I would like to make an attempt at creating my own crosses, I haven't found it yet which is why I want it. " Purple Cheese" lavender x cheese or a "purple blue cheese" grandaddy purple x Buddhas cheese or a blue cheese, Thoughts?
Sounds good :) And sounds doable.
When you cross lavender x cheese there are several likely outcomes:
- They will taste like lavender (if it's "complete dominant" over cheese), or
- They will taste like cheese (if cheese gene/allele is complete dominant over lavender), or
- They will taste like a combination (because they are co or incomplete dominant and or multiple separate sets of genes play a role)
That last one may for example result in 90% lavender and just a hint of the cheese, or the other way around.
Less likely, especially in the first generation, but possible is that you get something new.
What you basically want to know is how the taste traits inherit. They could be sort of 50-50 co dominant and create a desired mix of lavender and cheese. They only way to find that out is to do a test cross. If that happens to be the case, my suggestion would be to stabilize the lavender strain if and as needed, and the cheese strain too, and then cross them into an real F1 hybrid.
For example, pick the most lavender and most cheesy and backcross each of those lines for 4 gens or so and then cross them together.
If you cross them without stabilizing them first and want to take that F1 to F2 and further, you may have a harder time finding the right plants. In F2 you will have the same likely outcomes as above, but all 3 and not just 1.
Point is, to be able to recreate that lavender+cheese strain consistently you may have to go for keeping a lavender parent and a cheese parent instead of two lavender+cheese parents.
