F5 is the fifth generation of progeny. depending on the genotype and phenotype of the parents you which to do a test cross with will help you determine how traits are being inherited and how they are expressed (dominant & recessive). going to the 5th generation gives you a better idea on how far traits get passed and when they become unexpressed. it is hard to tell which character states are dominant and recessive from doing one F1 cross because there are traits that may not get expressed in that generation. at F5, a seedline is considered IBL because there is a point it is not necessary to stabilize character states. after F5, you lose vigor...
same idea as a BX. there is only so many times you can BX to have stabilized character states. after such a point, there is redundancy.
S1's are also technically F1's, but in canna-terms it is appropriate. weed is monecious meaning that it has male/female parts on separate plants but as a form of survival, they will grow male/female parts on opposite sex plants and become dioecious having both parts on same plant. the gene pool tends to shrink down, but you can have genetic recombination.
Hi Rockstar, look closer, he said f1 not F1
hmmm, not sure what you aren't taking seriously, or why, but I'll certainly excuse you lol.
basically, f denotes a generation drived from a selfed individual, whereas F is a cross between 2 plants. the number refers to the number of generations since the parent stock was used. Since f refers to a selfed generation, then if you were to say f2, then that would indicate that the clone was selfed and one of those f1 plants was also selfed.
Sorry about the name rockster. I guess we both need to look a little closer at times.
Go google S1 plant breeding and tell me it's only a term used by cannabis breeders. Get real man.
Bio-Koopa said:"it thinks its fucked and tries to make beans in any way it can."
not really how it works. It is simply carrying the genes that code for intersex traits. All sorts of environmental cues will cause these phenotypes to express themselves.
Bio-Koopa said:"going hermie is a natural trait that can be induced by man"
So what traits are not natural? And how does man induce these hermies? All sorts of environmental cues can set them off.
In areas where people were growing cannabis for sensi production man was killing all the males but still growing the seeds in his crop. Do this for hundreds of years and big surprise suddenly there's populations with huge hermie problems. The smarter growers in these areas used to purchase seeds from different cultivators who kept males around and simply sold seeds (as opposed to growing sensi) made from true males and females for the sensi farmers. Cannabis is a dioecious species. Sure there's hermies around now but that's because people were selecting for it without even knowing it. If you were to just let the population be uncultivated hermies aren't more adept at survival than other plants. Remember this is a wind pollinated species.
Bio-Koopa: said:"lots of the landraces are so interbred that they are stable for certain character states, but lack a diverse gene pool."
Ummm, wrong again. Landraces are stable for traits because they are adapted to the traits favored in their land or origin. In fact, landraces have a diverse gene pool. Their genotypes and phenotypes displayed can be very diverse. Think about it, they're grown in fields where hundreds or thousands of individuals cross pollinate each other. Your not ganna find IBLs in landraces.