Seeds: How do the breeders do it?

I bought some expensive seeds and thought, if I got some males, I would breed a few seeds when I grow them. But it was explained to me that the result would probably be a collection of different phenos and to get stable seeds takes a few more generations of breeding.

If so, how do the breeders do it? If they don't have parent plants that always breed true then how can they promise that the seeds they sell will be stable. If they do have such parents, why dont my plants breed true?

Confused.

It you mean like crossbreeding, you usually get acgreat hybrid batch(first run on new strain). After that it's time to work on pheno. Keep planting and using the best most desireable traits on male and female plants. Take a few generations, but it eventually becomes stable. You breed the traits you want to keep, and the undesirables get left out each time. I do not breed, but have done extensive research on it, and that's the basic info I came up with.

@Grumpy: Thanks for the answer but I was talking about breeding more of the same strain. I have a 10 pack of Dr's Big Laughing which cost $200. I would like to not have to buy it again. I can keep clones but preserving all the strains I grow with clones is not practical.

Oh. Hehe. In that case you must be buying reggies (asumption). Breed a male and female of the same strain, and you will get the exact seeds you are buying. Again though, to keep the good stuff, you have to select what you think are the best specimens.

it's tough to know what is going on in the breeder growing room, they don't publish their methods all that much
one thing that is mentioned, they have select males in their stables, male selection seems to be a trick of the trade

Grumpy' said:

Oh. Hehe. In that case you must be buying reggies (asumption). Breed a male and female of the same strain, and you will get the exact seeds you are buying. Again though, to keep the good stuff, you have to select what you think are the best specimens.

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Yes regulars. I am also planning to ask about making seeds from a fem with colloidal silver or somesuch. But if I can breed DrGT's seeds for myself, that would be awesome.


@growone Makes sense that if you select both the males and the females that you get more control over the offspring.

I only grrow about six plants at a time and I like to grow several different strains. Breeding, I think, means raising a fair number of plants of the same strain. Probably more than 6 at a time if you want to make real progress.

when i say male, many breeders have a very special male or 2(or maybe 10, who knows)
there is open pollination which is large numbers of males, this is a complicated topic to put it mildly

to truely keep one strain you have to clone. Seeds are unique to it's own. These so called breeders are all frauds. Think, mom/sativa and pa/indida and each parent has parents that they got genes from. Are you one of a kind?