What Makes a Strain?

I often think of the origins of the strains we so love, and I wonder where they start. If I were to produce a genetically stable phenotype, would I have the right to call my product a legitimate strain? Here are two different types I'm working with, and I'm starting a third today. Also, since it's all bagseed, I already know the characteristics of the high, but I have to determine the growing traits of these varieties. I'm quite new to botany in general, so any help would be highly appreciated.

If you grow a seed into a plant and find the plant has unique qualities you may make genetically identical clones of the plant and distribute these, which is technically referred to as a clone-only strain. A clone is the only way to propagate the exact genetic makeup that makes a strain unique, however, how the plant is grown greatly affects the finished product.
If you wish to develop a new stable seed strain, this process is more complicated and time consuming involving selectively choosing male and female cannabis plants and breeding them over the course of multiple generations. The final generation's seeds will have been stabilized by the breeder on the specific attributes chosen, though some genetic variation still exists among the seeds

u cant know a strain like that if ur tryin ta sell it jus tell them its sum dank

I create new strains for the traits I wish to keep, I dont sell anything. I have been cross breeding for 10 years now.

Woomeister said:

I create new strains for the traits I wish to keep, I dont sell anything. I have been cross breeding for 10 years now.

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In your experience cross-breeding, how often would formerly dormant beneficial traits express themselves? Have you ever stabilized any particular traits? If so, how many generations did it take to do it?

There B some huge heads in here!!!

Just trying to use what I'm learning to make my self-grown shit kick ass like a Rob Zombie flick. Hell, I may eventually get lab access too, so I want to find out EVERYTHING I can do to improve my crop.

DocTimmie said:

In your experience cross-breeding, how often would formerly dormant beneficial traits express themselves? Have you ever stabilized any particular traits? If so, how many generations did it take to do it?

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I have found that stabilising growth traits is the most accessible and is possible within 10 generations. I have had height restraints for many years where I grow so it has been important to me to get the stockiest shortest plants possible that grow thick branches so as to carry the weight. Stabilising flavour traits is something that personally I have found to take many more generations (partly because I am not growing hundreds of plants to select from) but, again, is accessible within 20 generations, I have a strain that I have been breeding for about 8years and it grows the same every time now.

jamesrock said:

There B some huge heads in here!!!

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why are you here then?????

Can't wait! ATM, I have 11 type "a" plants, and all of them are different. God only knows the genetic surprises that are waiting for me. "Stumpy" started as the runt of 15 type "a" plants. For about a month, she(hopefully) was developmentally about 1/3 the size/stage of any other plant. Now at 8 weeks, Stumpy has caught up with the rest and also happens to be the most beautiful 16/8 plant I have IMO. Here's Stumpy at 6 weeks.