I have a question about making seeds. If I get some regular seeds grow a male plant. Then pollinate a female plant that was grown from feminized seeds. What kind of seeds do I get?
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regular...with a slite chance of a hermi popping up everynow and again in the offsprings....:smokebuds:
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When i made my first successful cross that is how i done it,since then,with multiple runs of f1's i have had 2 hermies-and they started off as males and shot a few pistils .
Are you saying because there was a fem seed involved it has a higher chance of herming?
Sts , CS and GA do no make your plant a hermaphrodite to produce fem seed.
They alter the Ethylene levels in the treated areas of the plant so it can only grow as a male.
Nothing like stressing a plant to Herman.
The chances of a hermi are genetically determined.
They will not have any more chance of herming then if it was bread with regular seed.
100% correct.
None of the chemistry causes the incidence of herming. When a non auto flower is reversed it should come from a mother plant with a long history of not herming. Autos on the other hand------at least until now with some of the supers--- don't live long enough to make clones so the reversed plant has not had a chance to show if it is a hermaphrodite- this causes a few inferior plants to be bred and that will cause a rise in the incidence of herming. Best to grow out a number of the fem line and make a check that the unfertilized plants are hermaphordite free. Then hope the reversed plant is also safe. Or in your case the one you put pollen on------ as fertilized plants are less incline to hermi you check by way of her sisters.
Years ago, the process to make fem pollen used females that hermied when they were left to grow beyond the expiration date. This was the original type of fem pollen. Nowadays, CS and STS are used to reverse a female for pollen.
Modern fem seeds produce no more hermies than non fems, but the story that they do and shouldn't be used for breeding, isn't going to die any time soon.
Modern fem seeds produce no more hermies than non fems, but the story that they do and shouldn't be used for breeding, isn't going to die any time soon.
