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dawg242
dawg242started grow question 2 months ago
What is the process breeders use to acquire their seeds for sale? Do they have two separate farms, one for growing plants for seeds, one for growing plants without?
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Ninjabuds
Ninjabudsanswered grow question 2 months ago
It's possible they are useing a large professional indoor grow opp with laboratory type building where they can have rooms that the air doesn't interact with the other rooms so they can have separate seed and flower operations in the same area. Also it's possible. Now days to be useing tripolid genetics for your flowering plants. When you use triploid genetics for your flowering plants it's almost impossible for those plants to get fertilized even if they are right next to plants relaseing pollen. Essentially tripoids are sterile and usefull in a situation such as you mentioned
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2 months ago
They grow plants only for seeds............they can't grow flowers for human consumption. They are seed breeders, not pot producers.
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 2 months ago
Well, they pollinate a plant and collect the seeds? Yes, they have to worry about contamination, so common sense applies there. Outside is cheaper but tougher to keep isolated from contamination (the "wrong" pollen). Most people don't realize the scale of productions. I made fem seeds and got 1000-1200g from tiny 35-40gram plants. Imagine a 2kg monster outside? 50-75k? As far as breeding at home. Just make sure to do chores in the seed area AFTER you work in the flower area each day. Take a shower and change clothes sometime before re-entering flower area, lol. (or, going anywhere near it). I had a flight of stairs and a couple doors between and did not cross-contaminate with simple common sense rules. Make sure filter on furnace is good enough to filter out pollen. The pollen donator can be removed once its job is done, so it's not like you have a plant dumping pollen every day for a month. .. Maybe 3-5 days before enough pollen sacs open to pepper plants or collect it to apply manually. There's 7-10 days of concern... and after that there's no concern of contaminating other areas.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 2 months ago
depends what kind of seed you want. First bit is picking out the plants with the traits your like and you think will be good. aka selection a donor and receiver. If its reg seed, you need a male plant and a female plant then let them "smash" and you got regular 50/50 mix male/female seeds. If its fem seed, you need to reverse a female to make male parts, this is done with silver like CS or STS, then you use that pollen to make seeds. Some things are a much more complicated but this is the basics of it. Timing of when you pollination and the age of the plant, how long you let the seeds mature, selfing, genetic retardation are all other issue of making seeds. Just don't make seed from seeds from seeds if you are making fem products to avoid issues down the road. F1's work good for giving the plant more vgiour.
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AsNoriu
AsNoriuanswered grow question 2 months ago
m.youtube.com/watch Havd s look ;)))
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Scrubbyjimbob
Scrubbyjimbobanswered grow question 2 months ago
You don't really need a lot of extra space for a breeding program really. You just need to be able to keep things separated enough to not contaminate areas with rogue genetics. You can get a lot of seeds pollinating just a plant or two. The pheno hunts to find your most desirable candidates can really be as large or small as you want/have the space for.
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