Maximize genetic potentials before any breeding occurs is a lost concept. I remember we use to be so picky with strains when it came to breeding. We would only take genetics from someone who was a verified producer of top quality bud that we had smoked personally. Now we take genetics from some one who may not even be maximizing genetic potentials,and therefore weakening the genetics of cannabis varieties across the board if we are not careful. If you take plant that has been weakened by sub standard growing to make the genetic profile far from what the plant was originally and far from the genetics being maximized, then you breed that plant with some other plant you did the same thing to the results will be irreversible bad genetics even if is the 2 best strain crosses in the world. That is my opinion. You need to know how to grow extremely well and know what good genetics are before you breed and that is not the case with most breeders. Anyone can pollinate a plant, but to have grown the plant to its full potential and then cross breed it is the only way to go. Everyone is in a rush to get the next big thing out there. It's not really about that. I love new strains but I have wasted time and money on genetics only to find out they were just not what they say they are. Not that these companies are lying to us. They just don't realize what they are doing. This is all just my theory and opinion. I get genetics from people and the plant grows differently in my garden, sometimes better sometimes worse. People could have a plant for generations in soil and give it out to be grown in rockwool or other mediums and it doesn't grow the same and vice versa, you can get a cut from someone that has grown in hydro for 20 years and try to put that baby in soil it might not react well at first. But eventually you maximize the genetics as much as your skill allows, that is just a fact that no one grows exactly the same. That's good because variety is the spice of life but we don't want weak genetics. So the moral of my story..Don't breed unless you can grow like a pro.