Feminized seeds... And Hermies.

• If you find a dioecious herb strain that has the hermaphrodite condition you can separate this plant from the rest and allow selfing to occur. If the male pollen is viable on this plant then the hermaphrodite will produce seeds. Selfed plants that produce seeds will eventually generate offspring that:
  1. Are all female
  2. Are all hermaphrodite
  3. Produce male, female and hermaphrodite plants because the environment also influences the final sexual expression of the selfed plant
  4. Express limited variation from the original selfed plant
  Breeders should note that it is nearly impossible for a hermaphrodite to create male plants although the environment can influence males to appear. Hermaphrodites usually create female-only and hermaphrodite seeds. The female-only seeds often carry the hermaphrodite trait. Selfing has become popular among those who wish to breed all-female or feminized seeds. Unfortunately feminized seeds do very little for the herb gene pool as the hermaphrodite condition prevents growers from generating a sinsemilla crop.​

  
  
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alphawolf.hack said:

thats where breeding hermie pollen with seed sister plants of the same or different strain to produce offspring that is less likely to hermie. or a straincan breed pure by the process of cubing then the final pure results can be selfed with a lower chance of hermie condition. there are many styles of breeding to lowering the chances of having a hermie. seed banks have suposedly perfected this but often with the large demand they will self as many clones as they can often leading to unpredictable results. they work on a larger scale so breeding can be complicated by the fact they need alot of seeds versus the fact that exact breeding process's take time and space.(ie collecting enough pollen to pollinate a 100 plants without using the selfed seeds that where created in the process? i think not mix em and send em out is what they say im sure

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alphawolf.hack said:

thats where breeding hermie pollen with seed sister plants of the same or different strain to produce offspring that is less likely to hermie. or a straincan breed pure by the process of cubing then the final pure results can be selfed with a lower chance of hermie condition. there are many styles of breeding to lowering the chances of having a hermie. seed banks have suposedly perfected this but often with the large demand they will self as many clones as they can often leading to unpredictable results. they work on a larger scale so breeding can be complicated by the fact they need alot of seeds versus the fact that exact breeding process's take time and space.(ie collecting enough pollen to pollinate a 100 plants without using the selfed seeds that where created in the process? i think not mix em and send em out is what they say im sure

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Bleezyboy1990 said:

So your saying if you hermie a plant of say GDP and only collect the pollen, then use that to pollenate another female(could this even be a clone taken from the same plant earlier in the cycle?) Perferably from the same strain, and you'll get femed seeds less likely to hermie?

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