It depend on what you do
Exemple 1 :
Cross 1 : A x B = AB (different influence of A or B in every seeds, and it dépends of the potential of influence of the mother and the father too)
Cross 2 : AB x AB = AB (here you can choose the female and male with the caracteristics you want but you are sure of nothing)
Cross 3 : etc…
Exemple 2
Cross 1 : A x B = AB
Cross 2 : AB x C = ABC (this exemple remember a friend that love make crosses : A is tasty, B is potent, C have a big yield)
Exemple 3
Cross 1 : A x B = AB
Cross 2 : A x AB (male) = AB1 (normally with more influences of A on average (only if A is same or more influent in the crosses than B)
Cross 3 : A x AB1 (male) = AB2 (even more influence of A (only if A is same or more influent in the crosses than B))
Cross 4 : A x AB2 (male) = AB3 (at this step you made a cubing (please see kaliman with his cheese. It’s a good exemple because Cross 3 has more with cheese than cross 4. Normally it’s the other way but law of nature is very complicate to understand)
They are a lot of possibilities, that’s why breeding is fun : you don’t contrôle nature and don’t know what will happen
So :
yes you have to try to know your results. Nothing is predictable in breeding
A can be more influent than B but less influent than C
the results of crosses like A x B or different than crossing B x A
the plants will loose vigor, only, if your crosses and grows are made indoor. If it’s made outdoor, children will have adapted more naturally to your climate (the mother has transmitted this adaptation to them because it is a natural phenomenon). You can try this phenomenon with plants,animals, even humans
When crossing siblings repeatedly (line breeding), you lose hybrid vigor. It’s not really due to selection. One way around that would be to breed seperate lines, each with a desired trait, then combine them to re-gain some hybrid vigor.
Thanks a lot man! This was a great answer and cleared a lot of questions. Hahaha, you motivated me to try and experiment by myself, breeding looks a little bit difficult and I was a little anxious about that. I’m really grateful.
That is cool but you’re not counting with the recessive traits so the possibilities are huge belong that it’s quite difficult to get a dominant treat in the first cross, or maybe not but, how in hell do you know if is dominant? For that you should cross it and see the offspring if it gets what you are looking a BX is more than recommended to fix those treats
recessive traits for exemple thailand landrace strains can be difficult to domesticate and take more years to develop the strain (exemple : ace seeds golden tiger, cannabiogen strains like destroyer)
polyhybrids like a lot of new growers or doing is quite impossible mission to contrôle some recessive traits (polybrid for me is AB x CD for exemple). That’s why some breeders limit 3 strains to make a new polyhybrid and they advertise : it’s not stabilized strain and you will find different phenos (I like it, it’s more choice in a single pack. Some people don’t like it because they search only one or two traits but appearing more times)
I know it’s dominant when I grow the results in like 30 seeds (statistics recommend 30 test samples).
For exemple breeders like Bodhi, TGA (RIP and much respect), and others, study a lot their males.
Bodhi’s strains are a good exemple of what I want to say. His males : wookie, appalachia, 88 G13 x Hashplant do different results depending on the mother he use in each cross (sometimes you see more seeds with fathers traits and sometimes it’s the mother that you feel much in the result)
Yes, except we would call it F1, F2, F3… The S notation is used, informally, to represent a plant that has pollinated its self. When siblings cross, it is a new filial generation. Back crossing can improve homogeneity as well as reintroducing some hybrid vigor.
Hm… interesting.
I think I will do that, I like the idea to refine some strain, specially at the beginning, work with hybrids and polyhybrids seems too lasting for a first time hahaha.
