Vlad the Inhaler
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Cheers Hootigh.
On perennial crops.
Growing weed as an annual crop doesn't involve any soil management that isn't necessary to other annual crops.
If the climate allows, the soil may grow one or two other crops per yea, as well.
Agroforestry is a good use of land, certainly.
Unless you can breed your perennial weed to be able to be copiced (clear cut to the ground) and it will regrow, you won't gain any labour advantage. Transplanting juvenile plants may take less effort than managing and harvesting a tree culture.
I'm just not sure it would suit many producers.
Certainly not anyone using bydropnic or intensive methods.
On finding a good plant for yourself.
I quite enjoy doing large seed selections.
I went through a breeding pack of nordle last year. 60+ and 50+ germs.
In those two runs I found a half a dozen plants that were outstanding. Very potent and almost unsmokable for some friends.
Do you need a massive amount of time space and resources to breed develop and fix a strain, also?
I think for small scale hobby breeders you could just work F1 generation.
Find an excellent male from a strain you enjoy, say a widow. Either an indica or sativs expression, depending on what you want the F1 hybrid to be. Then get hold of an unrelated and outstanding female cut. One that you enjoy.
Haze, herer, sensi star, god or anything that you enjoy the effect and taste of.
Then breed up some hybrid seed. If you find a cross you really enjoy, do two things.
Keep a donor of a plant that ticks the box for you.
This should keep you going at least ten years, if you treat her right, possibly 20+ if you are very lucky.
Secondly breed couple of thousand seed of the same cross. Then freeze them.
You should be able to get 60% germination rate from these seeds for as long as you will live.
Weed is like humans. Inbreeding cuts their potential quickly.
Fixing a strain allows you to breed truly, but also depresses their yield.
If you want potent vigorous plants, you can breed bespoke smoke in the F1; and then enjoy your gardening hobby in doing largish seed runs.
Fixing strains is for commercial seed producers.
Thanks for your response. It is good to see other people's approaches. If you continue with your plan to chemically mutate/develop your plants, I hope you get what you are looking for.
It's your hobby after all, you should invest your tine and effort in the way that satisfies you most.
On perennial crops.
Growing weed as an annual crop doesn't involve any soil management that isn't necessary to other annual crops.
If the climate allows, the soil may grow one or two other crops per yea, as well.
Agroforestry is a good use of land, certainly.
Unless you can breed your perennial weed to be able to be copiced (clear cut to the ground) and it will regrow, you won't gain any labour advantage. Transplanting juvenile plants may take less effort than managing and harvesting a tree culture.
I'm just not sure it would suit many producers.
Certainly not anyone using bydropnic or intensive methods.
On finding a good plant for yourself.
I quite enjoy doing large seed selections.
I went through a breeding pack of nordle last year. 60+ and 50+ germs.
In those two runs I found a half a dozen plants that were outstanding. Very potent and almost unsmokable for some friends.
Do you need a massive amount of time space and resources to breed develop and fix a strain, also?
I think for small scale hobby breeders you could just work F1 generation.
Find an excellent male from a strain you enjoy, say a widow. Either an indica or sativs expression, depending on what you want the F1 hybrid to be. Then get hold of an unrelated and outstanding female cut. One that you enjoy.
Haze, herer, sensi star, god or anything that you enjoy the effect and taste of.
Then breed up some hybrid seed. If you find a cross you really enjoy, do two things.
Keep a donor of a plant that ticks the box for you.
This should keep you going at least ten years, if you treat her right, possibly 20+ if you are very lucky.
Secondly breed couple of thousand seed of the same cross. Then freeze them.
You should be able to get 60% germination rate from these seeds for as long as you will live.
Weed is like humans. Inbreeding cuts their potential quickly.
Fixing a strain allows you to breed truly, but also depresses their yield.
If you want potent vigorous plants, you can breed bespoke smoke in the F1; and then enjoy your gardening hobby in doing largish seed runs.
Fixing strains is for commercial seed producers.
Thanks for your response. It is good to see other people's approaches. If you continue with your plan to chemically mutate/develop your plants, I hope you get what you are looking for.
It's your hobby after all, you should invest your tine and effort in the way that satisfies you most.