What's inherited as far as auto-flower genetics?

[greenthumper]

But for sure one of the aforementioned genetic carriers has a dominant auto gene.

What strain can I buy that expresses a dominant auto trait in its offspring? While it's possible some breeders have used a ruderalis other than a direct descendant of LR, I would guess very few would be willing to do all that work. It will be interesting to see who used what as genome mapping becomes cheaper.

 

[JM]

yes cres is right here... auto is a dominant gene... meaning if you run enough generations with an auto trait in there... eventually the offsring will be auto...

 

[cres]

What strain can I buy that expresses a dominant auto trait in its offspring? While it's possible some breeders have used a ruderalis other than a direct descendant of LR, I would guess very few would be willing to do all that work. It will be interesting to see who used what as genome mapping becomes cheaper.

LR. You cant stop the gene, breed solely just non auto phenos...and by F4 or 5 you will be 100% AUTO like it or not. Thats dom IME.

 

[stonemaster]

My f2 generation is showing 1/3 full auto from an auto photo cross. I do not understand how that works. How can the pundet squares yeild 1/3?

 

[ochocinco]

If I understand your question correctly punnett squares only show the percent chance of a specific plant that will show that trait, not a group percent

 

[stonemaster]

I am showing my ignorance but, would't that work out to be the same? If each plant has that ratio, wound't a group of those plants show the same?

 

[krug]

I was just wondering whether the reason your F2s are 1/3 auto maybe cos you grew them outside(in trickier conditions, than they expected). Thus, the plants realized it was not in an ideal climate, so utilized/brought the auto gene into the equation(slightly quicker), to give its offspring a better chance of survival? I could be completely off mark, but, it kind of makes sense that the stronger plants(which i believe you focused on) identify their weakness`s and try to adapt/acclimatize as quickly as possible, so their next generation don`t have to struggle quite so much! Interesting thread btw, for the layman! Nature loves to throw a curveball in, now and again!

 

[stonemaster]

What you say makes sence krug88. The only problem is I did an inside group that is two weeks ahead of the outside and they were 1/3 also. I am wondering that if I do not understand this, what else do I not understand? I thought the inside group was too small a sample to be accrute. So far 20 of 60 are autos. I have 130 yet to show, so maybe it was just luck so far. The % autos of 200 should give me an arcurte number.

 

[stonemaster]

Also of the full autos there are two phenotypes, short and tall. 1/4 of the autos are short, and faster flowering. When I treat females to produce pollen , they are young and look alike. So this time I only have pollen from the tall version. The short ones I bred to indaca dominet photos. I want to start a kush line of autos. I will have to start 32 more f1's hoping to get 2 short autos. So once they have shown hairs and I killed the remaining photos, I will treat all autos and count on getting 2 short autos that will produce female pollen. With a gene frequency of only 8% the short ones will be tricky to separate then breed like with like.

 

[ochocinco]

What I mean is that just because a plant has a 50 percent chance to become an auto doesn't mean half of the seeds you grow will be auto. Just like flipping a coin just because you have a fifty percent chance of getting heads doesn't mean that out of 10 flips you will necessarily get five heads, you could but its not a guarantee