I got through college leading study groups for exams! I learned the material better by teaching others than by studying on my own....'cuz you get too bored otherwise.
So, I've got a question for you!
Let's say I've got a very stable landrace Pakistani plant....a Kush if you will....and a pure landrace equatorial sativa.
I've also got some hybrids, and stuff like c99, etc.
How does one go about crossing in order to come up with something stable? I know you can just cross, see what comes up and make a mother plant if you hit the motherlode.....but that takes a massive amount of room, and a long, long time. I want to get the effect of Columbian Gold with growing characteristics that are suitable for indoors.
You have a roadmap?
Easy deal you ask Bud Man: Just male up your CG and sex up your Paki. Remember what goes bad with breeding is Hybrid to Hybrid. As I mentioned, all one is achieving with Hybrid to Hybrid breeding is "mud puppies" it's like a box of chocolates you never know what you will get.....
Now this is simplistic but a good start. To stabilize this CG/Paki strain one really needs to grow out many selective trials. It can take many years and thousands of plants to "weed" out what traits you are looking for. Bud Man get on your tissue culture and you can avoid all this mess.....
Note: A common technique to stabilize a cannabis strain is called "cubing", in which the breeder will seek specific traits in the hybrid offspring (e.g. greater resin production, tighter node spacing, etc.) and breed said offspring with a parent plant (your favorite Landrace). The same traits are sought in the new inbred offspring, which are then again bred with the original parent plant. This process is called cubing because it usually repeated across three (or possibly more) generations before a strain can be considered at least somewhat stable.
Seed shops sell both pure strains that have specific aspects stabilized as well as unstabilized hybrids that may be of questionable quality.
Most cannabis strains used today in North America are asexually propagated Sativa strains, that were bred hydroponically to produce large amounts of "bud".
This is a really complicated and time Consuming Endeavor.
Rule of thumb for the novice breeder:
Hybrid to hybrid the worst outcome but can be fun. What ends up happening when using this method is one gets all types of Pheno and possible Hermie. This is why so many so called Breeders hit and miss with strain development. They take others work and cross Hybrid to Hybrid and send these defective strains out to you....Plus get $3-10 a bean in the mean time. You get a few good girls and you forget all about it.
Ladrace to Landrace excellent! Then build off this with hybrid development. Years back the Haze Bros. got lucky and Crossed a Columbian with Thai and holy cow they came up with "Haze," now in most strains folks smoke these days.
Hybrid to Landrace good too. May get to where you want faster.
Landrace to Hybrid another great way to get to where you want faster.
Just remember, find a good variety of Landrace you are fond of and try breeding originally with these. If you can't, that's okay just have fun and cross those Hybrids to your hearts content. Maybe you will get lucky!!!!
For you enjoyment think of the possibilities. A list of Indica Landrace.
Landrace (Pure) Varieties.
■Afghani (Lowland, Highland — Afghan kush)
■Arab
■Chinese
■Iranian
■Lebanese
■Moroccan (Kif)
■North Indian
■New Zealand Sativa
■Pakistani
■Tajikistani
■Turkish
■Uzbekistani
Indica Developed strains from Landrace: INDICA Developed Varieties
■Afghani #1
■Bella ciao
■Butterscotch Hawaiian
■Early Girl
■Kush
■Lightstorm
■Mango
■Mazar
■Northern Lights #1
■Oasis (Northern Lights #2)
■Manghani (A very resinous Mango x Afghan)
■Southern Daze
■Millennium Bud
■Mongolian
■Mother of Mercy*
■Romulan
■Alaskan Thunderfuck
■Mad Shad
■Sour Bubble (ahx1)
■Superglue (SeediSm.nl)
■Taste Bud (SeediSm.nl)
Sativa Landrace strains: Landrace (Pure) Varieties
■African (Durban Poison, Swazi Red, Congolese, Malawi Gold, Angolese, Lesothan, Nigerian)
■Brazilian (Manga Rosa, Santa Maria)
■Burmese
■Cambodian
■Colombian (Columbian Red, Santa Marta Colombian Gold)
■France (reunion island: Zamal)
■Indian
■Japan (Hokkaido)
■Laotian
■Mexican (Acapulco gold, Oaxacan, Zacatecas Purple, Guerrero Gold, Michoacan)
■Nepalese
■Panama (Panama Red)
■Paraguayan
■Swaziland (Swazi Gold,Swazi Red "redbeard", Swazi)
■Thai (Juicy Fruit Thai, Chocolate Thai, Golden Triangle Thai)
■Vietnamese
■Pakistani
■Paraguayan
Sativa Developed Varieties:
■Appl
■Bambata (tikiseedbank)
■Big Mother Sativa
■Haze
■Kali Mist
■Koon Sucker
■Silver Haze
■Super Silver Haze
■Silver Sage
■PG-13
Now think of the possibilities if you take on a real deal breeding project!?!?! the options are endless......