@hempy
The Haze Whisperer
Hey Hempy I think the advocation for using a male Haze parent is because of what haze brings to the table in a hybrid is well known (to Sam). Unrivaled potency and hybrid vigor. It's a way to theoretically "supercharge" everything in your library. Using various males to the haze females is much more unknown going on the realistic assumption that most are doing more work and observation with the female plants they are tending than the male plants. This is how I interpret it anyways.
Why Nevil advocated for using haze males I'm unsure, is it because that's what he heard from Sam too? I would still like clarification as to what Nevil actually got from Sam. In a line with a majority of plants being female, dude supposedly had three plants with 2 males. Those are some impressive odds. From what I have read, Nevil didn't breed the female haze plant or work with it. How would he know which are the best to use for breeding, males or females, when he only used a handful of plants 2/3 of them male.
You bring up sex linked traits in humans and I can not say what is correct or incorrect this is definitely beyond my current scope but I can't help but point out the mere fact that cannabis plants can be reversed quite easily, female plants turning male and male turning female. I know enough to say I don't know, but these are the things I think when these topics and conversations come up.
Hi SB from what i have read vigor comes from the crossing of 2 unrelated lines.
Heterosis, also called hybrid vigour, the increase in such characteristics as size, growth rate, fertility, and yield of a hybrid organism over those of its parents. Plant and animal breeders exploit heterosis by mating two different pure-bred lines that have certain desirable traits.
Sex linked traits in plants and animal are the same but changes in asexual reproduction, In humans hermaphrodites are sterile were in plants they are not.
These are 2 key points.
The Y chromosome is passed on without recombination, the DNA on that chromosome provides a genetic history of a males paternal ancestral line.
Unfortunately, the X chromosome is short, such that the chance of any signal of recent ancestry on the X decays rather quickly.
That tells me the male carries a genetic history of a males paternal ancestral line and is past down to the males in the next generation of males.
Now the female say in Haze also gets the X from the father and why its a female. The male determines the sex of the offspring and if he passes on his X its female if he passes the Y then its a male. Like i posted before the Male adds 49% the Females adds 51% to the matting.
The X chromosome decays quickly so its ancestral informal must also.
So Haze is a hybrid and males carry the information of the father lines and going by science the male will carry across more of the Haze using a Male haze than you would a female Haze plant to a unrelated line.