can i use a hermy female to pollinate itself??

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kctats13

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Im sure this has been asked before. So please dont bash me for asking again. I did a few searches and found similar questions but most involved breeding to a regular male.
If i take a feminized plant and cause it to hermie will it pollinate itself and produce seeds?
Would the seeds be feminized?
What ratio would it most likely produce? 50/50 male female, 100% female, or 50/50 hermie/female?
I wanted to try to get some seeds from lowryder easy ryder but i noticed all seed banks sell are feminized.

Also what would i get if i bred a regular lowryder male to a feminized lowryder strain?
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kctats13

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yeah thats what i thought. Ill probobly just buy some regular auto seed, sex em, and let them do there thing.
When breeding autos can i just basically grow a male and a female together from seed and let the male pollinate her when the times right?
im always hearing about separating the male and to only put him in at certain times.
 
bluemagic83

bluemagic83

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female plant with just a few male flowers say 5 per cent produced female seeds for me off all that was polinated all seem to be female mate ,not just the herm plant seeds , all the sisters too ,i fink its a cover up from the seed companys to make you buy more seeds im no expert but from my experience i fink you can produce female seeds very easyly as long as it only has a few male flowers..
 
rzza

rzza

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i know a hermies seeds will all be hermie when he-she pollenates itself, so what if a hermie pollenates a thriving female will those be hermie?
 
cerealkilla

cerealkilla

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im pretty sure when a hermie pollenates itself the resulting seeds are all female take a cutting of a hermie the trait will be past on.
remember that the reason for both sex's is a survival instinct, stress normaly brings this on.
 
just8420

just8420

Active Member
just a thought

i think that there maybe two kinds of hermies here (genetic hermies) and (stress hermies)

from what i understand genetic hermies will produce hermies seed's while stress will produce female seed's

i really dont know so let me know if im wrong just a thought
 
rzza

rzza

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what im asking is if a genetically induced hermie ....pollenating a good non hermie plant of a different strain. will those seeds be good?
 
Greendude

Greendude

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To make fem seeds you cant use a plant that's a hermie . The pollen has to come from a true female plant , you can make a true female produce male flowers with colloidal silver in a folage spray , only treat the bud sites you want to produce male flowers . Then collect the pollen and use it on another true female to produce fem seeds . There are some good write ups on here on how to produce colloidal silver .
Changing the genetics on a bud is one thing , changing the genetics on the whole plant is another .
 
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