Recent content by cryptolab

hi Spitz, Alas, you're almost certainly correct. I wonder if they'll bastardise MJ as severely as American corn.

Hi there, Normally, when growers grow an auto strain, they kill the plant at the first harvest. This is because enthusiastic growers, keen to maximise their yield, harvest both the flowers and the leaves. If growers harvested only the bud, and left the leaves in tact, then the plant is apt to...

hi Icemud, A+ You're absolutely right. Two requirements: 1. The parental strains must be from the same species 2. The parental strains must be 'true-breeding' (inbred & homozygous for given traits) best wishes cryptoLab :-)

hi Jackalope, What makes this whole F1 Hybrid Vigour topic more puzzling... is that the effect doesn't always show up. So, perhaps the most famous example, of an F1 hybrid, is a mule. Which is a first generation hybrid between a horse and a donkey. (Mules are normally sterile so you very...

hi Scientific, yes... that's exactly the problem. We become "nose-blind" so easily.

Hello Denizens, I find this whole topic of F1 Hybrid Vigour, particularly interesting. I understand what F1 Hybrid Vigour is, as a description of its effect. And I understand under what circumstances it will happen. What i don't understand, is 'why' ? Why does F1 Hybrid Vigour occur ? The...

Hi there, The Introduction: One of the problems with an indoor, at home, grow. Is that you fail to notice, or underestimate, the way cannabis stinks. The smells that are ever present, somehow become invisible. I guess it's a bit like the guy that has body odour ... on the train/bus/tram/plane...