HonestGenetics420
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I had someone ask me a question over email that I’ve gotten on a few occasions. I’m gonna go ahead and post the answer here so that I can point people to this post in the future.
The question was are S1 and BX the same? This answer will also cover another common question I get, what’s a BX?
S1 and BX are completely different. S1 is less work overall and is always feminized. You just cross a clone with itself and that’s S1, if you cross an S1 with itself that’s an S2. And if you cross an S1 with the original clone that’s a S IX.
But BX takes another generation of work to make, possibly a few generations depending on what you do. The Mint Chocolate Chip BX I made is not a traditional BX, it’s 62.5% Mint Chocolate Chip because I used my Chocolate Frosting male and hit it to another strain I made that was a traditional 75% Mint Chocolate Chip BX. The result of that type of combination is known as a “weak BX”. However weak BX is a terrible name because this type of combination includes more vigor and also if done correctly is my personal favorite style of BX.
BX’s are usually regs. Not always, but usually they are.
The Dosidos BX I made is a traditional BX which means it is 75% Dosidos Genetics.
So to recap, S1’s are 100% genetics and are selfed clones.
BX’s are strains over 50% one strain and less than 100%.
True/traditional BX’s are 75% genetics of one clone
“weak” BX’s are 62.5% or less of one clones genetics
And BX2 and above are all 87.5% and up of one clones genetics
There’s another term that you sometimes see used as well called IX. An IX is when you take a plant from one generation and cross it with a clone of the same strain from a different generation. Thus reaulting in an “In Cross” or IX. Examples like F2 x F1, F5 x F3, F3 x F2, F7 x F1, etcetera are all examples of IX work. As long as it’s the same strain being bred across different generations it is an IX.
S means Selfed
BX means Back Cross
IX means In Cross
Can you have an IX that’s also a BX? Yes you can as long as the clone from the previous generation is also a parent to the plant in the later generation. An example of an IX that’s also a BX is the Symbiotic Genetics Purple Punch IX Seeds that they dropped. They used Purple Punch to make an F2 of the cross and then crossed it back to the Purple Punch clone, that’s an IX/BX combination.
If you didn’t already know all this, now you do
Also, the correct way to list genetics is always with the pollen donor second. So the male or reversed female should always come second. If you see someone list their pollen donor first then they don’t know the first thing about breeding lol
The question was are S1 and BX the same? This answer will also cover another common question I get, what’s a BX?
S1 and BX are completely different. S1 is less work overall and is always feminized. You just cross a clone with itself and that’s S1, if you cross an S1 with itself that’s an S2. And if you cross an S1 with the original clone that’s a S IX.
But BX takes another generation of work to make, possibly a few generations depending on what you do. The Mint Chocolate Chip BX I made is not a traditional BX, it’s 62.5% Mint Chocolate Chip because I used my Chocolate Frosting male and hit it to another strain I made that was a traditional 75% Mint Chocolate Chip BX. The result of that type of combination is known as a “weak BX”. However weak BX is a terrible name because this type of combination includes more vigor and also if done correctly is my personal favorite style of BX.
BX’s are usually regs. Not always, but usually they are.
The Dosidos BX I made is a traditional BX which means it is 75% Dosidos Genetics.
So to recap, S1’s are 100% genetics and are selfed clones.
BX’s are strains over 50% one strain and less than 100%.
True/traditional BX’s are 75% genetics of one clone
“weak” BX’s are 62.5% or less of one clones genetics
And BX2 and above are all 87.5% and up of one clones genetics
There’s another term that you sometimes see used as well called IX. An IX is when you take a plant from one generation and cross it with a clone of the same strain from a different generation. Thus reaulting in an “In Cross” or IX. Examples like F2 x F1, F5 x F3, F3 x F2, F7 x F1, etcetera are all examples of IX work. As long as it’s the same strain being bred across different generations it is an IX.
S means Selfed
BX means Back Cross
IX means In Cross
Can you have an IX that’s also a BX? Yes you can as long as the clone from the previous generation is also a parent to the plant in the later generation. An example of an IX that’s also a BX is the Symbiotic Genetics Purple Punch IX Seeds that they dropped. They used Purple Punch to make an F2 of the cross and then crossed it back to the Purple Punch clone, that’s an IX/BX combination.
If you didn’t already know all this, now you do
Also, the correct way to list genetics is always with the pollen donor second. So the male or reversed female should always come second. If you see someone list their pollen donor first then they don’t know the first thing about breeding lol
