Breeding your own strain?

High, I'm planning to fool around with breeding my own strain so I have a few questions if anyone can help me out.

#1 - Does it matter which strain I use for the father/mother? do they tend to lean towards traits of one or the other?

#2 - Is it better to cross plants both grown from seed, or would it matter if I used pollen from a seed grown male to pollinate a clone?

#3 - Anyone have a good source of cannabis geneology so I can better aim at creating something original?

#4 - Think hindu kush would make a good dad or do you think he's got so many kids out there that he can't contribute much to originality?

This should answer your questions... https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=category&id=82

Cannabis breeding requires a lot of experience. You have to grow out hundreds of seeds and isolate traits in both male and female plants. This requires a lot of time and equipment.

You need an good deal of grow experience, a tremendous amount in fact, in order to recognize and replicate traits in cannabis. This is the kind of skill that ppl make careers out of. One shouldnt expect to grow out a handfull of plants for seed and expect to make any impact on cannabis breeding. Even if you came upon a mutation or chance seed that turned into the next monster high, it would be impossible to stabilize and maintain the genetics.

I am not saying you dont have the experice to be a breeder and I dont want to discourage anyone from attempting to improve the weed we all smoke. Its just I see alot of growers who are inexperienced like myself set their sights on breeding when its more important to get a few grows under your belt, get a perpetual setup going with mothers and clones, and get a few different sets of genetics in your mother room before you even consider becomming a cannabis breeder.