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IceColdCrickets
F1 afs is interesting but the problem there is this after the initial first cross. I generaly would grow out all my seeds on 20/4 and select only my afs out the whole group and keep inbreeding this way for 3 to 4 generations but now we need to select our male and female from our f3s and backcross the f3 fem with the p1 male thats fine but we cant backcross the f3male to the p1 female cuz thre afs
What? I don't understand the problem? WHY must you backcross?,,The way you explain things is a little hard to understand, so bare with me here., A TRUE F1 is a corss made from 2 stablized IBL parents. example PURE HAZE x PURE LR. ZERO percent of this F1 population will show AF, almost all F1 AF hybrids with 1 non-AF parent will not show AF because of the reccessive AF traits, only exemption is when you cross a PURE AF x PURE Non-AF that has an unknown AF recessive trait, which is very rare.
For example the p1 male we can store the pollem to backcross but we cant take a cutting from the mother for the backcross ( well we pos could but then we would only be able to cause it to go hermi and collect its pollem wich still presents a problem!
Again why must you backcross? To make a pure IBL AF you dont need to backcross to get the AF trait stable. I am confused at what you are trying to create,, there is some information you are missing.
Lemme explain using non af strains to create a stable f1 hybrid one would cross to strains together then inbreed the offspring for 2 to 3 generations then they would cross the f3 offspring back to the p1 mother and father wich has been kept alive by taking cuttings then the offsping produced here is crossed together and this results in a stabelized f1 hybrid near on impossible to do with 2 af p1s
Gene-weaver. How the hell does a F3 Bx1 become a stable F1 hybrid,,, I mean what the hell are you talking about???? That in no way makes sense. Backcrossing to the P1 mother and father,, would produce F3 Bx1 P1 mother dominant unstable seeds, and F3 Bx1 Father dominant unstable seeds... then what would you do ,, breed these seeds together??? Producing an unstable miss match of F3 Bx2 F2s??? In no way will this stablize any traits. The only way to stablize is to Inbreed many generations. The term Stablized F1 hybrid is misleading,, after you breed them out from the original F1 you no longer have F1,, you have an IBL or Backcross, depending on the way you go,, Stable F1 Hybrids are only products of 2 PURE stable strains crossed to make the First Generation, where the genes are dominant and recessive, and only show as such, hence the stability. But if you think about it ,, they are NOT stable at all, once you make F2s of this so called STABLE F1 ,, you will get a miss mash of different plants. It is all a bunch of bullshit if you ask me. The term shouldn't be used when marketing new strains really. You need to look at your breeding book again, and figure out where you got the miss information,, breeding is simple, most people overthink it. Good luck.
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