kirby
Well-Known Member
This works (bio)logically in my head but maybe not genetically... read on my fellow pot enthusiasts.
Now, the concept of making feminized seeds is fairly simple(however getting 90% female seed percentages is a totally different story).
For those who don't know how it's done, I can give a brief explanation:
Feminized seeds come from hermaphrodite plants, or the pollen from them. To get pollen from the hermaphrodite plants, you must first make male flowers appear on a female plant.. often called banana's or nanners. This is caused by stress, or by a period of time. There's multiple ways to artificially stress the plant to create these nanners, but two notable ones being colloidal silver and gibberellic acid. Colloidal silver can be made from a simple electrolysis process using water, batteries(a current) and .999 pure silver coins. You then take the dissolved silver, and mix it into a quart water and then foliar feed onto the plants at a specific time, which create male flowers early on in the flowering stage. Another artifical method to create these flowers is by using Gibberellic acid. It's a hormone produced by the plant, which regulates the plants grown. It promotes the elongation of cells, and can often be fed to the plant to increase growth. However, it can also be given to the plant in such a manner where it also inducdes male flowers, also resulting in a high % of female seeds. This method has been a close gaurded secret to the seed company's.
However, some people (including soma) use a different method which takes more time, but is organic. For example, you grow a female plant until it ages, usually 10-30 days past it's recommended harvest dates. It takes a specific light patten ( eg getting very very late in season, or stress ), to trigger the plant to naturally produce these male flowers( with pollen! ) at the very end of its life. It does this in hope to pollinate itself, produce seeds, and then continue it's genetics. The pollen, has the same genes from the plant it's from, having only XX chromosones which will result in only female seeds( in theory, but not true ). Amazing how the circle of life works... So what people do, is they grow out a plant and then collect the male flowers off it, store them in bags and then in the freezer. If they have any females currently growing, they can pollinate their females with this pollen, to produce feminized seeds. The seeds that are produced are often hermie... they will turn hermie any time in the flowering stage, early, or late. However, they have a potential to be female as well, and the occccccasionall males. There's methods to maximize the percentage of females though, which depend on the enviroment, growing conditions, and the way you induced male flowers.
With all this said, I get down to the point of this topic. Since the seeds have the same genetics of the mother plant, isn't it possible to produce seeds for clone only strains... like G13, or OGKush. The genetics might be fucked up... but maybe with some stabilizing and IBL with itself you can remove hermie traits and have a geneticlly perfect mother from seed... however there might be some other factor involved which im not aware of yet.. which is why I posted this!
GENETICALLY POSSIBLE?
Now, the concept of making feminized seeds is fairly simple(however getting 90% female seed percentages is a totally different story).
For those who don't know how it's done, I can give a brief explanation:
Feminized seeds come from hermaphrodite plants, or the pollen from them. To get pollen from the hermaphrodite plants, you must first make male flowers appear on a female plant.. often called banana's or nanners. This is caused by stress, or by a period of time. There's multiple ways to artificially stress the plant to create these nanners, but two notable ones being colloidal silver and gibberellic acid. Colloidal silver can be made from a simple electrolysis process using water, batteries(a current) and .999 pure silver coins. You then take the dissolved silver, and mix it into a quart water and then foliar feed onto the plants at a specific time, which create male flowers early on in the flowering stage. Another artifical method to create these flowers is by using Gibberellic acid. It's a hormone produced by the plant, which regulates the plants grown. It promotes the elongation of cells, and can often be fed to the plant to increase growth. However, it can also be given to the plant in such a manner where it also inducdes male flowers, also resulting in a high % of female seeds. This method has been a close gaurded secret to the seed company's.
However, some people (including soma) use a different method which takes more time, but is organic. For example, you grow a female plant until it ages, usually 10-30 days past it's recommended harvest dates. It takes a specific light patten ( eg getting very very late in season, or stress ), to trigger the plant to naturally produce these male flowers( with pollen! ) at the very end of its life. It does this in hope to pollinate itself, produce seeds, and then continue it's genetics. The pollen, has the same genes from the plant it's from, having only XX chromosones which will result in only female seeds( in theory, but not true ). Amazing how the circle of life works... So what people do, is they grow out a plant and then collect the male flowers off it, store them in bags and then in the freezer. If they have any females currently growing, they can pollinate their females with this pollen, to produce feminized seeds. The seeds that are produced are often hermie... they will turn hermie any time in the flowering stage, early, or late. However, they have a potential to be female as well, and the occccccasionall males. There's methods to maximize the percentage of females though, which depend on the enviroment, growing conditions, and the way you induced male flowers.
With all this said, I get down to the point of this topic. Since the seeds have the same genetics of the mother plant, isn't it possible to produce seeds for clone only strains... like G13, or OGKush. The genetics might be fucked up... but maybe with some stabilizing and IBL with itself you can remove hermie traits and have a geneticlly perfect mother from seed... however there might be some other factor involved which im not aware of yet.. which is why I posted this!
GENETICALLY POSSIBLE?
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Anyone else know the answer? 
