I have been doing a lot of reading on breeding as i may want to get into this some day as a side hobby. Everything that I've found on using and selecting males has not been very helpful. Some sites say to use the most vigorous one, and others say to use the least vigorous one, and others still say to use the one that has the most odor. Well, since no one can agree on this, I was thinking about using females for breeding. Let's say you had two really nice female plants and you wanted to breed them. One way would obviously be get a male and pollinate it. I'm thinking the other way would be cause one of the plants to go hermie, then breed it to the other one. That way you know exactly what each has in terms of producing buds. They'll share their genetic information and best of all, you'll have all female seeds. Does anyone see why this wouldn't work?

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Choice of males would depend on what traits are important to you.. There is no defacto correct choice..
I personally believe female pollen is more likely to create developmentally challenged offspring even if female1 & female2 are involved.. You're forcing a female to grow stuff it never really intended to grow.. It makes sense to me that problems/compromises would occur more frequently, and whether I'm right about the reason or not, its pretty common knowledge that feminized seeds are more likely to mutate/herm..

PLEASE TELL ME ALL THAT YOU KNOW About this subject born2killspam and racer 3456. I have a Pot of Gold mother clone and a Grape ape CLone and i was thinking about turning the grape ape hermie and pollinating the Pot of Gold. This will work right. What would the out come be would i have crappy hermie seeds or feminized or would it be mixed male female and hermies . please explain someone .thanks

And by the way im not really interested in taking the time to make a new Strain or anything i just need good seeds because i mostly get sensimellia bud with few to no seeds in it and it is a pain to travel travel to get a clone from a medical dispensary and then only come out with a small crop.

You can do it no matter what.. If you want to get an idea of how suitable these are as feminizing candidates, then you need to take some backup clones, and see how resilient they are to stress.. If they herm easy, then they aren't the best choice for polinating at all..

I think it would work for the first few generations, but if you keep doing it, then the strain will become sensitive to becoming hermie.

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No, by making the female a hermie, it will likely give the hermie trait to the seeds it makes, and increase the number of hermies you will grow. Best way to breed with 2 females and get gerbrlic (i dont know the exact name/spelling) Acid which will make males flowers on a female plant, but not be hermie. Breeding is hard tho, and take time and multiple steps to get a good outcome.

That's not how genetics works. What you are saying is that the plant will evolve in one generation and automatically make its offspring hermaphrodites from then on out. Evolution takes several generations because DNA cannot change that fast. Hermaphroditism is not an all or nothing phenomenon. In other words, think of it as a sliding scale. At one end you have something with no trait (genes) for hermaphroditis, and at the other end you have a plant that does it every time. Some plants you can abuse and abuse and they will never turn hermie. Other ones you screw up a little bit with and it will turn hermie on you, and still others will do it no matter how perfect it is grown. It takes many generations for a plant to go from one extreme to the other.

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August 7, 1765: "--began to seperate (sic) the Male from the Female Hemp at Do--rather too late."
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