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mattinuk3
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Nope mendel's laws still apply. Unless heavily inbred, polyhybrids will be heterozygous for most traits. Heterozygosity means vigor. In healthy populations, Heterozygous traits FAR outnumber recessive traits. Accumulation of recessive traits is mostly bad, with the exception in our case of traits related to potency and flavors.
Now, heterozygosity means that the plant can pass on one of two alleles and therefore is not true breeding. BUT, at the same time, most of the flavors we find in inbred lines of cannabis are recessive. This means that, in a polyhybrid cross, any selection based on flavor would quickly cause a homozygous recessive, and after one or two generations of inbreeding for flavors the offspring would be true breeding for that flavor.
Therefore, polyhybrids can or cannot be true breeding, based on how far inbred they are. So, if your polyhybrid has been inbred to stabilize certain traits such as flavor, those traits will be true breeding, even though other traits show variation such as plant structure or bud density.
For example, If a plant is crossed with diesel, and diesel flavor is selected for by inbreeding, even though the inbred generations of plants are a polyhybrid, they could still be true breeding for a recessive trait such as diesel flavor.
Now, heterozygosity means that the plant can pass on one of two alleles and therefore is not true breeding. BUT, at the same time, most of the flavors we find in inbred lines of cannabis are recessive. This means that, in a polyhybrid cross, any selection based on flavor would quickly cause a homozygous recessive, and after one or two generations of inbreeding for flavors the offspring would be true breeding for that flavor.
Therefore, polyhybrids can or cannot be true breeding, based on how far inbred they are. So, if your polyhybrid has been inbred to stabilize certain traits such as flavor, those traits will be true breeding, even though other traits show variation such as plant structure or bud density.
For example, If a plant is crossed with diesel, and diesel flavor is selected for by inbreeding, even though the inbred generations of plants are a polyhybrid, they could still be true breeding for a recessive trait such as diesel flavor.





