The Stud Book is the male showcase on GenetixBay. Each entry is a documented male plant with its GB-ID, selection journal, the reasons it was kept, its pollen batches, and the sire credits it earns when its offspring become lines or keepers.
In practice
Half of every seed's genetics comes from the father, yet males are routinely culled unseen, and many classic lines are now carried only by female clones. The Stud Book fixes that. A breeder or member who hunts males carefully (vigour, structure, stem rub aroma, resistance and, best of all, the quality of daughters in a test cross) can register the keeper male, and that work earns Wild Pearls and credit. Registered males make it possible to remake lines from known fathers and keep diversity alive beyond a few female gardens.
Don't confuse with
- Elite cut: usually a female clone-only; the Stud Book is about males.
- Pollen bank: stored pollen; the Stud Book is the record of the males behind it.
Myth check
"Males are useless; just run fems." GenetixBay position: males are a necessity and are encouraged and rewarded. Selfing is mostly frowned upon. See selection and pheno hunting.
A GB-ID is GenetixBay's permanent identifier, such as GB-GEN-0001842-6, for a genetic line, landrace, seed batch, plant, cut, grow, harvest, trial or document, so records never get lost or renamed.A test cross mates a plant of unknown genotype with one that is homozygous recessive for a trait, so the offspring ratios reveal what the first plant carries.An elite cut is a famous, proven clone-only plant, often held by a few growers and traded rather than sold openly.A clone-only is a cultivar that exists only as cuttings from one original plant, with no seed line that reliably reproduces it.Fems is slang for feminised seed, made with pollen from a chemically sex-reversed female so nearly every plant grows female.Selfing is pollinating a plant with its own pollen, in cannabis usually by reversing part of a female to make pollen; it is the most intense form of inbreeding.A keeper is a plant from a seed hunt good enough to be kept alive as a clone or mother for future runs or breeding.Wild Pearls are GenetixBay points earned by contributing, such as journals, males, preservation and trials; they can move between members but have no cash value.Regs is slang for regular seed: seed from a true male and female cross that gives roughly half male and half female plants.
