Do auto flowering seeds produce auto flowering plants?

Found this on another forum... Hope it helps....


How do you breed two auto's to make a hybrid or seed stock?
Same way you breed regular strains.
Grow all the autoflowers you have and choose the very best female and best male.
Breed them.
Your offspring will be more stable then the parents if its the same auto strain being crossed to make seed stock.
The variations between offspring will only get less over time and stablize out into a solid strain every time you grow it.

To create a auto hybrid just take a auto,
for example Lowryder Diesel and cross it with a different auto..
Lets say..Easy Ryder(lowryderx Ak-47)
now choose a male from one and a female from the other..
store male pollen after breeding the first time..
now grow offpring and choose your fav female hybrid, one thats high in tric production, smell, yield etc, and backcross it with the stored male fathers pollen..
repeat the proccess 4-6 times and you now have a very stable or close to stable autoflower hybrid.
just keep that original fathers pollen and your backcrosses become a snap

just what i was looking for thanx

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My pleasure....

Yep, selected a fem lowlife and a male, pollinated selected nugs and got a bunch of good seeds....did the same with lowryder 2....now stocked up for several seasons.

the progeny of the same strain will produce much more variation than the parents if the parents were an F1. (a cross of 2 different strains)
That way you will create an F2.
Cross two of those F2 seeds together and you get an F3. And so on.
A cross is usually considered stable at F5-F6, if bred selectively for certain traits.
If just crossed around it might take longer.

When you cross a regular plant to an auto some will auto, some will not.
When you cross 2 different autos most will be auto.

To preserve genes your best bet is to use as many males and as many females as possible to preserve all the genes.



Thats the very basics of breeding.