I have 20-30 some from a buddys' plant harvest back July of '10. I'm still sitting on them cuz idk lolSo you think they would just produce more seeds .should I toss them
If the breeder at CH9 is to be believed then one can easily come to the conclusion that an easier to grow strain will give you less seeds and lower stress levels...They will be female seeds if they were self pollinated. Stress was likely the cause especially if you got that many.
The seeds are fine. The hermie trait thing is a myth. Grow without the stress that caused it and you have 80 free seeds.
Assuming the genetics were good you started with.
This info came from the breeder at CH9 seeds. And I use the few I find in my garden to grow great plants often.
I dont know, its all quite speculative, years and years later seeds still hermie. Would have thought if anyone had any answers it would long since been outbred of all strains...Is it not a trait that good breeders breed out? Is there not plants that can not be stressed to produce seeds and must be done chemically? I was always under the impression that if seeds are common in a plant that they would not use that particular plant as a breeder and chuck it, going with the plants of that run that had no seed or hermi trait.
Yes yes yes! I have been saying often as I read help threads. Why is this beginner growing strains like that?If the breeder at CH9 is to be believed then one can easily come to the conclusion that an easier to grow strain will give you less seeds and lower stress levels...
Of course the breeders breed out the bad traits. And hopefully breed in the good ones.Is it not a trait that good breeders breed out? Is there not plants that can not be stressed to produce seeds and must be done chemically? I was always under the impression that if seeds are common in a plant that they would not use that particular plant as a breeder and chuck it, going with the plants of that run that had no seed or hermi trait.
Well aren't you kind of contradicting yourself with your first post that the hermie trait is a myth if in fact it can be bred out (to a point). If you elaborate on "the hermie myth" that may clarify what you mean. It could be that I'm just highly confused lol. I can honestly say that I have never had a herm in hydro although my last run, third clone from clone run, that went outdoors did throw a few seeds from a few plants, yup I stressed the shit out of them lol.Of course the breeders breed out the bad traits. And hopefully breed in the good ones.
Then they use chemicals to alter the plants that are the best females hormones to produce male flowers.
And the pollen or the flowers are still not always enough or even viable.
The myth is that if your plant shows stamen (nanners) then any seeds found will likely also have them.Well aren't you kind of contradicting yourself with your first post that the hermie trait is a myth if in fact it can be bred out (to a point). If you elaborate on "the hermie myth" that may clarify what you mean. It could be that I'm just highly confused lol. I can honestly say that I have never had a herm in hydro although my last run, third clone from clone run, that went outdoors did throw a few seeds from a few plants, yup I stressed the shit out of them lol.
That was my original answer to the op above. Grow without stress next time and you got yourself good free seeds.Hmmmm, Interesting views.....
I gotta throw in here..
Sense your plant threw "naners"....The seeds have no more then the same amount of ability to herm as the mother plant!
The "myth" of herming plants making seeds that herm is true! BUT, this was true for how they created the first FEM seeds.
Dutch Passion would take a female plant that tended to herm under stress. They would stress the plant, and as it grew the male parts needed for pollination. They would put another female in with it to be pollinated and harvest the seeds from that plant. This method had problems with unstable results and strains that were used that had the herming trait. Passed along that trait to the new seeds, only stronger.
You stressed your plant so it thew Banana's. The offspring have no more ability to "herm" then the plant they came from.
So then, "Don't stress the new seeds and you won't get herming"...
I just had to add the real herming seed story......I saw someone say that it's a "myth".....My CDO made me give the real herming story!That was my original answer to the op above. Grow without stress next time and you got yourself good free seeds.
Yes but my hermie seeds have grown into a plant you see and I dried and smoked those pinapple looking things on it and then posted my response.I just had to add the real herming seed story......I saw someone say that it's a "myth".....My CDO made me give the real herming story!
??Um, don't you mean that, if he grows the seeds he has out. Stress free, they won't herm next time????