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If I use regular seeds and pollinate one of the females with a male from the same batch of seeds, will I get the same quality and will it be stable?

You need to use 2 different strains or you will get very unstable seeds.

It's a lot more complicated than a yes or no answer.

in short I wouldn't bank on it being stable. Quality? Maybe.

the more you breed it with itself the more stable it becomes

MickFoster said:

If I use regular seeds and pollinate one of the females with a male from the same batch of seeds, will I get the same quality and will it be stable?

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Depends on the stability of the strain. If it is a worked strain, then sure you will get decent progeny. If it is strains like most of what you see these days (f1 polyhybrids) the first generation will be somewhat stable, the 2nd generation will be all over the place.

There are many factors at play and far to many variable for you to get an exact answer.

The more information you provide, the better help you will receive.

What strain are you trying to cross? Are the genetics already stable? Or do phenotypes range across the board? What generation are they? If dealing with an F1 or F2 then there will be a much wider range of phenos then if you are trying to cross an F7.

Since you havnt provided much info, lets say that you are using established genetics and you have already grown this strain and know the characteristics. Then select the female with desired traits, then find a male that has the same traits (ie structure, smell, etc) and cross them and you SHOULD end up with a similar offspring

Bud Tipps said:

You need to use 2 different strains or you will get very unstable seeds.

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This is absolutely wrong. If you use 2 different strains, the seeds of the first generation will throw out around 3 phenos, but the second generation will be all over the place. I you use a stabilized strain and take a male and female of that strain and cross them, you will have very few variations of the same genetic makeup, but overall a uniform strain identical to the parents. If the parents are unstable, you have no idea what you are going to get. That's why when you rode from good breeders, all of your seeds of one strain have uniform growth patterns, whereas if you buy from shittier breeders, the strains haven't been stabilized and you get all kinds of wonky phenos. It something almost no one does anymore because it takes so much time to actually create a stable strain.

MickFoster said:

If I use regular seeds and pollinate one of the females with a male from the same batch of seeds, will I get the same quality and will it be stable?

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Not if it is a stable strain, it takes at least 7 generations of genetic selection to get to a point where the genetics are stable. And tho doesn't mean just takin seven generations of m/f plants and making seeds with them, you have to selectively choose an breed out the traits you want.


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