do you wanted to be picking a male and female from each generation to make the next or breed them back to a parent?
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Iād avoid breeding back to the parent, unless you just canāt find the desired characteristics in the next generation.
Plants have a more forgiving genetic make up when it comes to inbreeding but one shouldnāt press ones luck.
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i still donāt understand really about heterozygous and homozygous. so is it possible for polyhybrid crosses to be homozygous at āF1ā?
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I donāt either, but never the twain should wed. 
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You can get an idea here. Itās pretty basic, but hard to explain.
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LOLā¦ Itās grade-10 biology, no conspiracy.
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Sounds like some damn Rusky Bot bullshit meant to make me vote republican. 
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Bot has been compromisedā¦end transmission.
-KGB
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yeah thats what i was reading before asking, its like french to me.
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Aight, so imagine an allele is one Lego brick, and again letās just use one trait as an example. How about the smell of the buds.
Each different smell is encoded on each allele. Letās say a blue Lego smells like berries, and the yellow Lego smells like skunk, the green smells like pine. If there are only blue Legos available the plant is homozygous, if the mother gave a blue and the father gave a green, the plant is heterozygous. If the father offered a yellow and the mother had none to offer, thereās another term that I canāt remember at the moment.
Granted this if hella oversimplified, itās just a way of putting breeding projects down on paper and successful breeding projects are not dependant on this knowledge. With computers and gene sequencing you can start a million plants on the equator, test each and every single plant, and tell the computer what your final plant should look like. The computer will then tell you which plants to breed together to get what youāre looking for.
That is the future of breeding
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even simpler?:
homos f1āing= IBL/PUREBRED X OTHER-IBL/PUREBRED
heteros f1āing= ANYHYBRID X SOMETHINGELSE
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this thread is a storm to beginner me.
overgrow breeding glossary for FAQ?
c.s
edit: p.s. ā¦very tempted to make bad jokes about young F1 drivers 
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Iām a beginner in the science of breeding as well so Iām not sure if youāre praising the thread or confused by it. Lmao 
Edit: Everything weāre struggling to wrap our brains around is explained here.
https://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformationmodule=957885794
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Fascinating, all kidding aside @Worcestershire_Farms!
Excelent my friend. You guys are skoolinā oleskool and itās greatly appreciated.
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confused mostly, but thanks for that link. bookmarked it because iāve just come out of trim jail. scissors lead to hash & i ate a bunch of raw trim this morning. phyew!
(stuck together)
c.s
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Nice videos @Scissor-Hanz. Some additional interesting videos from the same author:
Genes, Alleles, and Loci
Punnett Squares - Dihybrid Cross
Something off topic but good to know: Acidity, Basicity, PH of Salts in Solution
Then, there is this neat calculator (be sure to click the frequency button):
Punnett Square Calculator
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Uuhhhā¦ good bye. 
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I feel you. People can write about shit and use all the fancy terms and make it sound so difficult to understand. Lots want to pull quotes from RCās book which may be one of the most boring books I ever read. Iāll normally try and read it on a plane. Sure fire way to put me to sleep.
Best advice I can give if you want to breed, is just do it. I been at it almost 40 years and couldnāt quote half the stuff people talk about online, but I know what to look for to make things happen.
Also, if there is a lot of hype around a certain strain chances are itās just that. Most wouldnāt know a good genetic if it hit them upside the head.
BreedByExample
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