pawpaw said:
I am very nearly certain this is nottrue. From H.Lewis' post a hybrid is not an IBL. A hybrid does notgrow true from its own seed. To produce a hybrid seed a crosspollination must be made each time. The vast majority of seeds onthe market are in fact hybrids. Other than those there are a handfulof landraces (naturally occuring IBLs) such as hindu kush, and manmade IBLs such as the original NorthernLights.
I think you got a little confused. It's easy to get all these terms mixed up.
Landrace is not and should not be stable like a hybridized inbred line. There should be several phenos expressing themselves. It is inbred but not selective breeding...except mom natures selection. but it's not what IBL means.
Inbred Line in the "growers" world is what Most strains on the market are. They breed true with little pheno variation. Hybrids that were selectively inbred (whether Bx, Selfed, cubing, or recurrent selection) to create an IBL. Thus why a lot of us frown on naming an F1 hybrid outcross prior to it going through a selection process.
FYI Northern Lights 1,2,5,9 all are hybrids that turned out to be extremely stable IBL. #5 being the best one. It is a hybrid of both indica and sativa. It is not a landrace. It is in your words. A man-made IBL which is the product of an F1 hybrid cross from two unrelated parents that was selectively inbred that gave the results of an extremely stable IBL. Not much different then White Widow, and many many other strains like cindy99, and well look at Ozzy's link.
One thing with seedbanks. They will use terms like IBL or Landrace just to justify higher price tag.
OGFAQ said:
An IBL (inbred line) is a genetically homogeneous strain that grows uniformly from seed.
A hybrid is a strain made up of two genetically unlike parents, IBL or hybrid.
When you cross two different IBL strains for the FIRST time, it is called the F1 generation. When you cross two of the same F1 hybrid (inbreed), it is called the F2 generation.
The process of selective inbreeding must continue at least until the F4 to stabilize the recurrently selected traits. When you cross two specimens of an IBL variety, you get more of the same, because an IBL is homozygous, or true breeding for particular traits.
So basically. an IBL was at one point a F1 hybrid. That was selectively inbred to breed true thus creating an IBL. If you take a outcross. then inbreed it by targeting specific traits. Then when the progeny of those seeds replicate the parents. You have made an IBL. Landrace is the purest form of an IBL...but landraces are NOT stable.