Possibly someone in the know can answer....

[evln00b]

How would you go about crossing

Real Seed Company - Manala with BC Bud Depot God Bud

my theory is that manala is a MAJOR yeilder and from what I've read a decent sativa smoke (up to 2k), and God Bud is known for Indica potency and yield.

Also the Indica genetics would help to shorten the Sativa height right ??

If I'm right then would this produce seeds for a really High Yielding Sativa/Indica cross, or is there more to it than just cross pollinating ?

I've been thinking about this for a while, I was also thinking that the resultant plant could then be crossed again with one of the Stitch super auto's (say chaze) to boost Yield.

So is it that easy ? or is there a lot more to it ??

 

[Afrikaaner]

Certainly you could just cross and go with it, but making a proper strain tends to have a lot more work involved. I can't say from experience, but from what I understand, there is usually a lot of backcrosses to the original parents (inbreeding) and selections from many many plants to find the one unique one that absolutely has all the traits you want. But again, there is nothing stopping you from doing what you said and potentially having superb results, but here would have to be a lot of luck involved.

 

[evln00b]

I get the backcrossing thing... if we say it's kinda like hets for snakes yeah..

so basically we find the offspring that has say 80% of the traits, **high yield, but medium sized** then we cross that one back to the indica parent for potency** the resultant offspring are medium height, high potency, medium yield... we then cross back the best one to the sativa parent to go for the high yield kinda thing ??

So we're looking at a good few generations from seed to come up with a stable producer yeah ?

**goes to look for the beginners guide**

( I haven't even finished a first grow yet and I'm already waaaaaayyy ahead of myself, I'm just one of these folk that loves diving head on into hobbies and learning everything I can )

 

[Muddy]

You might also want to read Marijuana Botany for more in depth information on breeding. Pretty technical but well worth it IMO.

http://www.autoflower.org/f42/marijuana-botany-1963.html

 

[evln00b]

Cheers guys... I think I'm gonna have fun with these, regardless of trying / not trying anything out... I live to learn man, Knowledge is power

 

[mojave green]

I just had to jump in with this....
If two people have 12 children.... they will all have their own charactoristics "the kids" so... if two plants have 100 seeds they will follow with their own genetic makeup just like the kids!

No two people are the same genetically. unless true twins.
No two plants are the same genetically. unless cloned.

 

[Nelson]

This is more or less true. In dog breeding to get a strain really rolling a breeder will breed the best female of the litter back to the the father and then breed the best of that litter again back to the same father and as many times as they can until the litters start to get a consistancy of looks and temperment. In pot plants back breeding works about the same way and you can go both ways breed back to the one cross type or the other or both. If you do this you may get mor consitancy in the pheno types or the THC levels or whatever else you are looking for. The Romans used to do this to get great fighters but now it would really be frowned on. Certain characteristics can be breed into the genes and manipulated it is not just a throw of the dice.

I just had to jump in with this....
If two people have 12 children.... they will all have their own charactoristics "the kids" so... if two plants have 100 seeds they will follow with their own genetic makeup just like the kids!

No two people are the same genetically. unless true twins.
No two plants are the same genetically. unless cloned.

 

[Hoots]

Good luck with your plan.

Big fan of Real seed company, something exciting growing landraces, there vigor and strength of character are immense.

As the Malana cream is open pollinated her genes could contain any number of surprisess hidden away. A cross between one RSC jungli and one 8-mile high gave me seeds that showed large variation in bud density, flavour, high and even flower structure though every other aspect of the plants were identical. And this was in the F1's! What I would have found in the F2's is staggering.

Instead tho I pollinated the best F1 with a new 8-mile male and plan to work on through that line.

That's what I love about landraces, variation.

After all every prized and boasted strain came from a seed out of some farmers field in the beginning, look forward to seeing your results.