thanks for the info. i have zero problem with fems, or you doing your thing. I disagree however with the stability argument. My first 20 years of growing and popping 1000's of beans while doing pheno hunts and personal breeding projects, I have maybe seen a handful of nuts swinging, and they were all sterile. I was growing alot of old school amsterdam crosses that were true breeding, but still.
fast forward to the last 10 years, fems have become more accepted and so has random hermies. hermies used to be unacceptable, now they are common. even I am fine with killer pheno's that have random sacs. worth the headache!
but my question for you is why do you think there are bad batches of fems, and why all s1's of the same elite clone differ from breeder to breeder. Josey whales himself has struggled with s1's of GG4.
why are some batches all male? what is the environmentals that help gurantee good batch of fems?
For regs, I always liked the analogy of males grow taller, faster so they can rise above the canopy, and allow their pollen to land on the females. And the reason stress brings out hermaphroditism is procreation 101. stress triggers the gene that causes sense of senescence and need to procreate.
I saw Mike from exotic genetix talk about how low stress in early seedling stages improve chances of females by 50-75%. good temps, good humidity, good root zone etc. and these parameters will stress it out to the point of going male. I personally bounce back and forth between theories if a seed is preprogrmmed to be female or male.
I dont know what genetics those other breeders are using. Over half of them just seem like big ass liars and lie about the stuff that have. If I gave you my cut of cake and you reversed it the same way I did there is no reason the seeds would not be identical. I think I the issue comes from liars using bullshit clones or selling s1s as some other hermie pollen cause they couldnt reverse what they was after. You really think all breeders are ethical in being truthful about what cuts there using.
Stress has absolutely nothing to do with the predetermined sex in the seeds. Male releases both x and y pollen. Females are y. A y pollen on a female gives you a female seed. An x on a female pollen gives you a Male. Some males put alot more more x than y. Ever seen a dude with 5 girls and no boys. Yeah that's his ass putting out all that y sperm.
A female that hermied naturally is way more more likely to pass on that trait like she passes on other things like high trich ratios and structure.
Forcing a female to produce Male pollen from ethylene reduction is not going to produce a hermie plant UNLESS she was already throwing late stage balls or stress related balls. She already has the hermaphrodite gene embedded.
I have no clue what josey has done over there. I'm not even sure he discovered the glue. As I u understand mardawg found the flant from hermie seeds he got from josey.
So yes gg4 s1s could put out herm tendency plants because she was the result of a mother that naturally hermied.
The gg4 im running has not thrown any balls ever.
People buying them s1s of her will know that theres a chance of herms but probably a bigger chance of finding a bad ass keeper that's close to the original mom of gorilla glue. All it takes is 1 keeper. Those seeds are not for someone who doesnt pay attention to there garden or there looking for a big run of weed to just toss it all out after its chilled down. Someone buying them will know what they are and what they are looking for.
I have also seen plenty of glue crosses and s1s that were retarded dank and never threw any balls.
Glue is in alot of shit without any issue.
I'm not gonna get Carried away and say she will put out herm seeds because I have no reason to think she will based on me stressing her and the only thing that ever got her to throw a ball was CS.
Also there is no way in hell a batch of s1s are gonna be all male. Someone somewhere fucked that up big time.