As dispensaries falsely advertise, using bait and switch tactics, such as offering potent top shelf strains while actually selling feral ditch weed smuggled in from Tijuana, growing your own is a much more likely way of obtaining decent weed. Quality seeds will usually have an 80% germination rate, so a five pack of seeds ought to provide four plants. With a limit of four plants per household, you will want all female plants. Breeding necessitates hundreds of phenotypes in order to have the widest selection from which to isolate desired traits.

Buy 'Feminized Seeds', which have been manipulated to produce all female plants.

Chocolope, by DNA Genetics, is potent, high yielding Sativa dominant, high in THC, low in CBD, flowering in 9 weeks.

LA Ultra, by Resin Seeds, is a predominately Inda hybrid cross between OG Kush, G-13, and LA Confidential. It's high in CBD as well as THC, producing high yields, flowering in 7 weeks.

http://www.sensibleseeds.com/idevaffiliate…

If you want to try your hand at breeding with a four plant limit, then you might get lucky with an F1, first generation. As long as you use two stable strains to cross, the the F1 seeds ought to be consistent, but it might not have the exact combined traits which you seek. It can take thousands of crosses with a widely divergent assortment of phenotypes to acquire the combination desired, but there are quite a few wonderful F1's on the market. The trouble with growing from crosses of F1's, is that the next generation, F2, will result in the greatest variety of phenotypes, so you will not get the same plant that you grew the first time. Bottom line, keep buying factory fresh feminized seeds for each new crop, or else move to California, get a medical permit, and grow up to 100 plants per crop. The best breeders plant thousands per crop, however, in order to maximize diversity of selection and speed up the development time. It takes at least 7 generations, F7, to stabilize a strain, so that the F1s will all be consistently the same. That being said, sometimes you can cube a back crossed F1 with one of the original stable parent strains, and get a tolerably stabilized strain, if you are satisfied with that resulting strain.

A Punnett Square shows the genotype*s two individuals can produce when crossed. To draw a square, write all possible allele* combinations one parent can contribute to its gametes across the top of a box and all possible allele combinations from the other parent down the left side. The allele combinations along the top and sides become labels for rows and columns within the square. Complete the genotypes in the square by filling it in with the alleles from each parent. Since all allele combinations are equally likely to occur, a Punnett Square predicts the probability of a cross producing each genotype.

http://scienceprimer.com/punnett-square-ca…

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/g…

Lemon Thai Kush, by Humboldt Seeds Organization
Sativa dominant, high THC, moderate CBD
Hugh yield, flowers in 10 weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-go-tYUng…

The Ancient Mariner of Weed ^

Come On and Kick Me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BGLtqqkVI…

I'm just say'n there's no point in buying regular seeds unless you intend to breed new strains, but if you intend to adhere to the four plant limit, then it's best to grow all females with Feminized seeds. Sure, most regular seeds cost less than Feminized, but by the time you've bought soil, nutrients, and the electricity plus the cost of lighting, the savings on seeds actually costs you exponentially compared to double the yield with twice as many plants. Besides, if you search around, some good seed companies offer Feminized seeds for less than other fine companies charge for regular seeds.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Iron Maiden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA

Lemon Kush Feminized by Female Seeds has a unique strong herbal lemon aroma & flavour, it is mostly indica in structure with small hard nugs & with a little stretch towards the end. Lemon Kush Feminized is also suitable for outdoors in temperate climates, where the grapes and citrus grows. Harvest end September - half October. Recent reports from southern Europe have shown 1kg excellent quality bud per plant !! (2012)

Features:
Sex: Female
Type: Indica Dominant
Yield: High
Flowering Time: 8-9 Weeks
Genetics: Chitral Hindu Kush

4 FEM
Sensible Price: $12.85

10 FEM
Sensible Price: $30.52

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Of course, if you want to play Johnny Appleseed outdoors in the wild.

Malawi is the most powerful and psychedelic landrace sativa we know. Its dense flowers of enormous trichomes compete with the most powerful indica/sativa and indica hybrids on the market in reference to their size and cannabinoids
concentration.

The potency of their flowers is simply devastating, and it is especially
recommended for experienced smokers that seek extreme sativa effects without renounce to an abundant harvest.

Although this sativa shows all its potential in tropical/subtropical climates, it has been grown with very good results in latitudes up to 43ºN.

Indoors for growing small columnar plants or SOG, you should start from the clone or seed at 12/12 just a few days after the rooting. This sativa is highly recommended for SCROG, horizontal or network growing due to its excellent production of lateral branches and its vigorous reaction to pruning.

We only recommend Malawi for the hardest and most experienced smokers because its extreme power usually “destroys” the majority of the smokers. DO NOT mix it with alcohol and DO NOT use any dangerous machinery under its effect.

Malawi Gold Regular from Seeds of Africa is a notorious strain also known as “chamba” . Malawi Gold regular grown exclusively in the Central and Northern Regions of Malawi ”Chamba” is, considered internationally, as one of the best sativas in Africa. This Gold standard sativa has a pineapple flavour and a very sweet taste.

12 REG
Sensible Price: $28.11

http://www.sensibleseeds.com/idevaffiliate…

Enigmatic Ocean
Jean-Luc Ponty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQv0sjMH6qw

Captain Fingers
Lee Ritenour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YZE8Vz00dc