If your using the LR gene in any %... and you make a photo cross. By F5 you will have a total auto...EVEN if you breed the NON auto phenos along the way. This to me means the auto gene is DOM or a variation of dom.. Just because the F1 % is low is a non factor. Some of my strains are 1.5% LR and the gene is stronger then ever.
ITs that simple.
Perhaps it may be incomplete dominance like I stated before? In traditional heredity, I believe that the dominant trait will always take precidence over a recessive trait (if memory serves correctly), in theory, anyways.
Just because the F1 % is low is a non factor.
Can you please explain this to me? I am not a breeder and have very little actual experience, but from what I understand, if the popularly held belief if true, then you should not see a SINGLE auto in your F1 gen. when breeding to a photoperiod parent that is not a carrier of the auto trait.
I am starting my first breeding project with photoperiods and would appreciate any and all tips you may have. Nothing beats experience, nothing. I heard that dominant and recessive traits can vary from one genetic stock to another. So one breeder's population may contain a trait that is dominant (lets say orange hairs as an example) and that very same trait (expression may be more accurate) can be recessive in another breeder's population or gene stock (red hairs are dominant, with orange being recessive). Based on your experience, do you find this to be true?
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