Can I breed by combining a regular seed with a feminised seed?
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GrowerGoneWild
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Out of curiosity, what lucky lady is getting dusted? And whos the daddy?
Or.. P1+P2.. ?
buckets
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I'm looking at a feminized haze and some sort of a ....warp strain (male/regular seeds). I'm still doing my research. I'm trying to get a powerful haze into a plant that will finish in BC's short season of 4 months. A haze finished in 4 months outdoors from beginning to end...wouldn't that be nice!
EarthBow
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Males have XY chromosomes, females XX. When breeders force a female to go hermaphrodite, it produces pollen and pollinates itself, but still only has XX chromosomes, so all the seeds are females. The plants produced from these seeds are normal females, and can be bred to any male. The resulting seeds will be a normal mix of males and females. However...
The original mother (which is actually the mom AND the dad) will have demonstrated a willingness to herm. This trait will often skip a generation (the feminized seeds), but show up with a higher than average frequency in your crossed generation. This is nothing to be alarmed about, but keep a close eye on the plants produced from seeds from your cross.
There are few things worse than having one of your prize females go herm and pollinate your whole grow a few weeks into flowering. You not only lose the crop, but have to tear down the whole room and sanitize everything... lights, fans, walls, floors, ceilings, ducts... everything, or risk lingering pollen violating your beautiful virgins the next time around.
The original mother (which is actually the mom AND the dad) will have demonstrated a willingness to herm. This trait will often skip a generation (the feminized seeds), but show up with a higher than average frequency in your crossed generation. This is nothing to be alarmed about, but keep a close eye on the plants produced from seeds from your cross.
There are few things worse than having one of your prize females go herm and pollinate your whole grow a few weeks into flowering. You not only lose the crop, but have to tear down the whole room and sanitize everything... lights, fans, walls, floors, ceilings, ducts... everything, or risk lingering pollen violating your beautiful virgins the next time around.
hiluxphantom
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See that is what i was waiting to hear. There was just an article in skunk mag a few month back explaining this and sexual unhealthiness.
Oblazer
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Well I was gonna ask this in the chuckers paradise thread but didn't want to derail it .
So I just dug a thread up to see if its worth using a regular male to cross with a feminized .
Will I get herms down the line ? I just want to make some beans to share with friends but don't want to put gardens at risk with pollen / hermie females
So I just dug a thread up to see if its worth using a regular male to cross with a feminized .
Will I get herms down the line ? I just want to make some beans to share with friends but don't want to put gardens at risk with pollen / hermie females
Rob Roy
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Maybe.
"Hermaphroditism" can have two causes, genetic and environmental.
If your strains have a predilection to hermie anyway, and your pollen chuck offspring results in some hermies, you might falsely assume the cause was using a feminized seed as parent stock, when it was really a different reason.
I've used fems as female parent stock mated to regular males and gotten good results when using the offspring. I've also used reversed females as the "male" and bred them to regular females and gotten good results.
Consider some online research before you make your choice. Good luck.
Oblazer
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Thanks Rob , I'm going to do some homework and testing eventually
Xcoregamerskillz
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You can also stress test selfed offspring and potential parents. There are breeders that introduce certain environmental stressors "known" to induce hermaphrodite triats, and select against that when choosing which plants to self with CS (or any other compound that blocks ethelyne production).
This is just as far as I understand it from reading threads and talking to a breeder. I haven't tried it myself yet.
This is just as far as I understand it from reading threads and talking to a breeder. I haven't tried it myself yet.
Houstini
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Looks like you have memory problems, or just like to stir the pot.
Krippie94
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Right on!
Got off to a rough start on this one huh guys? I'd been wondering this same thing for a while. And now I know. We crossed Strawberry DogShit F2 male (reg) x King Louis XIII OG female (fem). I was only able to run about a dozen. Germination rate was fine. Had some herm issues on some. Some mutations and whot-not. I'll get some of those out for test. Almost 4:20 later.