you dont need much space for breeding, if you wanted to cross autos then you could easily grow a male in another room just getting light from a winow as they need very little to grow and flower, its what im doing at the minute to the kc45 auto male, ill put some pics up tomorrow, but all i did was when it showed me it was male i just put it in another room where the door is shut and i closed the window to stop the pollen blowing around, its not even in the direct light as it might get noticed so its in the corner of the room and each day i go in and if i see the pollen sacs open i get my old fish food tub and place it below the open sacs then carefully bend the plant over then give it a few gentle taps and the pollen will fall in the pot,
as long as their is no wind or you dont knock it then the pollen should only end up in the pot and not getting to much air born, so far ive not had any issues with pollen getting out of control,
so autos are pretty easy if you wanted to get regular autos, the kc45 autos are really cheap on herbies head shops, plus even if you buy just one seed you will always get 3 free, so if you just spend $1 or £1 on one seed then herbie will send 3 free, 1 will be femenised or auto fem and the other 2 will be regular seeds, at the minute he is giving away a new strain thats about to be released so ive got some of them growing as its suppose to be a really nice strain so the seeds he gives away are not cheap seeds at all, ive had some expensive strains for free, ive not had any bad service either,
i bought a jack flash fem from him and it turned out male, now as herbies head shop is a seed bank then he has nothing to do with breeding the strains, but i let him know in case the batch had been mixed up and he said i was the only 1 that had problems, so he said he will replace it with my next order so when i placed my order he sent 2 x jack flash fem from another breeder so herbie goes above and beyond to keep his customers happy.
the kc45 auto regulars was £10 for 10 seeds, so cant complain at that, i found the did very poor under 24-0 and 20-4, i was getting about 1/4z average and plants less than 1ft high at harvest, then i decided to try them under 12-12 thinking id get very poor results, but i was shocked, the plants nearly hit 3ft, all the plants was between 2.5 and 3ft at harvest, plus the yield dry was around the 2oz mark per plant and gave me 4 x 1ft buds so was very happy under 12-12.
if you wanted to work with regular none autos to cross plants then what i do is keep them in flower room until the pollen sacs have formed, so you can tell when their ready to open so you got time to get plenty of pollen sacs growing before removing it from the flower room, so i remove the male from the flower room and again use the light from the window, now even though the light is not 12-12 the plant still produced pollen, the pollen sacs that are formed during 12-12 will open and release pollen before the plant goes back into veg, but it depends what daylight hours your getting where you are,
so crossing is ok if you crossing the same strain but can be a bit difficult when you cross 2 different strains, the first cross is always the most stable but when you start picking pheno types from the seeds and it can then take several generations of crossing and back crossing with the original pheno before you can get a stable strain.
but even strains you buy have 2 or more pheno types, some breeders are pretty honest and will say that the strain has 5 pheno types and will then list the phenos but most plants produce a few different pheno types from the seeds, the only time ive got seeds to produce the same plants every time their grown is the ak47 x uk cherry cheese ive got, i used 2 females that had identical pheno types and hermied the one and put pollen on the other, the seeds from that cross produce the same plants every time, ive not noticed any different pheno types
