Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 15
BREEDING
Before we begin breeding we will keep it simple for those who
want to learn how to perform simple breeding procedures and then we
will make it a bit more advanced.
Let's go the simple route first. We may want to produce seeds
from our crop to continue a strain that we purchased or obtained. By
breeding two plants we can produce seeds. You are breeding to
continue a strain here but you will not completely replicate the plants
again unless they are IBL (To be explained later), but you will
generate seeds that contain most of the parents' features but maybe not
all. Some of your offspring should be like the parents but other
offspring will show different traits such as potency, color and taste.
MAKING SEEDS
How easy is it to make seeds? Well it is easy if you have
healthy plants and a stable-growing environment. When your male
plants burst their pollen in your grow room they will pollinate the
female flowers. At the end of flowering the bud will contain seeds. The
seeds should be grayish in color. If they are white, then they are not
viable and you harvested them too early. Wait until the end of
flowering to get your seeds. Your seeds will be in with the bud. It takes
quite a bit of time to sort them out from the bud. If you want to use the
