Breeding same strain

yes of course you can. you may end up with a mixed bag of phenos that your not expecting to get.

Thanks, not sure I understand the word phenos, can you elaborate? I feel like a dummy.

when you grow a pack of seeds theres some plants better than others some will be big some small smells may be diferrent people keep their best phenos as a mother plant or breeding
you can breed the same strain but the hardest part of breeding is finding the best male you can make the strain stronger and more stable but if you pick a shitty father plant its not going to be as good you can tell your best female easly but it takes expeirence for picking males

Originally Posted by DeeTee

Thanks, not sure I understand the word phenos, can you elaborate? I feel like a dummy.

Yea and to determine if the male was/is good you would have to grow the off spring and see what it produces.. I pick my males based on smell and structure so far I've been getting winners(knock on wood)

also, phenos can vary a lot of you back cross a cross of 2 different strains. when you first do it, you get plants that are mostly in between the two original parents, but when you back cross, you get a full pheno expression with a wide variety of offspring with a mix of each parents traits. when you back cross & select enough times though, then you stabilize a strain and have something that will "breed true" like the original IBLs (in-bred land races) that were the original building blocks of everything.

you don't want to keep in-breeding though. once you stabilize a strain, in-breeding will eventually lead to genetic waning the same way keeping a clone mother too long or taking clones of clones can happen making you need some fresh new genes to restor hybrid vigor.

Hey thanks a lot for all the response, gives me something to think abt.

if you'd like to do a little reading on the subject, i bet there's at least SOME info on breeding as well as all kinds of useful info about everything else here
http://www.greenmanspage.com/guides/breeding.html
i even skipped to the breeding link for ya, but check out the home page. there's a lot of free info there

Hell Yes you can. Are you crazy. Get Viable seeds.

Originally Posted by DeeTee

Someone said that you can't breed the same strain, example: if I grow afgan kush and one's a male can I polinate the female and get viable seeds?