Random or Precise?

So breeders, i have a question. Lets say i have 4 keeper plants that i want to integrate into strain (lets call them A B C and D) that i want to make for myself. Should you stay heterozygous until the end making it completely random, or should you try to select for you what you want the traits you want along the way. For example:

A. Heterozygous: Pollinate A with B. Select at random, one of their offspring (call it ABx). Pollinate it with C, then select a random ABCx. Then lastly pollinate with D. And select two of those for your first mother and father. Then start to wittle those two down.

B. Homozygous: Cross A with B, then pop an assload of ABx to select for traits. Find one cross it with C....pop another assload of ABCx, select for traits, then D...and you get the picture.


I was thinking that doing it the heterozygous way is the best way because you have a wider range of genetics to work with because its completely random until the end, and you will have a better chance of finding something amazing. But then i was thinking it would take you forever to stabilize it to a few phenos.


Any thoughts?

would this be breeding through feminization? or are 2 of your "keepers" males? it depends on the plants your talking about if 2 of them are ibls then i would suggest crossing those to the less stable plants and trying to pull in the one or 2 traits you like from the heterozygous plants into your new line while maintaining all you like about the ibl that would seem the easiest course to me

and really id say make 2 crosses (A x B) + (C x D) and work those until your satisfied and then make an f1 cross of those down the roadand you should have what your looking for

Always choose the most desirable traits and discard the rest. Assuming you start with 4 strains/plants that you are impressed with. ABCD *1st gen Breed : AxB AxC AxD BxC BxD CxD*2nd gen.
Taking your most prized pheno of each batch "AxB AxC AxD BxC BxD CxD" now cross ABxCD ACxBD ADxBC*3rd gen. Again taking the best one of each. (*both best male and female). Then cross ABCDxACBD and ADBCxABCD*4th gen take your favourite then do your final cross of a 4 strain infusion.. ABCDACBDxADBCABCD*5th gen pick out the best of the group (ABCDACBDADBCABCD)*6th gen and back cross them with your favourite original plant A B C or D *7th and last gen then grow that final strain over and over crossing the same gen males and females taking traits that you like until you stabilize then back cross it with the original "good good" find a plant that has stable expectable growth fem a batch and grow! It's confusing but then atleast all of the four strains are thoroughly infused in the one strain because each strain has been crossed against each other in many different variations so the final strain which we will call "good good" is really AxBxCxDxAxCxBxDxAxDxBxCxAxBxCxD should only take a couple of years ..confused?

I just made all that shit up btw.. hey it might work and seems logical for me but i ain't liable lmao

precision record keeping and selective breeding produce more predictable results.Personal I like predictable.But I am boring.I also like the 2 crosses idea this seems like a good place to start.
imo