Breeding F5?

[Blu_tri]

This is why, even though I only breed for myself, I have resorted to going all the way back to the landrace Sativas I love and working it from there. I never plan on marketing them or even trading them. My only stupid goal is that by the time I retire, I have found what I’m looking for and produced thousands of seeds. Then as I travel this the country by RV, bike, and backpack drop seeds everywhere I go. Any fertile looking piece of land and especially any gardens around government buildings. :smoking:As I said, stupid, but something I have always wanted to do.

I like to toss a few in fishing or hiking areas. There is nothing like sitting on the edge of a creek fishing and smoking. Well smoking.... I don’t even care if I catch anything sometime. It’s great until the Bigfoots start making racket and scare us off. Paranoid!! Lol.

 

[PollenSax]

Yes you have to test each batch of hybrid seeds, especially with autos, since you can't keep them in clone, you can't be sure they will make good hybrids every time, but a simple Hybrid is only from 1 cross of 2 stable strains. The F1 cross. If you work it past F1, it's not a hybrid anymore, but new mixed "strains", because the recessive traits don't start showing up until F2. F1 of a cross shows only the dominant traits.
The main thing is that the parents of the F1's must be stable before you cross.
But you won't know what the hybrid will be like, until you test it. The whole batch should be very similar to the tested ones tho.

Edit:
Whoops. I'm sorry. I been reading too many vegetable breeding books, LOL. Apparently with weed seeds, since there's males and females on different plants (Dioecious), then only 50% of the offspring will look the same, and Cannabis breeders have to choose from those, keep selecting, and inbreeding the offspring until F4 at least, to be a stable hybrid strain.
That's really been messing with my head!
I didn't mean to be spreading disinformation.