Amen brother, i want so bad the OG KUSH F5 from humboldt seed co as regular seeds, they were all the same. I loved that OG. So stable.From the Experimentation section of my website:
"At the beginning, I decided to have two seperate variations of seeds. One would be straight matings of F1 to F1, F2 to F2, etc, a complete, inline bred seed. The other variation would be back-crossed, side-crossed, and forward-crossed more than a West Virginia hillbilly.
For the entire F2 generation, I used ideas I learned from Vic High on the BCGA forum and selected accordingly. There really wasn't a whole lot to it, as the plants were just so uniformly, consistantly good. There wasn't much variation at all, so I selected the most vigourous and dominant males to match up with best rooted females. F3 was just as stable, so that's when I started back-crossing.
Then 9/11 happened...
I decided to let the plants show me how they wanted to grow."
And that's what I've done since then.
From my experience out to F11, back crossing/side crossing is the way to go, mixing multiple generations, not just sequential ones. A strict, inbred, IBL line just kind of goes to hell after F7-F8, at least for me.
But what i forgot, i do search for a particular shape actually from the plants.
I do scrogging with few plants - i love it, its my style if u doing a other one its fine... everyone has his style.
But i do search for branching. Early on.
Can u explain side crossing ?
Would love to get tips from you, i do think i could learn a lot from you, and all of you guys, im to new to this thing.
Btw i dont think u should go past F8 without fresh genetic "blood". Of course u hit a wall some generations after.