeding anything. But lets assume everything is fine and you produce these F1 seeds that are half cheese and half LA Con. Those F1 seeds will be fairly uniform and a blend of both parents. Now if you breed the F1s to each other(brother to sister) you will get a wide variety of characteristics in those seedlings. Ranging from grandma and grandpa to parents and everything inbetween. The F2 is where you find the gold, but it takes lots of time and you need to clone everything so that when the results are in you have that special plant cloned and ready to go. Now if you cross the F1s with an unrelated plant the results will be more uniform once again. This is probably the safest/easiest way to do it but your genetics keep changing all the time, maybe for the good and maybe for the bad.
okay and also for the f1 do i just take a cut of the cheese and bud the rest out and see what she does because i thought it would be better if i did it seed to seed...also instead of extracting the pollen could i jus put the male in and flower it with the female or what do you suggest
Theres no difference between doing it with seeds or clones. But if you want you could just go ahead and pollenate one branch, then if your moma hermies throw the seeds away. It might hurt a little but you will thank me. What ever you do....don't put the male in the same room as the female while he's producing pollen. You want to do a controled pollenation. If not your plant will be all seeded. You collect the pollen in another room and then take the female over there. sprinkle some pollen on one branch, let sit an hour or two then spray her down with plain water and take back to the bud room. Check out Possuum38's grow,(organic grow journals) he just did this same thing and has very good pics to go with it.
for sure bro thanks i have been watching how to collect pollen im pretty sure i can do it i just wasnt to sure about what to do with the pollen...rub some pollen on the pistils and wrap it in cloth or something?i will def check out possum38's grow and hit you back if i have any questions..thanks man