end up with some plants that are non-uniform
for that trait.
The best way to achieve this process is as
follows. Find a female that you like and clone
this female and her farther. Take pollen from
the farther and pollinate the female. The
offspring should contain a 50%/50% of the genes
for both parents.
Take pollen from the males of that
offspring and mix them together. Pollinate a
clone of the mother. This step should insure
that selection is no longer random and you are
promoting the frequency of the mother’s traits
in the next offspring.
Repeat the process two more times and you
will have effectively CUBED (meaning backcross
x 3) this strain. This can push the mother
plants traits as high as 90% in a population
but we will probably get some non-uniform
plants in the offspring too.
Cubing does not really help us to select
for traits that we want, like in our Silver
Kush experiment. It simply helps us to keep a
few traits that a mother plant has. Cubing is a
common procedure adopted by breeders who find a
good healthy mother plant in a selection of
seeds that someone has given them.
This method can also fail very quickly if
your selection of males are the wrong choice.
