and if you want to get something close to your original mother, just keep back crossing her offspring to her. your f1s will be 50% kush, f2s 75% and so on. i like hybrid vigor and all, but in a case, like yours, where you're trying to get a specific type of plant, i don't understand breeding with something different when logic dictates you'd want something as similar as possible. i've never understood trying to preserve a sativa by polluting it with an indica. if you want to stay as close to it as possible, find a DIFFERENT sativa. i'd think the same thingin your case as you're specifically looking for kush traits. you might not get much hybrid vigor out of a different kush line cross, but you'll get closer to your goal right at the start, and might even find you like the other one better.