Regular cannabis seeds
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vtguitar88
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Yes. With regular seeds you should expect about a 50/50 ratio, female-male. With good environmental conditions and good luck, you could end up 70/30, or really anywhere. As far as pollination, breeders do this selectively, and there is a whole method for choosing strong male phenotypes, collectinng pollen, and dusting specific female flower sites to produce a desired quatitiy of seeds. However, if you are looking to produce sellable or reasonably smokeable buds, a singe male plant left unattended in a garden will dash these hopes completely. One male alone produces enough pollen to fill an entire garden of females completely with seeds, so that no sinsemilla, smokeable herb remains. So be very careful when dealing with male plants in flowering. If you have no experience with breeding, it's better to cull the males as soon as they show themselves and use them for butter or something. Good luck!
WusSupHoez420
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do you want to breed or do you want to have good smokable buds?
So a pollinated female will basically have pretty shitty bud. How about if I do pollinate all my females and they produce a lot of seeds. Then will those seeds be about a 50/50 ratio?
What if the plant is an auto flowering strain? Will it matter if the plant is male or female?
Because here is what they say on attitude seed bank.
"Having no vegetative stage, Lowryder cant be cloned or regenerated, for all intents and purposes. Replanting cannabis seeds is a must. But then, this plants unique advantages do away with any reason for cloning in the first place. It is an ideal parent strain, producing some offspring with its unique autoflowering traits."
Because here is what they say on attitude seed bank.
"Having no vegetative stage, Lowryder cant be cloned or regenerated, for all intents and purposes. Replanting cannabis seeds is a must. But then, this plants unique advantages do away with any reason for cloning in the first place. It is an ideal parent strain, producing some offspring with its unique autoflowering traits."
vtguitar88
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Yes. But there is no way would want to pollenate all of your females. If you were completely to pollenate one branch of one female, you would find yourselves swimming in seeds already. If you completely pollenated say five females, you would likely end up with thousands upon thousands of seeds. It's nice to make a small seed stock by crossing your best pheno's, but in most situations you're better off using clones. Seems complicated at first but it works out to be easier than dealing with the stress of selective pollenatiion. Check out this thread though:
https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/20319-seed-production-tutorial.html
That should give you some good info on these subjects. Finally, I didn't mean to suggest earlier that you should shy away from attempting to breed you best plants. I just think that if you're new to growing, you'll likely have enough stress and problems (most will be more minor than they seem, in my experience) without worrying about accidentally letting your whole crop go to seed. Do a few grows where you try to get the best sinsemilla bud you can with a small number of plants, then worry about making seeds. I'd even suggest shelling out the money for feminized seeds and practicing cloning before getting into breeding. It's hard to fully realize how much easier fem seeds make everything until you go with reg seeds when you want all females. You end up wasting so much time and money on soil, pots, space, light, etc. for male plants that the extra money spent on feminized seeds quickly becomes worth it. But it's up to you.
P.S. don't buy fem seeds every time you want to grow though, unless you love giving money to seed banks. just buy one fem. pack for each strain you want to try out, and make clones of your best plants.
https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/20319-seed-production-tutorial.html
That should give you some good info on these subjects. Finally, I didn't mean to suggest earlier that you should shy away from attempting to breed you best plants. I just think that if you're new to growing, you'll likely have enough stress and problems (most will be more minor than they seem, in my experience) without worrying about accidentally letting your whole crop go to seed. Do a few grows where you try to get the best sinsemilla bud you can with a small number of plants, then worry about making seeds. I'd even suggest shelling out the money for feminized seeds and practicing cloning before getting into breeding. It's hard to fully realize how much easier fem seeds make everything until you go with reg seeds when you want all females. You end up wasting so much time and money on soil, pots, space, light, etc. for male plants that the extra money spent on feminized seeds quickly becomes worth it. But it's up to you.
P.S. don't buy fem seeds every time you want to grow though, unless you love giving money to seed banks. just buy one fem. pack for each strain you want to try out, and make clones of your best plants.
Thank you so much. You were a big help.
In my opinion, regular cannabis seeds are just good for breeding. If it's not the intention, burn them and jump over the fire naked all night long.