van der griegen said:

It doesn't look like spore production is a discrete trait, but rather a mix of a bunch of genetic factors (and probably several with contributing alleles). Unfortunately, most of the regular cubensis varieties you encounter are going to have been selected for heavy spore production above all other factors, since nobody wants to send out a faint print even if the speed, yield and potency are good. Accumulating many recessive traits when you're starting with a specimen that has had almost all of them bred out will be long and difficult. I see four paths open to you:

1.  Take the long road. Start with a regular variety and standardize your sporeprinting, selecting only the faintest of each first flush for the next round of multispore cultivation.
2.  Start with a wild print, or something close to wild, so you can get the natural mix of genetic factors that HAVEN'T been selected for spore production.
3.  Start with a wild print, or something close to wild, and hope you can pick up a mutation from the wild gene pool that will result in spores not being produced or not dropping if they are.
4.  Mutagenesis.

2 and 3 can be done in tandem.  You can scout for mutations while selecting the weakest spore producer from each batch, I mean.

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nailed it

Boogieman47 said:

Would it be possible that they ran a clone so hard and stretched it out so far then when it was pretty much no good then went back to spores and so on??,



When doing RW how many times did you have to run plates till you had a good cross pasty ?

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Boogieman47 said:

What about taking two fresh clone samples would that basically be like mixing 2 spawn jars in together type thing?

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