You guys crack me up. A Strain, or Species, is different then a Hybrid. You just do not put two plants together and say you have a new Strain. Some people think they know everything, when In fact they themselves should do some research.

In biology, a species, or strain is one of the basic units of biological classification - a genus contains one or more species, etc.) A usable definition of the word "species" and reliable methods of identifying particular species are essential for stating and testing biological theories and for measuring biodiversity. A species consists of individual organisms which are very similar in appearance, anatomy, physiology and genetics due to having relatively recent common ancestors. Traditionally, multiple examples of a proposed species must be studied for unifying characters before it can be regarded as a species.


In biology, hybrid has two meanings.

The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa. Hybrids between different species within the same genus are sometimes known as interspecific hybrids or crosses. Hybrids between different sub-species within a species are known as intra-specific hybrids. Hybrids between different genera are sometimes known as intergeneric hybrids. Extremely rare interfamilial hybrids have been known to occur (such as the guineafowl hybrids).

The second use of "hybrid" is crosses between populations, breeds or cultivars within a single species. This second meaning is often used in plant and animal breeding. In plant and animal breeding hybrids are commonly produced and selected because they have desirable characteristics not found or inconsistently present in the parent individuals or populations. This rearranging of the genetic material between populations or races is often called hybridization.

Plant hybrids, especially, are often stronger than either parent variety, a phenomenon which when present is known as hybrid vigour (heterosis) or heterozygote advantage. Plant breeders make use of a number of techniques to produce hybrids.


So Some of you must believe that if an Irish man gets a Korean woman pregnant, you have just creatied a new Race of people. That is not the way it all works. You must cross breed your plants then go through a bunch of time proven test and such, and not just with clones either. People dabble a little in something, and never know what is really going on deep inside. So for all of you that think you can take one Species of plant and cross it with another, and you get to name a new strain or species of plant, you are wrong. You get to name a Hybrid, and nothing more.

Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.