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Note in the picture there are three plants. The one in the foreground is a Barney's Farm LSD strain which is a hybrid of Skunk #1 and Mazar - a solid Indica variety. This one in the foreground is expression the "sativa" growth pattern phenotype of the LSD hybrid. the two LSD plants just to the left that are quite a big smaller but bushier with much heavier branching and will probably yield more than this taller sativa variety. This is what you look at if you intend to do any breeding - which I would discourage, actually. If you must then I think you owe it to the world to grow a plant out like this with seedlings, get to know the strains different phenotypes, looking for something just so, and you have to harvest it and smoke it to know. Then you decide that you like say the Indica phenotype of a certain strain and you know what it looks like in grow phase now because you have seen it before. You look for a particularly hearty plant of this type and then breed that. Boy was that easier said then done.

But there are so many great strains in existence now, I would not mess with new strains unless you are pretty serious. The process could be fraught with difficulties and if you are only growing a small amount for personal, medical use, your breeding program could negatively impact your medicine program. You will have to grow out male plants or mess with serious hormones - no thank you - so this is what I mean by impacting your yields. Then you have to keep back crossing it for many generations so it's a big commitment, I think - like buying a pet! If you do so, settle in patiently because you have five plant generations of work to do! Here's where I would grow in soil - just a huge maybe ten inch deep soil bed and I'd grow out hundreds of these seeds for a couple weeks at a time looking for that special one. When you work with a strain numerous times and pay attention, you will learn to spot the phenotype you are looking for even at this early stage. Hard as you try, they will bounce back to forms you do not want and every generation you'll have to go through this until you see as consistent a plant as possible to what you want coming up when you sow your new strain.

Go ahead and give it a shot - you'll never complain about paying 10 dollars a seed again! LOL