my mentor friend told me to do that, put all the seeds in the same container because you'll be searching through them all equivalently, I mean I seen some weird stuff some of which persists in this very thread, I do appreciate pictures because of the early markers I'm looking for with my eyes, but I know for sure end of day you can't tell if your selections were correct without smoking it. Also different worked strains have different early markers and you might not even know what they are you sort of have to guess based on the early indicators from other lines you know about for sure
just has me laughing 20 years of shitty bmw driving schnooks fussing with a loupe over some pot then they drop 30K on it without ever smoking it.
I mean if you can predict that the pot seeds you have will definitely reproduce certain things, thats the same thing the farmers in Africa and Asia were doing, they got tall plants for the fields in the summer, short plants for the hills in the rainy season, fat seeds to feed to the animals, small seeds which may have more drug traits sometimes, all in the same line.
for me I'm surprised in 10 years how many different things I was able to find that fit my feeding schedule which to me is most important thing to look for, will this plant work with the way I feed my other plants, because if not I have to do more work to set up a new feed system for this plant.
Which leads me to the main thing, I never once seen a seed pack with photos of the leaves of both parents and I never once seen a seed pack that told you how to feed the damn thing and make it work, if everyone is buying these seeds to grow pot and have excellent stuff, shouldn't some instructions of how to run the plant so it comes out good enough be part of the package when you pay the money? I mean these were closely held trade secrets 20 years ago but I really don't see why not share that info these days.
I'm talking about 3 things I know about so far if you know a similar one please share it, some plants gets bigger with calmag, some plants gets bigger / better with late flower calcium or magnesium or both, some plants gets stronger high or bigger or both with tons of monopotassium phosphate at the flip and early flower.
What I heard is that after 40 years of trying to take something excellent and improve it and not being able to, the best goal of the breeder was to keep his excellent thing the same over many decades as the people before him did to keep that thing excellent and the same over many centuries.
Also breeding is kind of the same for weed, strawberries, snap peas, chickens, dogs, horses or whatever else so you can use tips and techniques you find in those other disciplines on weed and it will work most of the time. For instance if you want to find everything thats negative in a line (genetic diseases) breed the brother to the sister.
That one might work better for dogs but you get the idea.
also there is an excellent book about how Genealogical evidence interacts with the legal system by Noel Stevenson you can read it for free here:
vi, 233 pages : 23 cm
archive.org
but really the standard is what is in front of your eyes, all the background provenance is helpful in searching out what you're looking for, but if you don't know what you are looking for looks like, it won't help you and also shouldn't be the final measure. End of day the only thing that matters to the pageant judge is the example in front of the eyes or in the case of pot plants lungs also.
thats my 2c thanks for letting me rant like a madman
