J / Can you explain the process of creating a new variety ?
S / Basically you begin with two different pure strains or land races called parent plants. To have reached purity and trait selection you would have needed to collect these from an original area and flowered out quite large amounts to find something you were happy with, and by inbreeding a land race one can reduce down the genetics and traits to be within a certain range. Then when you have reached the desired effect of a mother plant and it breeds true with a selected male from the same genetics to have 70% similar traits in the S1 seed, you can consider this side ready to work with. You will need to do this also with a father side of the Cannabis plant. Considering many people do not find selecting a male easy or they simply do not know what to select, they tend to go for the use of chemicals to spray on a selected female to make feminized seeds...and not have to deal or keep alive male plants. Of course species can degrade or revert to intesexing (hermaphrodism) and no one can guarantee it will not. So creating a new strain is at least 2 years in work, while making female seed from a selected female clone takes 2 months !