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Originally Posted by DJ Redrum
I'm not to sure what Stabilized Hybrid or Landrace Strains are, do you mean to add some male plants to get some seeds for next time?
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Stabilized Hybrids and Landraces are the types of seeds you can buy which are true breeding.
That means you can make your own seed stock and have some high quality seed forever.
Stabilized Hybrids are normal hybrids that have been worked for 20 + generations through a process of recurrent selection for homogeneous traits within the progeny.
Meaning they have been stabilized to breed true, so that when you plant some seeds they all come up looking pretty much the same.
You dont get a bunch of plants expressing sativa stretch for example.
A landrace is an inbred line that is also true breeding because over many generations in that native spot the same genes have been propagated.
An example of a Stabilized Hybrid is White widdow or Skunk.
A landrace would be Afghani or Hindu Kush.
Seed companies would love to just sell you fems seeds, that way you have to keep coming back for more.
But if you get some of your own true breeding strains you can make nearly all the special hybrids that are sold as fems.