Am I understanding this right?

johnny, I guess it's our fault for not clarifying, but you should never pollinate all the plants. just pick the best male and the best female and breed them.

speedhabit, personally, I think breeding is better, because with breeding you have the chance to improve the plants you grow and if you find a cool phenotype, you could try to breed it into a strain of it's own

Mr. Maryjane said:

johnny, I guess it's our fault for not clarifying, but you should never pollinate all the plants. just pick the best male and the best female and breed them.

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Agreed, one pollinated female is sufficient. I don't recall mentioning otherwise.

Ill rag on autoflowers all day, I hate the things....

Damn right GG, if a bit politically incorrect.

And Mr. Maryjane, you don't improve on cannabis by breading individual plants and enjoying the result, its takes multiple generations and hundreds of mature germinated seeds to isolate traits that you want to improve, it is not really something a novice gardener should be trying. Putting your best two plants together might have the potential to create that one seed thats better, but you need to grow all those out and be able to recognize outstanding traits.

I would say a foundation in growing clones and being able to appreciate how you can reproduce multiple genetic copies of various strains and phenos is required if you wanted to breed seriously.