feminized seeds?

blaazeup

blaazeup

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this might be a dumb question, but i've heard of feminized seeds,

and i was just wondering how people know they are female before even germinating?

How int he world does this happen?
 
Both naturally, and by stressing the plant by messing with light, applying acid, etc. During the course of a Female's lifespan it can grow Male pollen sacks and become a Hermaphrodite (hermie) These pollen sacks are slightly different from Male pollen sacks in that (just refer to some of the common genetics you learned back in Highschool biology) instead of producing pollen with both X and Y chromosomes like a normal Male pollen sack which would produce either Male or Female genetics into the seeds it produces, the Female sacks contain only the X chromosomes producing only female seeds (feminized).

Now from my understanding for breeding it is best to use a forced Hermie rather then a natural Hermie to get seeds, because a natural hermie genetically will pass that trait on and you want to produce fem seeds not hermie seeds. I'm not positive on this one either but I believe rather then letting the forced hermie plant pollenate itself, to maintain stability they collect that pollen and apply it to a healthy female.
 
hazetastic808 said:
Both naturally, and by stressing the plant by messing with light, applying acid, etc. During the course of a Female's lifespan it can grow Male pollen sacks and become a Hermaphrodite (hermie) These pollen sacks are slightly different from Male pollen sacks in that (just refer to some of the common genetics you learned back in Highschool biology) instead of producing pollen with both X and Y chromosomes like a normal Male pollen sack which would produce either Male or Female genetics into the seeds it produces, the Female sacks contain only the X chromosomes producing only female seeds (feminized).

Now from my understanding for breeding it is best to use a forced Hermie rather then a natural Hermie to get seeds, because a natural hermie genetically will pass that trait on and you want to produce fem seeds not hermie seeds. I'm not positive on this one either but I believe rather then letting the forced hermie plant pollenate itself, to maintain stability they collect that pollen and apply it to a healthy female.
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step by step on how to force a female to hermi? i wanna try.
 
thanks! that was very helpful.

i had an accidently pollinated female last yaer, and i am growing from those seeds,
so are they going to be a hermie for sure? or possibly female?

also, can a hermie pollinate a female & turn that one hermie like a male pollinates a female?
 
blaazeup said:
thanks! that was very helpful.

i had an accidently pollinated female last yaer, and i am growing from those seeds,
so are they going to be a hermie for sure? or possibly female?

also, can a hermie pollinate a female & turn that one hermie like a male pollinates a female?
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When you say accidentally pollenated female do you mean it hermied and pollenated itself? Or you let a male go to long and it was able to pollenate it? If its the 1st and it happened naturally it would produce some female but more hermie seeds.

As for forcing a plant hermie I have never personally done it, read a couple things like placing a cup over a budsite to keep it from getting light for a couple days, using some types of acid to stress it, if anyone has actually done it I'd love some more details as well.
 
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