Does gender matter by strain?

I was wondering if I'm planning to combine 2 separate strains does it matter which strain is the male and which is the female. I know obviously that each time you breed two plants your going to get somthing a little different, but do the females take more after the mother plant and males more after the father. Can I expect completely different results by swapping which strain is the male and which is female? Does one gender always pass on more traits?
 

Phytoplankton

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I was wondering if I'm planning to combine 2 separate strains does it matter which strain is the male and which is the female. I know obviously that each time you breed two plants your going to get somthing a little different, but do the females take more after the mother plant and males more after the father. Can I expect completely different results by swapping which strain is the male and which is female? Does one gender always pass on more traits?
It makes no difference, each parent contibutes 50%.
 

Farmer's Hat

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Do you have any experience combining two females by reversing the gender of one? Do you recommend against it
Many growers have done this. Its still a form of crossbreeding, however you will end up with feminized seeds. How stable the cross turns out depends largely on the genetics of the two individual strains that were crossed.
 

Farmer's Hat

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I would not be going to self but from two females from differnt strains and continuing to do that with their children until I got somthing stable
Your odds for creating a stable strain increases if you use male and female plants. It is my understanding that breeding with only females increases the odds of a strain having an unstable hermaphrodite trait in the gene pool.
 
Your odds for creating a stable strain increases if you use male and female plants. It is my understanding that breeding with only females increases the odds of a strain having an unstable hermaphrodite trait in the gene pool.
I was aware of this however I have a female plant of a genetic I'm not supposed to have and what I'm looking to cross it with only comes female
 

conor c

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I was wondering if I'm planning to combine 2 separate strains does it matter which strain is the male and which is the female. I know obviously that each time you breed two plants your going to get somthing a little different, but do the females take more after the mother plant and males more after the father. Can I expect completely different results by swapping which strain is the male and which is female? Does one gender always pass on more traits?
That's a debate right there some breeders say makes no difference others say doing it a set way makes a difference imo as far as cannabis is concerned males matters they contribute slightly more on a genetic level than females so there very important might even be more so than the females tbh
 

conor c

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Your odds for creating a stable strain increases if you use male and female plants. It is my understanding that breeding with only females increases the odds of a strain having an unstable hermaphrodite trait in the gene pool.
It will if she ain't stable and firm not so if the parents are solid and firm sex wise however it can increase the amount of females to males ratio wise in a line actually s1s can be used as a shortcut to fix intersex in a line especially if you have limited numbers and don't wanna outcross you can make s1s stress test em kill what don't make the grade and use the ones that are solid sex wise to help improve your chances CSI or one of the guys who do this alot could explain it better than me but that's the jist of it
 
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