The process of breeding multiple cannabis plants to produce a new strain. In order to cross-breed, first the grower must grow a male plant to maturity so that it is ready to release pollen. The pollen is collected and sprinkled onto a female plant in the early stages of flowering, which causes the female to go into seedling mode to use its energy to form beans inside her buds. When the seeds swell and become visible, the female plant is harvested and dried, with seeds ready to be collected. After growing out as many seeds as possible and choosing the best females
for future pollination, the process is repeated until you have a stable genetic line. After cross-breeding occurs, the new strain inherits traits from both parent plants, ranging from flavor profile, potency, appearance and more.
A crossbreed is an organism with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations. Crossbreeding, sometimes called "designer crossbreeding", is the process of breeding such an organism, While crossbreeding is used to maintain health and viability of organisms, irresponsible crossbreeding can also produce organisms of inferior quality or dilute a purebred gene pool to the point of extinction of a given breed of organism.
A domestic animal of unknown ancestry, where the breed status of only one parent or grandparent is known, may also be called a crossbreed though the term "mixed breed" is technically more accurate. Outcrossing is a type of crossbreeding used within a purebred breed to increase the genetic diversity within the breed, particularly when there is a need to avoid inbreeding.
In animal breeding, crossbreeds are crosses within a single species, while hybrids are crosses between different species. In plant breeding terminology, the term crossbreed is uncommon, and no universal term is used to distinguish hybridization or crossing within a population from those between populations, or even those between species.
English
Verb
cross-breeding
- present participle of cross-breed
Noun
cross-breeding (plural cross-breedings)
- a type or instance of breeding
