The bench
Scouse Genetics is a small Liverpool house. We do not rush an F1 because the pedigree looks expensive. We pop large numbers, throw most of them away, and only pack a line when it has done the same thing twice.
Hunt to pack
01
The right mother, the right father. Cuts we have actually run — not a forum name. If we do not know a parent, we do not make the cross.
02
Pollen goes on a plant we trust. The first generation is a hypothesis, not a product. We do not pack F1s because the pedigree looks expensive.
03
A keeper is a numbers game with a notebook. We pop far more than we will ever sell from. Most of the room gets composted.
04
Vigour, internodal spacing, stem-rub, structure, aroma, effect, bag appeal. A pretty flower that herms under a heat spike is not a mother.
05
Soil and coco. Indoors and under poly. At least two UK seasons before anything is called an outdoor. If it only works in a Dutch room, we say so.
06
Backcross or line-breed until the pack does the same thing twice. Bx1 pulls a parent forward. Bx2 tightens it. Scatter is not a feature.
07
Every run is tested before it leaves Liverpool. Fresh seed germinates. Warehouse leftovers from Spain are why people think banks are a lottery.
08
Limited runs on purpose. If a strain is not ready, it does not ship. That includes the Jamaica collab.
Backcrossing
A backcross is a return trip: take the keeper from a cross, and breed it back to one parent. Each trip reduces scatter and stacks the trait we cared about. It is slower than printing a new name. That is the point.
Example · Bx2
Two returns to our Durban cut. Anise locked, stretch honest, sativa spark still in the plant.
Durban Poison
seed parent
Scouse Durban cut
keeper mum
F1
first cross — still a hypothesis
Bx1
keeper × Durban cut
Bx2
second return · what we pack
Example · Bx1
Di Frutti × Di Frutti, then one return to the keeper. Fruit on top, truffle in the finish. Earlier than a Bx2 — some spread, on purpose.
Di Frutti
fruit parent
Di Frutti
same cut, returned
F1
Di Frutti × Di Frutti
Bx1
keeper × Di Frutti · what we pack
Stopped at Bx1 so the fruit stays loud without flattening the line.
In this catalogue
Longer notes on the bench: regular seed, Bx1 / Bx2, F1, inbreeding, polygenic traits. Ruff Genetics’ island lines — Lambs Bread, Jah Orange Tree, Strawberry Mousse — and the Scouse × Ruff crosses Island Punch and Gas Tree are still in test. Packing when germ and expression are honest, not when a campaign calendar says so.
Selection pressure
Dutch and Spanish catalogues select for rooms and long Octobers. We select against a Merseyside autumn: salt air, wet September, short light. Outdoor “excellent” means it finished in a bad year. Greenhouse is a different badge. Indoor-only means we have watched it rot and we will not pretend otherwise.
Horticultural notes on this site are for collectors and licensed growers. Seeds are sold as souvenirs. Germinating cannabis is illegal in the UK without a Home Office licence.
Parents
Verified cuts we have run. No mystery purple. No forum folklore.
Proof
Two media, two environments, two seasons before an outdoor badge.
Lock
Bx or line-breed until sisters look like sisters.
Pack
Germ-tested, small-batch, climate-stored in Liverpool.
