Re: Newest of Noobs..from set up to growing and harvesting
hello my friend, welcome to 420 mag,
great start to your journal, looks like its going to turn into a very nice grow,
you mention breeding, well what do you need to know, their is plenty of breeding info in my journal or feel free to ask any questions you like here and ill do my best to answer, im not an expert so i can only tell you what i know from my own experience, ive produced regular seeds and femenised seeds,
at the minute im working with a cross i made, im trying to make a stable ken estes gdp cross with purple cheese auto,
i crossed a male gdp with a purple cheese auto, 1/4 of the seeds will turn out auto, so ill grow out the seeds and pick out the autos and cross them so that will give me a gdp cheese auto to work with, then its a case of growing them out and picking the best pheno types so i can then make it stable and consistent but it takes time as you have to back cross and pick out the pheno types you want,
most the seeds will be none auto so that will be gdp cheese, again ill need to work with the pheno types and cross them to produce a stable strain, but its a lot of work and you have to do some back crossing to ensure you keep the genetics your after.
but if your just after a load of seeds pick the best female and best male you can find, if you cross the same strain then the seeds will the same as you started with as long as you pick the best fem and male from that batch of seeds,
if you wanted to cross a strain then again you need to pick the best female and best male from another strain, crossing strains is the easy part, making it work and turn into a top strain is something else,
then theirs fem seeds, theirs a few methods to produce fem seeds, the chemical option and the rodirization metho, unsure of spelling but thats the method i use and it works and produces femenised seeds.
so it really depends on what you want to do, if you just want to produce seeds from a strain you like then just grow out a male and female and cross them with each other, just be careful with pollen is pollen from a male gets everywhere so you could turn a room of fem plants into a room of seeded plants very quick if your not careful with what your doing,
but it can be done, it can be controlled, i produce seeds on my lower buds on the plants im crossing so the rest of the plant is seed free, ive got thousands of seeds and a few friends are trying the strains ive crossed as im pretty impressed with the results plus theirs a few strains ive not had time to grow out yet so getting others to grow them allows me to see the progress and the end results,
at the minute im collecting pollen from a kc45 auto male as its a huge male for an auto so good genetics for an auto cross, so this will be used to produce a big yielding auto, but it will take a while to get the strain where i want it to but once im happy and the strain is stable then that gives me as many seeds as i want for future grows,
but if this is your first grow id get used to growing first and learn how plants react to differnet situations, then work with a strain you have grown a few times so you know the plant is a nice plant and the end results are good, the last thing you want to do is cross a good strain with a bad male and produce seeds that produce poor plants, getting it right pays off but getting it wrong is very easy.
Glad to have you, and congrats on finding the first official "female". 
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