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Cannabis Adaptation. General Characteristics. Part 1

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

A ) Size and Yield – the scale of an individual cannabis plant is set by environmental elements like room for root and shoot expansion, sufficient light and nutriments, and correct irrigation. These environmental factors may have an effect on the phenotypic picture of genotype, but the genotype of the individual is accountable for overall modifications in gross morphology, including size. Grown under the same conditions, especially big and small people are simply spotted and selected. Many dwarf cannabis plants have been re ported and dwarfism could be subject to genetic control, as it is in several higher plants ,eg dwarf corn and citrus. Weed folks selected for enormous size incline to provide offspring of a larger average size every year. Half-breed crosses between tall ( Weed sativa-Mexico ) strains and short ( cannabis ruderalis-Russia ) strains yield F1 offspring of intermediate height ( Beutler and der Marderosian 1978 ). (more…)

List of Favorable Features of Cannabis in which Adaptation Happens.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

1. General Characteristics.
A ) Size and Yield.
B ) Vigour.
C ) flexibility.
D ) Hardiness.
E ) Illness and Pest Resistance.
F ) Maturation.
G ) Root Production.
H ) Branching.
I ) Sex.
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Cannabis Fixing Characteristics.

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Fixing features ( manufacturing homozygous offspring ) in Weed strains is tougher than it is in several other flourishing plants. With monoecious strains or hermaphrodites it’s possible to fix features by self-pollinating an individual exhibiting favorable features. In this example one plant acts as both mum and pop. However, most strains of cannabis are dioecious, and unless hermaphroditic reactions can be induced, another parent exhibiting the characteristic is needed to fix the feature. If this isn’t possible the unique individual may be crossed with a plant not exhibiting the feature, inbred in the F1 generation, and selections of mums and dads exhibiting the favorable feature made of the F2 generation, but this is really tricky. (more…)

Cannabis Adapting.

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

A lot of the breeding effort of northern US cultivators is engaged with acclimatizing high-THC strains of equatorial origin to the climate of their growing area while saving potential. Late-maturing, slow, and irregularly blossoming strains like those of Thailand have problems maturing in numerous parts of North America. Even in a green house, it might not be possible to age plants to their full local potential. (more…)

Cannabis Breeding. Part 5

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Indoor lighting or greenhouses can protect breeding stock from winter weather. In tropical areas plants may live outside all year. As well as saving particular elders, a successful breeder always saves many seeds from the first P1 group that produced the valuable characteristic so that other P1 plants also exhibiting the characteristic can be grown and selected for back-crossing at a later point.
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Cannabis Breeding. Part 4

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

This process is AKA cross-pollination, cross-fertilization, or just crossing. If seeds result, they’re going to produce half-breed offspring exhibiting some traits from each parent. Large quantities of half-breed seed are most simply produced by planting 2 strains side-by-side, removing the staininate plants of the seed strain, and permitting nature to take its course. Pollen- or seed-sterile strains might be developed for the production of large quantities of cross-breed seed without the work of thinning ; nonetheless genes for sterility aren’t common. It is critical to recollect that parental feeble nesses are broadcast to offspring as well as strengths. Due to this, the most powerful, healthy plants are al techniques used for half-breed crosses. (more…)

Cannabis Breeding. Part 3

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

These acclimatized members of the 3rd crop have a higher possibility of maturing doable seeds than the parental types, and random pollinations will again increase the numbers of acclimatized individuals, and thereby increase the likelihood that unattractive traits connected with adapting will be broadcast to the subsequent F2 generation. This effect is compounded from generation to generation and eventually results in an absolutely acclimatized weed strain of small drug value. With some care the breeder can avoid those concealed downsides of comatose selection. Definite goals are critical to progress in breeding cannabis. (more…)

Cannabis Breeding. Part 2

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

A few steps must be brought to preserve our disappearing genetic resources, and action must be fast :

* Seeds and pollen should be picked up straight from trustworthy and knowledgeable sources. Central authority fits and smuggled cargos are barely trustworthy seed sources. The features of both father and mother must be known ; hence, mixed bales of at random pollinated marijuana aren’t acceptable seed sources, whether or not the actual origin of the sample is certain. Contact should be made with the farmer-breeder accountable for continuing the breeding conventions that have produced the sample. Correct records of each possible parameter of expansion must be kept with rigorously stored triplicate sets of seeds. (more…)

Cannabis Breeding. Part 1

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

All of the cannabis grown in North America today came from foreign countries. The diligence of our ancestors in their collection and sowing of seeds from superior plants, along with the forces of natural selection, have worked to make local strains with local traits of resistance to pests, sicknesses, and climatic conditions. Put simply, they’re changed to particular niches in the ecosystem. (more…)

Cannabis Polyploidy.

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Polyploidy is the state of multiple sets of chromosomes inside one cell. cannabis has 20 chromosomes in the vegetative diploid ( 2n ) condition. Triploid ( 3n ) and tetraploid ( 4n ) people have 3 or 4 sets of chromosomes and are named polyploids. It is believed the haploid condition of ten chromosomes was likely derived by reduction from a higher ( polyploid ) ancestral number ( Lewis, W. H. 1980 ). Polyploidy hasn’t been shown to occur commonly in cannabis ; nevertheless it could be induced artificially with colchicine treatments. (more…)