So I’m fairly new to breeding, but I have a question I hope some of you can answer for me.
Say I create a strain and down the line the strain started showing mutated phenos. Like twisted leaves or branching. How could I rid the strain of this recessive trait ?
Do you need to start all over ?
Is it as easy as only crossing the sibs that do not show it ?
I basically want to know how to breed out a recessive gene so future generations of the strain will no longer show it.
Anyway thank you all for the help. If this is in the wrong place I apologize.
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-Happy
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In the breeding/selection process discard the mutant phenotypes and select characteristics that you are looking for and breed with them…with proper selection you will be able to bred out the mutants so they are fewer or no longer exists!
Just depends on how much work you want to do…
Alaskagrown
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Okay thank you. I was thinking that’s what to do. The issue was a friend made a great strain but getting in the F4 gen he started seeing more mutant phenos. So he should definitely just keep picking the non mutated sibs and cross them ?
He was afraid if the trait was still in someplace recessively that he would never be able to breed it out.
Thank you
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I’d say overtime you could breed the mutants out. But it would be much easier to just go back and figure out which parent(s) passed the gene down.
And I mean… unless you’re seeing a ton of them I wouldn’t make a fuss about it. Especially for a home breeder.
I’ve had mutants from some of the top breeders even. I’d say if he’s happy with most of the progeny then no harm.
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Most of the time unwanted mutations can be negated by introducing new strains into the mix. If you fear a recessive gene showing itself, throw some more genetics into the mix(something with some dominant genes).
If you want to continue inbreeding then just select ‘normal’ phenos and cull all of the mutants when they show up. It’s no different than someone crossing a pure indica to a pure sativa and trying to select phenos which an indica nature and sativa high. You will have lots of sativa-leaning doms which will need to be culled in order to move forward with what you want.
That’s the joy of breeding imo.
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Cool. Thank you all for the replies
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