Breeding with females

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@Fuel

Because with the S1 you have forced the phenotype to intensify its expression “totally” and in one shot, at this point you’re knowing the inherent equilibrium of the phenotype in term of traits prevalence. But not its potential in term of segregative dynamic, which is locked and catalyzed by the process itself.

I appreciate your trying to answer my question, but if you want to be helpful, you will need to dumb it down. As I said, I’m not a professional breeder, just a home grower trying to preserve strains with minimal space and time.

@fuel or anyone else who cares to answer… Let me rephrase the question:

There is a well established procedure of stabilizing strains thru back-crosses e.g. Cindy 99. The process involves creating an F1, selecting a male from the offspring, and crossing it back to the mom. My question is very simple, would the same process work with a feminized line? i.e. create an S1, select the offspring that most resembles the mom, reverse it and pollinate the mom. Rinse, repeat. Works as well as a traditional BX, better, worse, does not work at all?

@Fuel

It’s exactly the same problematic that with a normal backcross

Is your argument that back-crosses also do not work? There seem to be quite a few examples in the cannabis world where it has been done successfully.

@Fuel

I’m supposing in the example that your reference is a given elite clone that you want to produce in a stable form in seeds (just because it’s the most tryed option since ages, it add indirectly an extra of rationality in the discussion). So, the genotype carryed by the reference is wider initially, not allready narrowed by the potential of an unique phenotype.

Why not use the example of my actual use case? No idea what the last sentence means, sorry. Maybe you are saying that by creating an S1, I’m making it more genetically diverse?, but that is why I want to then do a BX.

@Fuel

Always the same mantra. You don’t have to justify your methods to anyone if you’re obtaining decent results; seriously

I appreciate that sentiment, but I’m not trying to justify anything. I’m trying to explain what I want to do and how I’m hoping to achieve it. I’m doing that in the hopes of getting a clear direct answer from someone who knows, such as yourself.

Again, I really appreciate you taking the time to write a long detailed reply, but it does not help if I can’t understand it or apply it to what I want to achieve.