Just food for thought...
Working a plant into IBL is a dead end. It is the dead end that we are after, if we selected properly along the way, but a dead end of sorts.
I can take my dead ended IBL and cross it another strain to create another cultivar, or to introduce hybrid vigor.
If I keep the parental genetics, I can recreate my seeds.
At what point during all this do I need the male? And for what reason?
Perhaps to complicate things and make it harder to pin down the traits wanted for the IBL?
Are we creating and consuming cultivars, or are we trying to maintain a diverse landrace population?
Working a plant into IBL is a dead end. It is the dead end that we are after, if we selected properly along the way, but a dead end of sorts.
I can take my dead ended IBL and cross it another strain to create another cultivar, or to introduce hybrid vigor.
If I keep the parental genetics, I can recreate my seeds.
At what point during all this do I need the male? And for what reason?
Perhaps to complicate things and make it harder to pin down the traits wanted for the IBL?
Are we creating and consuming cultivars, or are we trying to maintain a diverse landrace population?