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A lot of clone-only strains, such as Blues and Exodus Cheese are just particular phenotypes of a strain, Skunk #1 that stand out from the rest. If you were to grow a pack of the version of Skunk #1 they came from, you probably wouldn't get a similar phenotype showing up that would be worth keeping and passing around to fellow growers. However, like a group of monkeys typing out the works of Shakespear, I would imagine growing out enough packs of the seeds would eventually yield a phenotype that rivals these legendary strains in flavour, yield, stink etc.
So, what I want to know is how many individuals in a population of a given strain would you normally expect to have to grow out on average to find such an unusual strain? I would guess it takes a certain combination of alleles in a genotype to express the right pheno you're after in a good, constant environment and that like a game of bingo this combination will probably show with high enough number of roles of the genetic dice.
I really would love to find such a killer phenotype but don't know where to start. Am I looking at say 200 individuals? Would I be more or less likely to find such a phenotype in the F1 or F2 generation? There is more variation in the F2 cross, but also more 'noise', in that the good traits will be drowned out by a lot of undesirable ones i.e. licorice allsorts.
So, what I want to know is how many individuals in a population of a given strain would you normally expect to have to grow out on average to find such an unusual strain? I would guess it takes a certain combination of alleles in a genotype to express the right pheno you're after in a good, constant environment and that like a game of bingo this combination will probably show with high enough number of roles of the genetic dice.
I really would love to find such a killer phenotype but don't know where to start. Am I looking at say 200 individuals? Would I be more or less likely to find such a phenotype in the F1 or F2 generation? There is more variation in the F2 cross, but also more 'noise', in that the good traits will be drowned out by a lot of undesirable ones i.e. licorice allsorts.