breeding

bcguy01

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Can I breed an autoflower feminized plant with a autoflower reg male plant? I found some great fem strains and some males I want to breed together. They are all autos so i know i will get autos but just want to breed them so i can make my own seeds instead of buying them at 13$ each. Thanks all:leaf:
 
man im gona tell you something if you got the time and money to play do it the book i read seas not to but i did anyways i did get herms out of the fem seads but out of all the sead most hermied from fem seeds but i did get 3 gorgous strains i recomend you do it and hunt out hermies and get your feet wet if you gona do it, do it.. you will be happy thats the way i feel about it.. good luck..
 
man im gona tell you something if you got the time and money to play do it the book i read seas not to but i did anyways i did get herms out of the fem seads but out of all the sead most hermied from fem seeds but i did get 3 gorgous strains i recomend you do it and hunt out hermies and get your feet wet if you gona do it, do it.. you will be happy thats the way i feel about it.. good luck..

For the most part, fem seeds do not produce hermaphrodites unless you do not know how to grow properly.

If you cross am auto and a fem you will get a mixed bag of regular and auto seeds. Auto flowering is a recessive trait.
you would be better off making all fem autos, check my signature

I'm getting ready to start a regular seed crop.
 
It will be a male autoflower and a feminized autoflower. I just want the traits from the feminized strain but want to breed my own seeds so i dont have to buy them.
 
my bad

The seeds won't be fem
the plants will tend 50% a mixture
25% towards the dad
25% towards the mom

in my opinion the male is more dominant in the traits passed
 
so they wont be hermies? I just want to make sure that they will be good seeds" reg seeds". thats all i really care about
 
so they wont be hermies? I just want to make sure that they will be good seeds" reg seeds". thats all i really care about

No, damn it, no.
They will turn into "hermies" if you stress them.


The whole "fem hermie" deal is a myth, a big fucking stupid myth started by people that are not good growers and stressed their fem plants enough for them to show male flowers.
 
Can I breed an autoflower feminized plant with a autoflower reg male plant? I found some great fem strains and some males I want to breed together. They are all autos so i know i will get autos but just want to breed them so i can make my own seeds instead of buying them at 13$ each. Thanks all:leaf:

Yes, you can cross a fem'd auto with a regular male auto.

The results should be all auto ceeds in roughly 50-50 M-F gender ratio.

Assuming you don't stress the plants, hermies should NOT be a problem unless either (or both) of the parents are themselves hermie-prone.

Just note that the F1 offspring of random crosses may be good, or not so good. Sometimes you'll get something with positive traits from each parent, but sometimes instead of getting the "best" of both parents, you end up with the "worst" traits of each!

But if you cross two plants from the same line, assuming its a stable (ie inbred) line, the ceeds you get should all be similar to the parents.
 
my bad

The seeds won't be fem
the plants will tend 50% a mixture
25% towards the dad
25% towards the mom

in my opinion the male is more dominant in the traits passed

I think its a little more complicated than this.

What you might expect to see in a cross depends entirely on what the parents are, and how "purebred" (or "inbred") they are.

If, for example, both parents are from the SAME stable inbred line, then all of the F1 offspring should be similar in appearance to each other AND to the parents. (Cross two German shepherds, and you'll end up with a German shepherd).

If, for example, both parents are from DIFFERENT stable inbred lines, then all of the F1 offspring should be similar in appearance to each other, but having some traits from each parent. In some cases, hybridization of traits from two inbred parents can create traits in the offspring not seen in either parent. (Like crossing a black sheep and a white one might create all grey sheep, as a hypothetical example).

If both parents are unstable hybrids (ie "mutts"), then you can get all sorts of variation in the offspring, more than just four phenotypes.

Anyway, if you want to create ceeds from a feminized auto line that are similar to the parent, you could consider using colloidal silver or some other agent to "reverse" the female mother to create some male pollen, then self-fertilize it (or another plant of the same line) to create more feminized ceeds.

If this mother is from an inbred line, you're golden. You'll create a number of feminized ceeds this way that should all be substantially similar to the original mother.

Unfortunately, contrary to popular misconception, if the mother is NOT inbred, this type of "S1" cross may NOT throw off plants genetically similar to the mother, but instead a bunch of different phenos, at least some of which should have some or most of the traits of the mother.

Another way to try and recreate the mother into ceed form is to cross something with the mother, then do "backcrosses" to try and stabilize the genetics, but this involves actual breeding (ie real work), and is probably beyond the scope of what a home amateur grower is willing to do.
 
my bad

The seeds won't be fem
the plants will tend 50% a mixture
25% towards the dad
25% towards the mom


in my opinion the male is more dominant in the traits passed

It varies with each plant/line/cross. You might want to look at picking up Marijuana Botany by Robert C Clarke and reading it from cover to cover to get a better understanding of genetics. It's pretty old, but it's a good jumping off point IMO.
 
I was assuming stable varieties.
That has been my experience with crossing stable plants and producing fem seeds.

I'm a pollen chucker, not a breeder.
 
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