If I have one female, and I make a clone of her and CS the clone to give me pollen for seeds on the mother. Will the seeds grow as clones of the mother?
thats is called selfing, it has been known to generate herms.
if you grew 2 seeds from same strain and used CS on one(or a clone of one) to hit the other with pollen, this is called in breeding and will generate stable fem seeds.
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If I have one female, and I make a clone of her and CS the clone to give me pollen for seeds on the mother. Will the seeds grow as clones of the mother?
No it will NOT be a clone or essentially equivalent to a clone. Selfing a plant will not produce an identical plant unless it has been fully inbred to be 100% homozygous.
It will be very similar to the mother plant, which can be nice for production of seed stock, but horrific for a selfed breeding line since most of us do not want selection of hermi traits in our progeny.
Proper fem seed production wouldn't increase the chance of herm traits, short of a genetic anomoly.. or irradiating your seeds to try to force induce a new set of phenos that may not otherwise have any chance of appearing.
No it will NOT be a clone or essentially equivalent to a clone. Selfing a plant will not produce an identical plant unless it has been fully inbred to be 100% homozygous.
It will be very similar to the mother plant, which can be nice for production of seed stock, but horrific for a selfed breeding line since most of us do not want selection of hermi traits in our progeny.
Fact One:
There are genetic tendencies for different strains which under environmental stress produce more or less hermis to the same environmental stress.
Fact Two:
If you continually select strains through hermi production of seeds, you are inherently selecting for those genetics which responded to the environmental stress.
Irregardless of the environmental stress, even though you really wanted to select for other characteristics. Its part of the population and you are inadvertantly keeping them in the selected population.
This has nothing to do with fem seed production for use by production growers. The horrific was specifically referring to creating fem'd seeds and then using those seed to derive selected breeding stock. BIg Difference
I have seen reports from reputable breeders that there is variability to the response to CS. Some strains or individuals female resist producing male flowers.
Irregardless of the specific mode of action of CS, if there is consistent variability in a population its possible to be selectable.
The selfing itself is unlikely to cause hermies. However the selfing can cause a homozygous set of genes in the pairs that may influence hermies.
Basically this means if you have a strain which has hermie tendencies, then the self'd progeny may have some individuals with stronger hemie tendencies and some with less.