what female morph would you buy if you wanted to start breeding Ball Pythons

I like the black pastel,pied,cinnamon with the nanners. also i saw a bannana ktulu,thing looked insane.

I feel like these questions are always so hard to answer because budget and long term goals are big things to think about when talking about breeding projects.

What is this five year plan roughly? Do you mean you want to have 10-20 ball pythons breeding size by that time or you want to have a small group of snakes you breed? And what kind of budget are you looking at? That's a huge difference between suggesting pinstripes and clowns.

Personally I'd stick with 3-4 genes max in any given snake. I've seen people wind up with 5-6 genes in a snake and I always think they end up guessing at half of those genes just to bump up the price, and I don't trust the genetics of 5+ gene snakes unless it's really obvious.

One strategy that I've used is to buy a possible four banger gene, such as my pastel pinstripe possible yellow belly possible pied. I got her for less than $200. Now I can breed her to a pied male and see if she proves out. If she is really het pied and yellowbelly she will be worth a lot more. You'll spend less if you take a chance on the possible not proven genes and breed them to prove them out. Even if she doesn't prove out I still just love the pastel and spider genes and will get all het pieds, so she will end up adding some cool genes to my program anyway.