F2,F3,etc.

[uncledoug]

What does the F2 etc. mean? I notice when buying seeds some have this at the end of a strain name.

[Mr.furley]

It's the stage of stabilization a strain is in.

[Toker1]

From my understanding of genetic stability... and please note I only know enough to be dangerous. It’s the f1 and f2’s that are most stable.
The P1 are the pure land race strains... F1 is the result of breeding 2 p1 land races together. This chart doesn’t show it, but there is F1b also, which is the result of a F1 hybrid x p1 land race. F3...f4...f5... and so on are all the results of hybrid breeding. The further you go along in the generations, the more phenotypes you will typically see.

https://www.alchimiaweb.com/blogen/basic-nomenclature-cannabis-genetics/

[uncledoug]

Thank you Toker1, That helps me understand much better. I'll check out the link and see what I can learn, not that I'm going to use it but it would be nice to understand it.

[Toker1]

No problem. It’s good to know when purchasing seeds... because if the information the seed breeder provides is accurate, you can estimate how many you will need to pop in order to find that one desired pheno.

[Rwise]

Ok, how does this apply if P1M and P1F are the same plant?

[Toker1]

Doesn’t matter if it’s from the same strain. You will stabilize the traits for the next generation.