Landrace Genetics 101

Here's the tangieland male I got rid of today
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GrizzWald said:
Good for the negative in us, on the look out for survival.. silly in reality though, worrying for worry sake.
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Want to worry about something? 90 percent of the USA's milk cows are members of the same breed...Holsteins. Chances are with the advances in genetic s they are all closely related
 
Yes, that should be of significant concern, too. Any situation in which the vast majority of animals or plants are closely related leaves us open to dangers like I referred to previously. And it's not "paranoid talk," either. People can find several examples of where the farming industry (and, by extension, consumers) has been hit hard, sometimes the word "devestation" would be appropriate. Or you could simply ask an older farmer.

Or, I suppose, a historian. Native Americans faced something very similar when Europeans showed up carrying germs responsible for diseases... that the entire population largely had NO defense against.
 
Scottsquatch said:
I could use some pics of very young males. I have 12 plants I just flipped and it's my first grow. Not too sure what I'm looking for.
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Try this thread:

How can I tell if my seedling is male or female without flowering it?

The most common method is to force flower a labeled clone to determine the sex, rather than the incorrect method of forcing the seedling and then reverting it to vegetative growth again. If you are a seedling grower who does not clone, or a grower who has no seperate vegetative and flowering...
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Also, look in here:

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How to Grow Marijuana Growing cannabis made easy with our guides and tutorials to help you grow like a pro from room design, medium and lighting to feeding, harvesting, drying and curing your buds. Getting Started & Selecting Your Genetics Should I Start My Grow From Clones or Seeds? Do Roots...
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...in the section titled " Sexing and Blooming."
 
Cheetah population down to seven 10,000 years ago, so inbreed almost identical... Think we'll be right :rofl::rofl: R.I.P Nevil :passitleft:
 
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Probably shouldn't have picked that species to attempt to disprove my point. Genetic bottlenecking has caused many issues for the species, including the fact that something like 80% of the males' sperm is abnormal/nonviable - and extreme susceptibility to disease. It has made them such "specialist" species that, as their traditional territory disappears, so are they (after recovering, in numbers at least, from the devastation thousands of years ago that you mentioned) because they're not - as a species - as able to adapt as the average animal. They - as in the entire surviving population - also all have the same deformities, for example, a misshapen skull.

They're rated at least "threatened," depending on who you talk to, and this is after years of human intervention. There were once at least four different sub-species of cheetah, ranging across four different continents. Now... not so much. Huge populations have been wiped out, and it was only the fact that the species was all over the place and the groups not generally in contact with other that there are any these days. Sadly, since they're presently alive in such small numbers and more or less confined to sub-Saharan Africa, one disease could wipe the entire species out. A sad end for such a great hunter.

They're not doing all right. In fact, cheetahs are pretty much the poster child for genetic collapse.

Wait - were you trying to disprove what I've been talking about... or prove it?
 
Guess you missed the point or want to prove your own not matter lovic...I believe this conversation was someone else's about nine year ago..No I picked a perfect example.. you see a future of only seven plants on this planet? ...10,000 year untill problems show, , no worries mate, you keep worrying for your great x 100,000 generations grandchildren ..
 
Scottsquatch said:
Ok guys, question for you. I am really getting interested in landrace strains and that keeps leading me to Ace Seeds. I wanna know what you guys think the best landrace sativa is. I plan on getting a few so I can cob it up.
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I've got a cut of Malawi that I've been running for several years now.

Really, most of their sativas would be excellent for cobbing. What kind of experience do you have growing pure sativas? Some of their sativas are easier to grow than others.
They can be perfectly managed in most environments, but that may be the better way to look.

Their Panama for example is a top notch line, very vigorous and easy to grow, and in turn anything they pollinate with their elite mother, seems to be excellent and mostly manageable. I've got a Thai x Panama in my flower room that wants to take it over, but that's just the Thai genetics.
 
It's not a landrace but, rather, a cross of two of them - but their Golden Tiger is supposed to be pretty good smoke. And cheap, like all their strains. According to the cannabinoid/terpene analysis data on the product page, it has been tested at 27.4% THC(a) - and that report showed that there had already been some decarboxylation, because it lists THC at 2.7, so the initial THC acid figure might have been as high as 30%.

Enough to be good for what ails ya, I expect :rofl:.
 
@Morglie , I have 4 sativas right now with one of them looking to be very very pure. The other three look to be 80% or so sativa. I've been sitting on them for 6 months and finally got all 12 of my mature plants on the same page and into flower. I noticed they grow a bit slower than my indicas and I know they take longer to flower, but I dont worry about time. I watch the plants and try to let them tell me what they need and when they are done.
 
Scottsquatch said:
@Morglie , I have 4 sativas right now with one of them looking to be very very pure. The other three look to be 80% or so sativa. I've been sitting on them for 6 months and finally got all 12 of my mature plants on the same page and into flower. I noticed they grow a bit slower than my indicas and I know they take longer to flower, but I dont worry about time. I watch the plants and try to let them tell me what they need and when they are done.
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Cool! Some people are intimidated by growing them, but they're about the same, you just have to be careful of stretch. It sounds like you've been growing them without any problem. That does sound odd that they are growing slower than your other plants. I've tended to find the opposite. They seem to grow fairly quickly for me compared to indicas. Golden Tiger is a good one. Ace has many different ones.
 
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