mating an autoflower to a photoperiod plant will result in some of the seeds being autoflower and some of the seeds will be photosensitive. assuming the male is the autoflower, preserving the pollen from the father and using it to pollinate the seeds which exhibit the autoflower trait will result in even more seeds which autoflower and a smaller percentage which still exhibit photosensitive traits. Pollinating the females which autoflower from this batch should get you pretty close to all of the resulting seeds exhibiting autoflower traits. If not then one more time using the original pollen on that batch surely would
The autoflowering trait is a recessive trait, the photoperiod trait is dominant. We represent this as P for photoperiod and p for autoflower. When we cross two plants, they will each contribute one geen. In order for a plant to show the autoflowering trait, it must have both recessive genes pp, any other combination, PP, Pp, pP, will be a photoperiod. We can get a rough idea of the contribution using a punnett square. So in your example, when we cross an autoflower (pp) with a photoperiod (PP) the F1 generation will be all photoperiod.
If instead in you crossed a plant from the F1 generation (Pp) with the saved autoflower pollen (pp) then you will have 50% autoflowers. They will also be more similar to the original autoflower, and this would be referred to as a back cross.
I cut down the Grapey Walter and the Sugar Black Rose tonight. The Grapey Walter barely dropped any pollen and I didnt like its structure once it started flowering. They both went directly in the trash.
First I plucked all the open flowers, then I sifted them over a 120 micron screen onto a piece of parchment paper.
The pollen is stored in plastic viles for individual servings. I’ll vacuum seal them in mylar bags with desiccant, then vacuum seal that and place in the freezer.
Picking a good male is defiently super important , I like the idea of the auto flower sativa varieties ,I’d love to see a 4 month sativa that started flowering mid spring but still took the 3-4mnths to finish so that it would be done before fall
Anybody know where to obtain pure ruderalis beans would be very useful for the auto flower projects members hefe are working on, sensi seeds ruderalis indica is the closest I can find but it’s not pure ruderalis , anybody in Europe or russia wanna go for a walk and collect the community some landrace Rudy bean ?