Hybrids

Marijuana Horticulture

by Jorge Cervantes

Hybrids are a product of a cross between genetically unlike parents. Hybrids retain their distinctive characters if reproduced asexually but fail to reproduce these characters completely or reliably when reproduced sexually.

Hybrid cultivars are developed by using available inbred lines or creating new ones from segregating populations, and then coupling selection with inbreeding for homozygosity, evaluation of inbreds for combining ability in hybrid combinations, and subsequent multiplication of selected inbred lines for hybrid seed production.