crossing regular and feminized question

[autorush]

i want to cross some autos that i have. i will get some regular Onix pollen from a male and then i want to put it on a feminized auto that i bought online. will the seeds hermi and if they do what is the chance of them turning hermaphrodites on me.

 

[Northern Grower]

There will be a certain % of them that will herm. But every strain or line has it in there some place. Breeding to a fem plant isn't a "best practice" method but many strains have come from selfed seed or feminized mom's..

The whole chem line spawned from hermied bag seed, look where that had gotten.

All you will have to do is watch for the herms, and not ever breed with them. You'll be able to work the herm's into recessiveness if you select away from them every generation.

All you can do is make the X, and test the progeny.

 

[autorush]

thank for the reply. the strains that i really want to auto are all fems, well not all but most and i just wanted to know if it was worth messing with them.

 

[JM]

If you're using pollen from a normal Male, and using it on fem'ed seeds. Yes there may be some hermies but NOT nearly the amount if you had forced a fem seed to hermie, collect its pollen and used that pollen. You should be fine. And totally worth messing with. Good luck & keep us informed.​

Is this typical with all feminization? or just a rsult of bad breeding or mistakes in the fem process?
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[TshirtNinja]

yah fem seeds by definition are 1 of 2 things.

1. They are females that you let flower extra so that they make some nanners and self pollinate.

2. They are female plants that were sprayed with colloidal silver solution which forced them to grow pollen sacks and again self pollinate. The difference here is that you can decide when to start the process so you can make out like a bandit on the amount of seeds you get since this is the only reason why you would be doing so.

The resulting seed will be female since it has only female genetics. This also means that it has a higher percentage chance of receiving the hermie gene since it was a hermie itself. Any breeding with feminised seeds is then riskier and riskier when you consider that it could have been cross bred with something that you didn't know was a feminized stock as well. So simply put feminized seeds are riskier for hermies but worth it as a space saver.

 

[infamousralphster]

Hmm. that must be why most seed banks(practically all reputable ones) only sell fem autos. The breeders are proctecting their strains. It would take several harvests to stabilize the auto. By that time the o.g. Breeder would/should have made more progress with the strain thus keeping several steps ahead of the game. The way I see it unless you are breeding for a new strain, there is little chance of competing with the quality of the seedbanks. IMO of coarse. Still worth playing around with tho because I would love to create my own strain. Someday

 

[mmar]

thank for the reply. the strains that i really want to auto are all fems, well not all but most and i just wanted to know if it was worth messing with them.

Is your female seeds from a stable breeder?.

 

[onlyin420]

I use colloidal Silver all the time and have had 1 hermie seed. Why? Forcing a hermie does NOT give hermie DNA. You will in fact have FEWER hermies when using colloidal silver (for first generation only). Now if I breed with those seeds there is a higher % chance of mutations. However if you do it right you will have enough seeds from that one breed that you wont have to breed the children. What I have not done is used silver on one strain then crossed that pollen with another strain. I am guessing catastrophe... but I REALLY want to know.

 

[Sourdough]

I use colloidal Silver all the time and have had 1 hermie seed. Why? Forcing a hermie does NOT give hermie DNA. You will in fact have FEWER hermies when using colloidal silver (for first generation only). Now if I breed with those seeds there is a higher % chance of mutations. However if you do it right you will have enough seeds from that one breed that you wont have to breed the children. What I have not done is used silver on one strain then crossed that pollen with another strain. I am guessing catastrophe... but I REALLY want to know.

Because you will still only have female chromosomes it would be a feminized cross. To me I wouldn't use them for breeding anymore. But could be some great smoke.

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[onlyin420]

My thoughts exactly. I'm gonna try it with these