High-Performance Cannabis Breeding: Genetics, Crosses, and Cultivar Optimization for Potency, Terpenes, and Yield (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244691498)

High-Performance Cannabis Breeding establishes a new benchmark for the modern breeder: scientific, data-driven, sensory-aware, and performance-oriented. Written for the grower who no longer wants to merely cultivate plants but to design cultivars with intent, this guide bridges classical breeding principles with contemporary cannabis genetics to engineer strains with superior potency, terpene expression, and yield.

Inside, Saskia von Arendt demystifies the entire breeding pipeline, from genetic inheritance and trait selection to cross-design, phenotype hunting, and stabilization. Readers will learn how to isolate desirable characteristics, optimize vigor, enhance sensory complexity, and develop cultivars capable of competing with the best boutique craft strains on the market. Practical tools, performance metrics, and heuristic selection frameworks make advanced breeding accessible-even for the ambitious home breeder.

Beyond the technical foundation, the book explores the emergent terroir of cannabis: how environment, sensory profiling, and consumer demand shape the value of a cultivar. The result is not a horticulture manual, but a blueprint for crafting cannabis with purpose, strategy, and imagination.

Whether your goal is to create signature strains, refine genetic lines, improve potency thresholds, or breed for unique terpene and flavor profiles, this book delivers the knowledge, process, and discipline required to build high-performance cultivars from seed to selection.

For breeders, phenotype hunters, craft growers, and anyone who believes cannabis deserves the same breeding sophistication as wine, coffee, and perfume, this is the technical guide the industry has been missing.