I flip males, sniff their pollen, loupe them, stem rubs etc. but really I know his parents so well so when you have say ten males or whatever to choose from it’s easier to differentiate what’s best; sometimes your hand gets forced too with slim pickings for males or herm ones - working with SE Asian lines heavily past 5 years really teaches you you can’t always be so picky. In the end assuming we know what’s going to pop out is a bit much, but statistically we try & push towards a direction the best we can then it’s a numbers game, & growing out progeny…
If you begin with great genetics, both parents you’re stacking the odds heavily in your favor
I’m going to do a full progeny run early next year from my latest batch and that male with elongated flower has reshaped lots of the females I have thrown at it in the past 2 years. I’m curious to see it with the Chaing Mai another SEA and the Colombian SMG.
I may focus my observation on the males coming out of all the crosses to see how dominant that elongated flower is as I wish to bulk it up with out losing sativa/narrowleaf dominance.
Another question (if I may and thanks for the answers);
Have you found very resinous males within the SEA lines you have worked with?
I haven’t found it on my Filipino Geno (a high resine profile), I have found other great things but not a resinous one. Are high resin phenos a thing in SEA expressions??
