donthatetaylor
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yea i just would really love to learn how to mate my plants and get all feminized seed. if thats even possible. if anyone knows the secrets please share.
any one know the secret of feminizing seeds?
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Grizzdude
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Well you take a strong female and you can spray it with this certain chemical to make it produce male pollen sacs (turn hermie). Then you take that pollen and pollinate a different strong female plant, then those seeds will be feminized.
donthatetaylor
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thanks guys, i've been wanting to try doing this for a while.
what stage of the plants life would i do this at?
what stage of the plants life would i do this at?
destros beard
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Just remember that once you make fem seeds your chances of hermies goes up.
donthatetaylor
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yea, thats no good. thanks for the knowledge man.
I believe that the best method is to "make" a selfing plant (hermie) and then to pollinate her with her own pollen. I had some White widow do that and all the seeds myself and others have germed from that grow have all popped Female - without exception. But, the odd male flower seems to appear too regularly.
destros beard
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Hermed plants = hermie seeds. end of story.
Hermaphrodites breed hermaphrodites. SFV plants can be pretty stable, but only to a certain extent. Under minimal stress you will start to see bananas (male-preflowers). When you "self" a plant you are encoding the hermie blue print into the plants DNA/RNA. Therefore it is the plants "evolutionary" duty to produce more hermaphrodites, because it has already been introduced into the genotype.
I wouldn't recommend selfing plants unless they are clone-only and the pheno will be lost forever if you don't. I'd say a better way is to just outcross the clone into another killer male to get a "more" stable (to some extent) offspring.
Feminized seeds encourage hermaphrodism in a gene-pool which in turn, ultimately, destroys that gene-pool. I do use fem seeds, but just realize where they come from and what they do. But I'm also looking at this through a breeder POV.
donthatetaylor
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so even if i bought feminized seeds online they would still have the hermie gene in them and could possibly have male flowers as well
Green Cross
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Yeah feminized give you females mixed with hermaphrodites, but practically zero chance of males
It's a good trade off. A few Hermie flowers aren't going to pollinate your entire grow, but one Male can...
donthatetaylor
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alright i guess i'll go ahead and give it a try then.
destros beard
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True. Fem seeds have a higher chance of herms than regular seeds all across the board, whether you buy online or make yourself. Don't get me wrong, you can grow them out and they may not herm on you, but environment stress is a huge factor in whether they herm or not. Just a little bit of stress could herm a fem seed fast. Regular seeds *should* be stable, so they can handle more stress.
donthatetaylor
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i'll keep that in mind when i attempt this.
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