Breeding with a clone

Hypothetically, if you had a cut that you really enjoyed that you wanted to breed to slightly shorten flower and increase flower density, possibly tighten node spacing. Say you found a candidate strain, that is known to breed true for said traits, bought those seeds and grew them out and found a selection of females and males. Would it be best to breed the best male as you could tell with the cut? Or would it give you a better potential result to use colloidal silver on the cut, collect pollen, and then fertilize the best female of your donor strain, so if it breeds true for more than you expect, at least it was with the best female.

Tldr whats better straight or gay sex? I would go with silver

Its all a crap shoot until you test the progeny out and see what you find. You can't assume anything is going to "breed true" without actually growing out the progeny.

waterproof808 said:

Its all a crap shoot until you test the progeny out and see what you find. You can't assume anything is going to "breed true" without actually growing out the progeny.

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yu have to use every males on this cut, and test the progeny if yu want to know what it bring to the table ^^

You would want to start by using a male on your clone. The mother brings the most to the table in most instances.

Another route is find a female and reverse it onto the clone for feminized seeds.

Sounds like a fun project!

waterproof808 said:

Its all a crap shoot until you test the progeny out and see what you find. You can't assume anything is going to "breed true" without actually growing out the progeny.

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I definitely understand this sentiment, there really is no such thing as a 100% sure deal with genetics is there, but this line was bred in the 70s by an EXTREMELY well respected breeder, and the strain is regarded by some as one of the only true IBL’s out there. It’s also been grown out in the 10s of thousands, and bred with a lot and they all say, low light yielder, 7-9 week finish and dense nugs in the vast majority of the progeny. The strain is Deep Chunk by Tom Hill.

coxnox said:

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yu have to use every males on this cut, and test the progeny if yu want to know what it bring to the table ^^

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Open pollination? I’ve been wondering about this, but then how would you know where you got your desireable traits in the F1? How do you know which one had the magic dust? Or does it not really matter? Also, say you only had one male? Still just use that, or at that point is it too much a game of chance and we go back to the cut and the best female chunker ?

FlowerPower88 said:

Open pollination? I’ve been wondering about this, but then how would you know where you got your desireable traits in the F1? How do you know which one had the magic dust? Or does it not really matter? Also, say you only had one male? Still just use that, or at that point is it too much a game of chance and we go back to the cut and the best female chunker ?

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not an open pollenisation, you take your clone and put pollen of each male on another branche of your cut, then harvest the seeds put them in separate package and test them, so you know wich male bring what....

you can do an open pollenisation, but it make sense only if yu dont plan to keep the male that throw the gene yu look for.

ahhh, thank you, now I understand…I may do that, because I won’t have a ton of males most likely out of 15 seeds