OG Kush... The purple pheno...

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I mean if you cross to plants that are of the same family, IBL, then the plant is homozygous right?
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Yes, crossing 2 plants of the same IBL (ex: Island Sweet SKunk, Federation seeds), you get offspring of the same IBL, and they are identical. The genes are all sorted out in a consistent way.

Its when you take that IBL and cross it with another plant that is different family that the offspring will be heterozygous. (is this correct?) Thus making it a F1 hybrid. !

Right. And these offspring do not even show a lot of variation amongst themselves because of the way the dominant genes are consistent.

So if you take a F1 and cross it with another F1 hybrid, do you get another F1. i.e: somaG13 x 4way = ? Is this a F1 hybrid that would be recognized like this. somaG13/4way? or would it be a F2 since the strains were both F1s and already heterozygous?!

You get what is usually referred to as a 'multiple hybrid'. I'm not sure if there is a different technical term for that.

I thought that to be a true F1 hybrid that you would have to cross two IBLs, or homozygous strains. !

Hm, I'm not sure how strict that is. Two different reasonably stable lines would produce something you could reasonably call an F1...

And can a F1 that is now heterozygous ever be inbred enough to be considered a homozygous IBL again?!

Sure! You just have to work with it and each successive generation just remove all plants showing traits that you don't want. That's the primitive way of breeding. It's more precise to actually identify the genotype of each parent through test crosses, and to do this, you want to find plants that carry homozygous recessive traits. It's really complicated though... the Greg Green breeder's Bible is a GREAT resource for this stuff.

I was told by some one that NL was a F1 but has since been inbred so many times that it is a stable breeding strain.!

So it would therefore be considered a stabilized hybrid, and even and IBL.

Am I even on the right track here, or am i way off. thanks!

Naw you're on target. Word.