..... so, you've been in contact with Female? Have you read up here in their section, and spoken to
@gennaro-fs ? I'm not getting you mate, if you're not interested in fast blooming strains, why the interest in breeding them? This is more complicated that you know, as far as what's fast, and the amount of auto's genetics bred into and remaining in them,... Look up in the Sweet Seeds section, the info on F1FV strains,... if you've read Female's info, you know some of their strains do have
ruderalis genetics in them only for the purpose of speeding up blooming speed, but are bred differently from what Sweet does,... Female made them faster to finish in time for those growing outside in high latitude climates, short seasons,....
Upon more research through reviews on other websites I also found that some of their strains tend to hermie late into flower.
Have I been ripped off by a company with crappy unstable genetics??
Or is it common for fast finishing photoperiods to get one of the autoflower phenos?
Is it a bad idea to make these mothers?
>>> the tendency to hermie is in part strain dependent,... some no matter how well bred show this (Blueberry is known for this),... late bloom nanners are in fact fairly common, no matter the breeding or strain, stressed or not (any stress plays a huge role there).. this is the plants survival reactions to not getting knocked up,.... also, there is some truth to fem'ed seeds showing increased tendency to do this as well,... this in NOT the same deal as a full intersex plant, showing fully developed male flowers originating from node junctions,.. nanners always occur in the bud proper, and don't show the full male flowers components.... finally, the grower's treatment of the plant plays a big role in the expression of any such hermie tendencies,.... That's why Female is grilling you on your grow details!
Keep in mind each seed, no matter what-- fem'ed or not, auto or not, part auto or not, is a little gamble,... no such thing as perfection here, sorry,... and there's a lengthy list of other things that can cause problems with anybody's genetics....
As for your results and experience, those details about the grow, I don't know,.... first thing to look at is human error starting with the seed bank,... screw-up's are hardly uncommon in packing and labeling!... As for photo's with auto genes in them, at the depth of F generation Females works them to, no way should a photo' show to be an auto,.. that's a double recessive gene which is astronomically unlikely to manifest a full auto,...
>>> So far here as I can tell, nobody has had significant problems with Female, auto or photo,...several members and staff have run them and so far, nothing but praise,... That you got the results you did, I don't doubt, but to have that many "bad" plants in one batch is very very unlucky and odd,...
sex bud - starting to flower after moving from 24 hour LED to 18/6 hour CFL
--- photo' seedlings can run temporarily under 24/0, but not for long,...anything with auto/rudi' genes will be more sensitive to light hour changes (even if it's not to 12/12), and many breeders make deliberate note of mentioning this because of that,... what you did with this one is why it flowered unexpectedly,... and is exactly what Female "designed" the plants to do to cope with short season growing,... you realize Sex Bud is a reworked Cindy99, nearly pure Sativa? That is not a fast strain at all usually, even if you got it from Brothers Grimm,.... this is the why behind breeding with auto/rudi', to make such strains possible to finish where they normally likely wouldn't.... As for the others let's see what Gennaro says,....
Have I been ripped off by a company with crappy unstable genetics??
I mostly just want advice from the members here because clearly they know more than this company will ever know
I get your frustration, but if you went looking for misfires and problems on google, you'll find them with pretty much any breeder,.. what you don't know (or can't) is how many other no-problem grows are behind the statistically minute number of problem grows,....You're welcome to your opinion, but no way Female, after all these years and brutal competition, would still be around if their genetics were lousy, plain fact there,... Word gets around fast these days! -here, especially,...and that parting comment does you no service either, "members" are not breeders, or know the deep details about auto breeding.... read up the the Female section, when they first came aboard here,.. we grilled them plenty, looked into their rep' well before giving them the green light here,...
