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The Cannabis Breeder s Bible The Definitive Guide to Marijuana Genetics Cannabis Botany and Creating Strains for the Seed Market
I would recommend The Cannabis Breeders Bible as a resource if you're interested. Also, there IS a database of strains on Seedfinder and it's great for checking out lineages of strains.
>I'm sure whatever strains a and b were bread from will want to rear their heads in some of the seeds
Yup. That is the exact problem with F1 hybrids; you get a whole mess of traits from each parent randomly expressing themselves in the seeds. The trick is to get a good phenotype you like (big, good flavor, whatever)and then isolate it by backcrossing it with the parent. You basically want to interbreed the plants back into each other until they stop showing large variation (called stabilizing). It's a little more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
Most growers do not actually do any breeding though. Normally, if we get a good phenotype from a seed we will just keep cloning that plant. It's much easier than breeding.
Here's a very brief rundown of some basic breeding info. It's actually enough to get you started as at it's most basic, you simply have to use pollen from a male plant, apply it to a female plant's buds and you're breeding.
For more in-depth and advanced coverage though, The Cannabis Breeder's Bible and Marijuana Botany are both good books with tons of info to get you started.
https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Breeders-Bible-Definitive-Marijuana/dp/1931160279
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Marketing PR for money. They aren't breeders.
The Cannabis Breeder's Bible: The Definitive Guide to Marijuana Genetics, Cannabis Botany and Creating Strains for the Seed Market Paperback – April 15, 2005
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