Marijuana Breeding Explained

Learning about the different strains can be intimidating, because you could wonder what a cross of this and that strain is, and what a hybrid or a land race strain is, or what a predecessor strain is. All of those have to do with plant breeding — essentially, breeding a gentleman and female plant to combine or refine the DNA of two variations or strains. Breeding two different strains often results in a new strain, or hybrid.

Weed breeders generally breed to purify and strengthen strains, combine strain traits, or enhance specific characteristics.
Marijuana breeders generally breed to purify and strengthen strains, combine strain traits, or enhance specific attributes like higher harvests, specific aromas, strength, and several other things.

Once cultivating and breeding, it’s key to know where your seeds come from and what sort of DNA they have. If the seed breeder can’t give you an elaborate history of how a packet of seeds was bred or what they were crossed with, you never really know what you’re getting.

How to Breed Marijuana Plants

Pot flowers can be either male or female. Pot users are generally mainly concerned with female ferns, because only ladies produce the sticky nuggets that we all know and love. Nevertheless male weed flowers tend to be key for the breeding…