Many aspiring breeders often ask the process I use to select breeding stock. I thought I’d take the time to put it down on paper so to say, hopefully enlightening those who are maybe looking for new methods to add to their arsenal of techniques for their breeding practices.
For most of our hybrids, I think about what I’d like the end result to show in the way of traits, and work backward from there using selection processes. In this specific project, we are selecting a female plant to be used in a project we are doing in collaboration with Mosca Seeds. They gave us 2 dozen Cinderella 99 BX seeds to do selection from, of which we popped 24. Of those 24, 12 were male , and 12 were female. After removing the runts and plants that showed minor mutations or insufficient symmetry, we were left with 8 females to select from. We will be flowering out these 8 female plants through harvest to do selection from, and will be documenting the process here in this thread.
So if you’re interested in how we select plants for breeding, stick around and maybe you can find something useful in my documentation of this project.
Week 1: (D, L, K, M, J, N, G, O are their marked names in order)
You mentioned having an end goal, and worked backwards. What is your end goal and what are you trying to accomplish?
And what do you mean by working backwards?
Sorry I’m not familiar with c99 or any kush really. Only grown a few strains myself.
Yep. We will take these 8 females to harvest without pollination, then dry and cure the flower for specific intervals of time to see how the flavonoids oxidize and then make the decision of which one (or multiple) to keep and pollinate on the next cycle. This will be a limited edition hybrid offering within our Collab Series in cooperation with Mosca.
