True Breeding Hybrids??

[symbiote420]

I'm having a stoner moment right now. I've been sponging all the breeding literature, posts, and materials I can get my hands on over the last decade ....I'd be lying if I said it's still not confusing at times.

We all know that an IBL breeds true and a hybrid when bred shows a lot of variation. OK now comes the trippy part, there are three strains I've been growing over the past couple of years that have been widely accepted as being hybrids but as I look at the many hybrids of each strain it's got be scratching my bald head over here that may OG Kush, The White, and Bubba Kush are not hybrids after all but actually true breeding worked strains!

 

[RustlewoodNW]

I think I see what you mean...like a plant's traits surpassing both parent's traits and or entirely unique expressions? There's some hybrids that come to mind.....

 

[bigshrimp]

The word hybrid is thrown around in few different ways.

A f1 hybrid is a cross between two unrelated strains. First generation (f1) will exhibit near uniform characteristics due to dominance relationships.

The word hybrid is also used to describe anything that is a sativa Indica cross.

Breeders and pollenchuckers used the word differently beware.

 

[symbiote420]

Thanks for the replies gents, Rustlewood was closer to what I was gettin' at, I was talking about the possibility of the White, OG Kush, and Bubba being true breeding strains and not hybrids which they're widely accepted as! All three show minimal variation in their S1 progeny and really shine when bred with other strains, no matter how dominate or true breeding they are. Probably could toss the Sour Diesel in there too!

 

[Grrrilla]

The Sour D I have is like that... My seeds came from a local grower...My thinking is that its been around this area long enough that its been IBL'ed(for lack of a better term)and now demonstrates many true breeding traits...

 

[komboloi]

The Sour D I have is like that... My seeds came from a local grower...My thinking is that its been around this area long enough that its been IBL'ed(for lack of a better term)and now demonstrates many true breeding traits...

I think this is quite common. Any hybrid, if inbred and backcrossed, should eventually breed true as you successively homogenize the genetic makeup of the line. I think... I'm no geneticist.