Lineage and How Breeders Make These Crosses

[SweetLeafGrow]

I have a question about lineage of a particular strain. Most times whenyou buy seeds they have the mother and the father of the cultivar, Mother listed first and the Father last with the X in the middle indicating a cross. For example, I got some seeds from Compound called stay Puft which is listed as Marshmallow OG X Grape Gas. Simple enough, right?

But sometimes you see 3 or more strains in the lineage of a strain and I wondered how that works. For example, I just got some seeds from Brother Mendel and there was a freebie (His freebees are awesome right out of his catalog, not a tester) called Pre 2003 AK-47 F2 and it lists it's lineage as Colombia x Mexico x Thailand x Afghanistan.

Pre-2003 AK-47 F2(Fem) – Go Mendel

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So my question is, how does it all work when there are more than 2 parents in the strain?

 

[GrumpAzz]

Columbia Grandma, Mexico grandpa X Thai Grandma, Afghani Gandpa?

 

[Bandit420]

I have a question about lineage of a particular strain. Most times whenyou buy seeds they have the mother and the father of the cultivar, Mother listed first and the Father last with the X in the middle indicating a cross. For example, I got some seeds from Compound called stay Puft which is listed as Marshmallow OG X Grape Gas. Simple enough, right?

But sometimes you see 3 or more strains in the lineage of a strain and I wondered how that works. For example, I just got some seeds from Brother Mendel and there was a freebie (His freebees are awesome right out of his catalog, not a tester) called Pre 2003 AK-47 F2 and it lists it's lineage as Colombia x Mexico x Thailand x Afghanistan.

Pre-2003 AK-47 F2(Fem) – Go Mendel

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So my question is, how does it all work when there are more than 2 parents in the strain?

It's telling you the origins of what makes up each parent.
AK47 is one of the original hybrids crossing a sativa with indica and the result being a stable, early ripening, sativa leaning hybrid.
So that cross is telling you one parent was a sativa from South America with the Colombian and Mexican landrace crossed with an indica with heritage from Afgani and Thai landrace strains.

Since the origin is Serious, you can also track that down to cross reference

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That one is fairly ez to track down even with something like 30 breeders claiming an AK47 and it's origin being Serious.
Without that info though it could also be a way of telling you it was an open pollination with multiple dads pollinating a single or multiple females but without wording it as open pollination.

 

[growsinse79]

I have a question about lineage of a particular strain. Most times whenyou buy seeds they have the mother and the father of the cultivar, Mother listed first and the Father last with the X in the middle indicating a cross. For example, I got some seeds from Compound called stay Puft which is listed as Marshmallow OG X Grape Gas. Simple enough, right?

But sometimes you see 3 or more strains in the lineage of a strain and I wondered how that works. For example, I just got some seeds from Brother Mendel and there was a freebie (His freebees are awesome right out of his catalog, not a tester) called Pre 2003 AK-47 F2 and it lists it's lineage as Colombia x Mexico x Thailand x Afghanistan.

Pre-2003 AK-47 F2(Fem) – Go Mendel

gomendel.com

So my question is, how does it all work when there are more than 2 parents in the strain?

Nowadays, 95% of anything you can buy is part Afghan-Colombian-Mexican- Thai - Durban. Missing the Durban might be a good thing. Being f2 will be way cool to see what you get.