@Krypto Start with phenotypic breeding of genotype trait, breeding by eye sight for traits that will show in anyones garden. Use punnett charts, they tell us where we've been and they our map to where we are headed with your breeding project. Yes , all breeders cross for smell, potency and taste, but also find Specific traits that you desire other than smell, potency and taste. I like to say "with cannabis find traits you Dont want" and breed them out of the strain. If you have the parents charts (chem x ripper) then you got a jump but that doesnt happen in cannabis. Okay once you master p aharts you can see/speculate traits from parents. If you have pedigree charts then you can zero in on what you got and where t ogo but in cannabis thats a luxury
Okay we can go backwards to speculate the traits kinda, we should have 100's of seedlings but thats a luxury in canna breeding, in this case we know what parent owns those -taste, smell, and potency traits and since we know the parents - lets say the ripper is a 'thin yell leaf ' plant and seems to be on 50%- 60% of of the f1 plants we can speculate/assume/hypothesis that 'thin yell leaf ' might be DOM over Chem fatter grn leafs.
So if we know our charts and this is hard for a beginner to see but this would represent our parent cross of Chem x Ripper when have a 50% speculated DOM gene in our cross, where "B" is 'thin yell leaf ' . This is mono hybrid and where I'd reccomend t ostart out with until you have the gene pool at least punnetted but if you got pedigrees also then you can jump rite in with what you were speaking of dihybrid and complex trait crosses,
So now we can assume where we've been,
Chem mother x Ripper father
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Now if "B" is 'yell thin leaf' and b is fat grn leaf and we seem to have a Yell Thin Leaf dominating our garden of bout 50% we can assume that a cross of 'yell thin leaf' Bb xBb will produce 75% of 'yell thin leaf' ab 25% will be our Chem fat grn leafs plants.
Do not try to calculate your hermies this way until you understand Sex Linked breeding, I will be performing a dihybrid cross of (Rbr) x (Rbr) prob tommarrow on my thread if it doesnt get taken down ..., I'm suprised its still up- holyshit, no hate , anyway IDK if this will help you guys with you endeavors.
BTW ask youself , what is bb and what happens when you cross a bb x bb? and you might get what you looking for in i set of seeds homie and guess what , this can be replicated if you got the clones,,, thats how I do it...