F6 and beyond: Good or Bad Idea?

[McMuffin]

@chunk take a read on this thread and see if it makes any sense. Lots of good information; it might seem like too much at first but just keep going back to it and will will start to make sense. There’s also the GrowFAQs. It’s funny that something so simple in concept can be so confusing. Just when I think I have it down…BAM! Back to the books.

Why would some cross an F5 with an F2?

@99PerCent, that would make sense. I was reading this GrowFAQ: The writer, @SubCool, confused the living hell out of me. He stated this: These statement leads me to believe that the F2 doesn’t need to involve an original parent, just a breeding of 2 F1 offspring. This makes a lot of sense to me. Wouldn’t the breeding using the original parents be an IBL? Shouldn’t the designation be IBL F2 for a second generation using an original parent? It also leads me to believe that an F2 is less…