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Ok so I have a bunch of feminized auto seeds I’m going to grow but I wanna breed them. Now I Heard you can use CS on a plant to get female pollen but I read somewhere that you don’t wanna do it to a plant that was grown from a feminized seed cause it will mess the genetics up. Now I’m new to this and not sure if that’s true. Also if it will work and everything would be good would crossing like a white widow auto with say a xxl afgan be a problem? Sorry if I sound stupid just don’t wanna waste my seeds and I don’t wanna have to keep paying for autos lol.
 
You can cross any varieties. Xxl to a dwarf or vice versa. I've never heard that CS affects genetics but I'm no expert, just a pollen checker. @pop22 uses STS, check his grows for directions
 
The «fuck up» here is inbreeding depression
 
Yes u can get pollen from a female, if you use this pollen on the same plant as giving the pollen it’s like two twins having a child, it’s a high risk of some sort of problems.
On the other hand, taking feminized pollen from one plant and pollinate a female from a different strain should be like any normal crossing, the only difference will be almost 100% female offsprings/seeds
 
genetically, there is no difference from using a real male, or a reversed female(except ofcourse the progeny will be all female). no messing up of genes or anything, you can freely breed with feminized seeds.

however, I think the confusion comes from people who don't distinguish between hermi's and feminizing.
children will be similar to their parents(ofcourse not exactly the same, and it depends how stable/inbred the parents are, but still, you'll see traits from the parents back in the children). so breeding with hermis is a bad idea, since the children will be more likely to be hermis too.

however, when feminzing with chemicals, you're messing with the hormones. the plant may look like a hermi, but it has no increased genetic tendency to hermi(ofcourse to be sure pf no hermis it should still be tested for hermitendencies before using it to feminize, but the process of feminizing itself has no influence on genes, just hormones).

there is the thing with inbreeding depression(think of medieval aristocratic families in humans: keep getting children within your own family, and you'll start to see negative mutations that were already there, but were hidden, that come out when inbreeding), but if you don't want inbreeding, you can just cross 2 unrelated females.
crossing a plant to itself(selfing) which feminizing makes possible is a more extreme form of inbreeding as brother-sister inbreeding, so you get quicker results when breeding, buit also hit inbreeding depression faster. your choice how much inbreeding you want to do, it's a balance between an unstable strain/line and inbreeding depression.
however if you reverse a female plant, then pollinate one of her sisters with the feminized pollen, it's exactly the same as using a brother for inbreeding. but the children will still be all female.

so feminizing is a nice tool, and you have to decide yourself wether it's the right tool for the goal you want to chieve with it.
personally I think some people in the weedworld are a litttle too afraid of inbreeding depression. sure, it's bad, but unstable genetics that don't breed true at all are bad too.
 
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