It’s main goal is to rush through life and produce as much fiber, not cannabinoids, as quick as it can. wants to be rope, not dope. I usally never use the biggest, fastest males.
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I have heard this before but haven’t seen any evidence.
If I was breeding for outdoor, I’d assume the fastest male would be good.
More work just appeared. I’m now going to have to do selective breeding of the different males and compare once op are done
Have a beautiful massive male that was fast. I kinda was leaning towards root restriction cause him to flower faster. One of my buddies uses small containers as a method to speed up flowering outside
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Yep. Selecting for outdoors is a bit different but I’d still avoid the biggest, fastest males and look to the fast females to quicken things up. Those big boys are gonna be a step forward in structure but also a step back in potency & effect. Here’s how i rationalize this "opinion ". If left to it own devices outdoors in a temperate zone without human intervention Cannabis much like domestic pigs will try and revert back to it’s farel , natural state. A high fiber, low thc tough son of a bitch. I Now one must ask oneself,
In a wild situation which males are in the best position to pollinate the crop and are therfore responsible for the trend back towards hemp. Subsequently season’s of the fastest, biggest males pollinating the majority of the females lead things back towards hemp in a short amount of seasons.
I just reread my shit and i sound like a lawyer!
But i think it gets my point across, i hope.
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Excellent explanation. Thank you
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If I may add to this - maybe a small side step away from your main point… But…
I find because there is only so much you can gauge before a male drops pollen. One of the things that’s helped me determine if I should use a male - and it kind of falls in line with what budderton is saying here. With lots of the early boys - the lanky ones, are also generally putting out male clusters at sites or locations on the plant that are generally herm sites on females.
I cut those fellas right away, they generally are on the more tall fibrous plants, the sacks I don’t like are usually along the main stalk - many of them are super early and will open much earlier than the rest of the plant. I like to think these guys are more likely to hold intersex potential.
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That’s my take on male selection as well.
Zap the quickest & zap the tallest (not interested in making wood… 
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Cheers
G
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So by default, males that would NOT make it in the wild, natural selection scenario may be the ones that are predisposed to maintain or increase cannabiniod production. I have definitely seen a correlation, inside anyway.
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Seems legit! 
Interesting discussion indeed.
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Nice EG. Some handsome fellas! Are they all from the same batch of seed?
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They are from the same batch. I have cuts of all of them
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You have the sickness too!
Seems like the only cuts I’m holding these days are males! But when you find one that you know makes nice progeny then you’re off to the races! I hope you find a King Midas!
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How soon do you rinse them in the shower after pollinating them?
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Here king Midas here king Midas
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I usally plan it out so they get pollinated just before lights off time and let them spend the next dark cycle (12hrs) in the shower stall in a dark bathroom. At lights on time i shower them down, let them dry, sometimes shower them a second time and then put them back into the flower room. I’ve read fertilization can happen as fast as 15 mins after the introduction of pollen but the fastest I’ve showered them is 2 hrs after pollination and it still made shit tons of seed.
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Thanks for that info brother. I’m sure it will become quite useful to me in the near future.
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