I broke enough my teeths with it in my young age to be strict/douchebag on it. Better to involve your researches on the inherent dynamics of the genotype used, to know/identify them and to work with them separately (for preservation). The plant will not give a damn fuck to preserve anything, if it have to crush an entire subgroup to improve its mass as population it will be done. What we are sicking the most as stoners are the weed quality/type, and it’s for the plant a consequence of its vital function. Not a top priority. It’s also the beauty of cannabis breeding in my book.
I don’t have problem with your believes in fact, specially if you get competitive results, but by your absolute formulation.
And it make me crazy. Like selfed landraces. But it’s another debate i think.
You don’t have to agree buddy, it’s cool don’t worry.
An homozygous state is not necessary a restriction of the alleles and how they are fed in their mechanism. You can operate a serious and skilled BX, finish with a rock stable line … and not having an homozygous line at the end. We will all swim in an ocean of high fidelity elite cuts stabilized in reg seeds if it was the case.
For this specific case, i will twist your consideration on the invisible traits lol An heterozygous line can be stable just because you control fully how is fed the DNA for the prior expressions that matter in your project.
It’s another polemic subject for me anyway, a good strain/line don’t have to be homozygous. Not even to be a good genetic material. And it’s why i like to work with the NH.
For the epigenetic leverages, the concept is pretty simple. The practice not, it involve some knowledge in phyto and to already be in ease with the line.
To be simple it’s like generating an artificial environnement prone to reveal or destruct the traits you want to work. It’s a bit reductive but in a way it’s what i do to screen my sources from herms, it’s not more complicated than this. In practice you can extend this leverages with everything used by the plant : light privation, specific nutes balances, high clay soil, PH extrems … i don’t say this for herms specifically, but to generate an answer of the plant that you can map as an human. And as an underground breeder with its inherent constraints also.
I don’t like to speak about selection, it’s pointless when this subject is treated in a generic way. You don’t select a skunk the same way than a NL, no matter the goal. But let’s be blunt a bit for the sake of the clarity.
Let’s say that you breed a strain for anthocyanins. The best way to map the potential is not to just flower the plants. But to generate an artificial condition that is enough extreme to trigger what is usually not shown, and make your ratios. So let’s say that in the tent you set the temp at 15°c, just before the stasis … to turn the maximum of the specimens and to judge the potential, the variations and its linked traits/subgroup.
It’s typically an epigenetic leverage. You can extend eventually to the concept of “terroir”, a clone that totally change his weed from two outdoor locations. And without any genetical drift, to make a loop.
Maintaining in the vegetal reign is pure control. It involve a cascading mapping of what is moving the strain onward its proper evolution. If you let the chaos drive it, you get chaos in return. It’s more than genetic 101, it’s everywhere around you and in your plate.
I’ve nothing against the open pollination, just against people presenting it as a method, a technic or even something used for any type of goal. It’s just a round of propagation.
Here we go, the hardy weinberg stoned religion and it’s derivatives ^^ It’s an absolute statistic tool to demonstrate a dynamic. Even a natural crop can’t enter in this kind of modelization. But a perfect excuse also to don’t work the lines : “no matter what, the line will be fucked up by depression, no sense to take the time to stabilize it or even to map it” ^^ i know the sing
Cannabis is a poly-hybrid mess since the begin. What changed is the care around it and the short cycles.
Also the transmission.
Selfing is backcrossing. Inbreeding practices are evolutionary, the opposite. But let’s call it an opinion.
The haze thread have drifted like Ken Block here lol