Crossing the streams.. And Stabalizing

Ok, after growing for a few years I find myself with the time and space to do a side project.. I have focused my dozens of seeds down to my favorite 2 strains... I focused on them this year and from my best plant of each strain I have pulled a clone... These will be crossed into each other....

A + B = C

My question is, when I grow out C... The intent is to grow as many C as I can handle.. Would it be best to pull a clone from the best 2 and breed them into each other at this stage, or clone off the best single plant and cross into itself?

Probably both? It would depend on what you think of C. If you like whatever your best clone is and want to try and get that into seed form then go with a backcross, keep your orignal clone for future generations. If you want to keep changing it, go traditional.

First off, see if you even like the F1 generation, you might not like it, and it always could just be a bad genetic match. Its a good idea to test multiple males against your best female, then grow out the progeny-this is the best way to find a good keeper male (obviously, you need to keep clones of everything you breed with.) If you decide to go forward with the F2 generation, cross your best F1s, and then grow out as many F2s as you can. This is the generation where you can find some interesting plants to keep, there is a lot of variation in F2s. Always keep an eye out for intersex traits. You never need to backcross back to a parent if you don't want to, and I'd rather make a cross than make S1s for most cuts that I like. I'd only make S1s of a plant I'm crazy about just to see what other kind of phenos lurk within that gene pool.