Hello, I’m fairly new into the breeding subject and I’m studying a lot about this topic recently.
I’m a organic brazilian grower and I have quite a small place for breeding. I would like to share my future plans with you guys and see if I can get some insight.
So… I’m planning on using STS to make the reversal.
This is my plan:
I have 2 favorite autos strains and I would like to make 2 things:
Step 1: make the reversal on auto feminized strain 1
Step 2: polinize auto feminized strain 1 (the same strain, but not the same plant)
Step 3:polinize auto feminized strain 2 (making some hybrids)
Question 1:About the hybrid, the result will be 50% hybrid, 25% strain 1, 25% strain 2 ?
Question 2: About the same strain polinized one, I know they cant be exaclty the same, but the seeds will be geneclty close to the mother ?
Question 3:Can I make the hybrid one a new strain with only feminized seeds? What would this process loke like ?
Welcome to Overgrow @space I would chime in here but I don’t honestly know much about using STS… but rest assured someone will be buzzing in soon with all the info you need
Answers :
Question 1 : it will depend principally on 2 factors :
from a seed to other seed, the influence of the mother and the father will change. The only thing you can do is stabilize the characteristics you prefer backcrossing theplant you select
some plants (even in the same strain) are more influent in the crosses than others. And their influence depend in the case if the strain is mother or father, and with who, in the cross. For exemple for two plants A and B, the crosses A x B and B x A will not give you the same result.
Question 2 : the answer is normally yes, normally the closest. But a lot of time it’s no. Polinating a plant with herself is making a “S1”. But it don’t function always. For exemple : Triangle kush S1, Cheese S1 are garbage or hermies : I tried 2 times with each.
Question 3 : the STS technique make feminized seeds only
Hm… thats a lot to process and a lot of new things to study hahaha ! Thanks a lot bro !
So, I’ll be testing to see what will happen to them.
I think is one of my goals to breed and have good seeds.
It looks like more fun hahaha, and what are your thoughts on STS? Any bad experience ?
I’m thinking about regular auto seeds to breed, but it is hard to find regular, especially on my country.
I’m very excited to grow my own crosses hahaha
I’m looking into crossing my 2 favorites autos:
Purple kush auto from dutch passion and LSD auto from barney
See breed with auto plants it’s a little tricky and if do properly takes quite a lot to develop a new strain first you should have a regular auto strain with some desirable traits (size, resin,buds, leaflets etc) once achieve that through the STS you can lock up does traits and make them stable on the off spring ,
But for that you must work on a strain first
Other side is if you just want to make seeds for your joy, then,go ahead and chucking everything you can, between feminized autos, autos with photoperiodic plants. Ruderal landraces etc…eventually you’ll get what you are looking for.
Hey man, sorry to bother you, but i have one more question, because the science of this doesnt make sense a lot for me
So, If I cross 2 auto feminized seeds, plant their seeds and cross the seeds again ? What will happen ? For how long can I make this ? Can I make a viable, stabilized seed this way?
Is it the case that they loose vigor in all cases, even in the event of highly selective breeding (I.e. Only reproducing/working progeny that improve upon the parents?) My suspicion is that vigor decline comes from the bottle neck caused by small seed packets and partial packets.
