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    Let's pretend the unthinkable has happened and my Top 44 female plant is producing seed.

    Will the seed produced breed true i.e. produce more Top 44 plants or is there some kind of trick to a hybrid plant that would not allow this to happen.

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    If I understand the question correctly, yes you would have a plant of the same genetic (produced breed true). But you can end up with hermaphrodites like the picture below.



    hermaphrodite
    Very unusual but happens sometimes.
    This is a plant that has both sexes.
    Article taken from: Difference between male and female marijuana and cannabis plants and Hermaphrodite Marijuana Plants

    What is a Hermaphrodite plant?

    An hermaphrodite, or hermie, is a Marijuana plant of one sex that develops the sexual organs of the other sex. Most commonly, a flowering female Marijuana plant will develop staminate flowers, though the reverse is also true. Primarily male hermaphrodites are not as well recognized only because few growers let their males reach a point of flowering where the pistillate would be expressed.
    Hermaphrodites are generally viewed with disfavor. First, they will release pollen and ruin a sinsemelia crop, pollinating themselves and all of the other females in the room. Second, the resulting seeds are worthless, because hermaphrodite parents tend to pass on the tendency to their offspring.


    Please note that occassionally specious staminate flowers will appear in the last days of flowering of a female Marijuana plant. These do not drop pollen and their appearance is not considered evidence of deleterious hermaphroditism.

    Here's an image of a hermaphrodite, specifically a female Marijuana plant with staminate flowers.
    For more pictures of Hermaphrodite marijuana plants visit our Marijuana Picture Gallery

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    very nice.. kak and poon... very nice
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    This is what i found:

    Hybrid seeds are the first generation offsprings of two distant and distinct parental lines of the same species. seeds taken from a hybrid may either be sterile or more commonly fail to breed true, not incorporating and expressing the desired traits of the parent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garden Knowm View Post
    Mr. Legal..

    is that your picture?

    very nice.. kak and poon... very nice
    Nope not my pic! Borrowed! Is a nice pic of a hermie.

    I have yet to get one of these in my crops.Thank God!

    Although when I crossbreed my one and only "Columbian Red Block" If female I will land up with many of these because I will be crossbreeding it with it's self. This will always produce hermies, which is ok for seed. But before I crossbreed it with it's self I will be taking clones, some for pure strain grow, and rest to cross with Haze! Let's hope that my one and only "Columbian Red Block" turns out to be female! Otherwise i'll pollenate with Haze!
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    It all depends on what and how the cross was done. It also depends what pollinated it and what generation the pollinated are, you could be breeding an f2 generation, a f3 generation....etc.

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    You need to back cross the stain several times, select the progeny and keep backcrossing, and then you will have some pretty well tru breeding seeds.

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    I'm sorry I misread the priginal question, sounds like you are saying you have no males and the fem. produced seeds. She selfed herself meaning all seeds will be fem or hermie. True breeding is not the same really. I personally would never use selfed seeds, too many herms.

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    I use selfed seeds frequently, they work well for me, just make sure they're not from a hermie, and that the flowers are on a tru female and due to stress (such as heat stress, too long a light cycle stress) Hermie seeds generally are crap, throw them out.

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