I was down to my last seed of my full moon seeds. It grew but it ended up being a boy, so I let it go in my flowering room with some of my random seeds that i am growing. My question, How much of the full moon strain will be part of the new seed that is mixed
Who has more dominance in the gene when a seed is created? Is it more on the father plant side or more on the mother plants side?
The quick answer is that the first generation offspring will contain roughly 1/2 the genes from each parent.
Note that even though the plants will probably express some traits from each parent, this does NOT mean that the plants will be "half-way" between the parents in terms of height, potency, etc, because genes don't work that way.
As to the rest of the comments in this thread, there is a big difference between hand-selecting the best plants from a brood and crossing them over many cycles (ie deliberate breeding), vs. allowing plants to open-fertilize outdoors "accidentally" (ie what Clarke described in the excerpted paragraphs above).
Since outdoor-grown plants won't naturally self-select for potency, compact growth, yield, etc, if you want those traits to develop or persist, you have to deliberately select for them yourself. If you don't select for these traits, with random pollination they'll eventually disappear under natural selective pressure in large outdoor grows.
Make a short list right here right now of true breed strains or landraces and where to find them easily
You're kidding, right?
True breeding strains: Northern lights #5, Skunk #1, White Widow. These three are also all vigorous, relatively easy to grow, highly potent, and still probably literally the #s 1, 2, and 3 more popular strains on the planet.
Other old school true breeding strains you may have heard of: Hindu Kush, Big Bud, Blueberry, Bubblegum, Early Girl, Power plant, Hash Plant, Grand-daddy purple (aka Humboldt purple, aka purple urkle), etc. All of these are 20+ years old, and versions of most (if not all) are still readily available anywhere you can find seed selections.
Where can you get them "easily"? Hop on a plane, take the 20 minute ride downtown from Schiphol and you can literally buy the seeds off the shelf at any one of half-a-dozen seedbanks in Amsterdam, in labelled packages from reputable breeders like Sensi seeds.
If Europe is too far, you could do the exact same thing with several seed banks on the West Coast of Canada, near Vancouver.
Passport not in order? OK, in any major metro area in CA you can find clones of same for sale, either from reputable dispensaries, or even from individuals listing on Craig's list for under $10! You do need the proper Med MJ card to buy, but those aren't too hard to come by (certainly easier than flying to Europe!), and I suspect you can probably find individual sellers who might not care.
Now, buying a clone from someone's backyard won't give you the same likelihood of authenticity/quality that you'll have buying directly from a reputable breeder, but I can tell you for sure that many of the clones being sold this way are in fact exactly what they are billed to be.
As to "landrace" strains (which are more appropriately called "heirloom" strains, I think), well known ones that shouldn't be too hard to acquire would include Acapulco Gold, Afghan #1 (or some variant of a pure Afghani), Malawi Gold, and Durban Poison. There are plenty of others out there from Africa, Jamaica, etc, though again, they're a bit harder to find commercially.
This is not because they aren't good, but because almost by definition, landrace strains were optimized for large scale outdoor grows under particular climate conditions. Change from a tropical/desert/jungle/equatorial/etc climate to a typical North America one, or try to grow them indoors, and they won't do as well as strains optimized for those sorts of grows. In other words, the true landrace strains just don't meet the needs of the majority of seed-buyers, and with lower demand comes lesser supply.
