why continue buying seeds?

thanks for the replies thus far fellas, yes i am trying to get a quick answer =)

i understand that some plants are better than others even if they are from the same seed packet, but im trying to get a down to the point answer.

if i purchased a packet of seeds from a seedbank (durban poison for an example, again), and allowed 2 or more of them to pollenate each other, would the seeds produced through that be durban poison seeds and thus grow more durban poison plants minor differences aside, or would they be some kind of totally different trashweed?

some help with terminology would also be appreciated.

what does stabilized vs unstabilized in the world of seed mean and how do i tell? are the seeds purchased from seedbanks stabilized or unstabilized, if both what are examples of each?

f1 & f2? im guessing f1's are the original seeds and f'2 are the seeds produced from the plants grown using the f1's?

again thanks for any replies.

The reason the answers here don't seem clear is that genetics is not a simple thing. The quick answer to your question is, if you produce seed from your Durban Poison, and then grow out that seed, you'll end up with a fairly random combination of 1) males 2) females with "good" characteristics 3) females with "bad" characteristics. 4) females with some of both good and bad characteristics. You WILL grow plants, but the odds are that you won't be happy with the result. "Stablized" hybrids will produce less of this randomness.

So basically what you end up with is a numbers problem, based on your (probably small) sample size. In other words you probably don't have enough room to grow the 100's of plants that would be required for a successful breeding program.

That's why everyone here is going to tell you that your best bet is to find a few females that have good characteristics (referred to as the phenotype), and clone from those chosen females. The rewards from cloning are many, such as uniform height, uniform potency, uniform nutrient/light requirements, etc....which is why most people use clones.

Remember that most people here that are answering questions alot don't do this stuff half-assed. MJ growers are some of the best gardeners and plant geneticists in existance, so its sometimes not easy to get an "easy" answer out of them:-)


Dboy

I got sum durban poison. I will grow sum after my papaya and bubblicious. I will be creating a grow log on those strains.

Because most of the seeds from breeders are bred thoroughly selecting the best traits, which us small time growers have neither the space, time nor the "balls" to grow the amounts(of males) out ourselves. Dr shrooms(and dboy) said it best just trying to give the short answer you wanted :).