c99 x white widow question + rep

growingforfun

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ok so i got some c99 x ww from joey weed as a freebie from seedbay. i hear c99 is low yeild but dence and very nice smoke. WW is pretty good yeilding an great smoke so i assume its gonna be pretty nice but i dont really know. also there tester seeds so theres not alot of info bout them out there for me to find.
this is where i have the reason for this section of the forum... the seeds i bought to get those free was sourbubble. iv been wanting to make some seeds from my best male/female SB so i can have some backup seeds. but then i started to wonder if maybe a 3 way cross of c99 x WW x SB? what kinda things happens then? anything good since good parents or just a bad idea to mix them all. any info or helpful tip get rep :joint:
 

homebrewer

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I think if you're a cloner, then it's not hard to make a few crosses, isolate the female you like out of your several crosses, and then grow that multi-cross hybrid. I think when breeders take multiple strains like that in effort to come up with a stable strain, that's where it gets difficult.

You can certainly cross your strains any-which-way, but it can take years to stabilize that perfect strain in seed form. Again, if you're a cloner, make your crosses and pick the female with the traits you're looking for and make her your mom. Otherwise, you'll get a seed stock of wildly variable beans with varying degrees of traits from each of the parent plants.
 

canefan

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Homebrewer is right it will take many generations to stablize a breed but only one generation to have some fun and surprises. The first cross you are more than likely to get the dominate from each parent, however that being said you are also going to get surprises from the the past in your genetics. You just have to keep working on the traits you want and breeding back to it and finally someday you will get a stable strain. I have a few that I am working with now, in the 4th generation on some and I get all kinds of surprises still. I love the work though and have been pleasantly surprised with the results. The biggest gift to me is watching something that I made grow, smoking something I grew that is as good as the high priced seeds, even if it is in my own imagination. Best of luck and remember that in doing this if you want to be serious take lots of notes on what you are doing what with whom and what you crossed with what. Oh, one other thing is that you might want to start with strains that are similiar in the beginning to narrow your crosses to traits you know you already like and have the charactistics you are looking for in both plants.
 
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