First Question From Interested Novice

It's a long process from what I've read. You need to grow-out multiple variants and then back-breed the best with the original, then repeat until you have a plant which produces seeds which predominantly display the traits you are after.
Selective breeding means that you don't know which will be tall and low potency or vice versa...you select the good variants and cull the rubbish. Then you pollinate back to the original mother. Then repeat, repeat, repeat. It takes quite a while to grow-out the generations needed to make a stable hybrid.

I haven't done it, but I've read a bit about it. So some details may not be quite right...

You make hundreds, if not thousands of hybrids. You then remove the undesirable plants, and continue breeding , just keep it up until you get what you want.

thanks for that guys. i was hoping that there might be some magic formula, like using the female with the height characteristics, with the male (or hermie) with the potency characteristics, and that would work.

Its obviously not that simple, but it would be nice if females tended toward certain tendancies and male tended toward the other??? Hope this makes sense!!

It all comes down to the strains used, the likenesses or variances in the strains. In some crosses the male will be more dominate in the outcome and others the females. There is no silver bullet at this point to know how the genetic codes are going to line-up. Someday we may have enough research done into the gnome to have a better clue as to what to expect. Of course, this is where the fun is, see what you have created and finding those phenos that are so precious and potent. Good Luck, learn patience and you will have years of enjoyment.