Seeds and genetics question !

Jimmy Sparkle

Jimmy Sparkle

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Here's the scenario... I had a recent grow with 4 high plains drifter and 4 Jack the ripper. There were no Hermies no males no possibility of stray pollen ect. At the end of the grow as I was trimming/cleaning a jack the ripper bud I noticed a couple of seed and then a couple on 1 of the High Plains Drifter buds. 8 plants and 5 total seeds wich all sprouted and grew absolutly beautifully and produced just a ton of bud. They were all female and the smoke was fuckin great. so my question is, what does that make the new plants that sprouted from the seeds ? Are they a carbon copy of mom or do they cycle back genetically and you end up with a new strain so to speak? I did notice that the smell and taste of the new plants bud was quite different from their moms. Thanks for the help...
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Jimmy Sparkle said:
Here's the scenario... I had a recent grow with 4 high plains drifter and 4 Jack the ripper. There were no Hermies no males no possibility of stray pollen ect. At the end of the grow as I was trimming/cleaning a jack the ripper bud I noticed a couple of seed and then a couple on 1 of the High Plains Drifter buds. 8 plants and 5 total seeds wich all sprouted and grew absolutly beautifully and produced just a ton of bud. They were all female and the smoke was fuckin great. so my question is, what does that make the new plants that sprouted from the seeds ? Are they a carbon copy of mom or do they cycle back genetically and you end up with a new strain so to speak? I did notice that the smell and taste of the new plants bud was quite different from their moms. Thanks for the help...
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Were these plants inside? If no hermies then the father was a traveling salesman. Pollen blown in from a sloppy neighbors grow?
 
thehole

thehole

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It's called
[h=1]Parthenogenesis.[/h]
It happens. The plants parents probably had a predispositon to produce hermies.

Or you just missed a few pollen sacs and what really happened was a small partial pollination.
 
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OldGrowAddict

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It's incredibly easy to miss a pollensack, which you proably did. Even after you know what you're looking for they are a pain to search for.

Seeds don't appear unnless cannabis-pollen is present, and jugding by the low number of seeds it's no mystery you missed it (very few bananas to find).

Edit: what... I can't write the word seed without getting a link? Seeed. Seed. seed. Weird, why didn't these get blue?
 
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OldGrowAddict

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thehole said:
It's called
Parthenogenesis.


It happens. The plants parents probably had a predispositon to produce hermies.

Or you just missed a few pollen sacs and what really happened was a small partial pollination.
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I was told Parthenogenesis occurs only in a few plants naturally, and that cannabis is not one of them. If I'm wrong then I've learned something, not bad for an old man.
Do you have a link to more info about this? Thanks.
 
ru4r34l

ru4r34l

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OldGrowAddict said:
It's incredibly easy to miss a pollensack, which you proably did. Even after you know what you're looking for they are a pain to search for.

Seeds don't appear unnless cannabis-pollen is present, and jugding by the low number of seeds it's no mystery you missed it (very few bananas to find).

Edit: what... I can't write the word seed without getting a link? Seeed. Seed. seed. Weird, why didn't these get blue?
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the word is seeds :-o

regards,
 
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SSHZ

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Yes, they will be females. The same thing happens to my OG Kush #18. I often find 2-3 seeds in an occasional plant. Every seed I've ever plant was just like the mother (quality and feminized).....
 
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