Well, that’s the part I didn’t get figured out, lol… but, I’ll have lots of wacky f1s to play with and may find something nobody else will have.
I cut a few but one guy pollenated most of my early run. Then I started another group of about 6 strains or so and got a male and female on 5 of them. So, I was going to make some sloppy f2s to keep the strain.
I put all of those males in a bedroom, and eventually saved the pollen but something happened and I lost a couple. And, since the early male hit a lot of stuff, I didn’t want to try for f2s on many. I did try and pick a few that hadn’t been hit and dusted the ends of a few limbs and marked them with ribbon to know where I started. I won’t be attempting that again. I’d like to watch a few keep vegging. So, maybe I can set up a room. Just takes more money and more lights, heh.
You really can’t do anything serious without taking cuts so you can watch a group and then save what you want. That’s what I’ll have to commit to one day. Take female cuttings, test males for flower start and then reveg and/or take cuttings and then start it all over again but with the selected plants and then hit them with the selected male… just trying to work this out in my mind and sort of thinking out loud, heh…
I know one thing, I’m ready for a run with no seeds. Potency suffers once they start building seeds. I have one going now that will flip pretty soon. I have some saved pollen I may try and paint some buds, but that is sort of safe. You still need to separate it from the others when doing it. I learned that the hard way, too.
peace