Alright thanks man, but I'm also sort of a dumbass and so how does one pollinate seeds? Is this something you do after you extract the seeds?
Nothing.
ive used female spray with success getting a male branch, ive been trying to create a few of my owne strains only useing stabilized hybrids or landraces to create f1 hybrids
Ive also used the rhodilization method were you leave the plant in flower until it stresses out a male banana,but its very time consuming and i would recomend the spray... i has a northern lights plant that took 102 days to get a banana the buds were toast,worthless and the banana wasnt even viable pollen
Running clones sort of defeats the purpose of running feminized seeds. While feminized itself doesn't have to mean more chance to hermie, the reality is that a lot of feminized bean makers are crappy breeders. If you're going to look for a female to clone, you might as well look for one from a regular pack. If you don't want to clone but still have only female, use feminized seeds. That "could" be there reasoning.
Thanks for the info,, but i still cant see how a reg seed female is any better than a fem seed female..That is if im getting the fem seed from good seed companies.. I see your point on if i was growing outdoors or something and needed to be sure they are females, to use fem seeds but even indoors if i dont have the time to be planting seeds and pulling males..I prefer buying fem seeds to save time and in my expierience they grow, smell, and produce just as well as a regular seed female would. I think danny danco needs to start answering the new questions rather than the same old 1's that have been answered 1000 times.. and if he recomends using reg seeds to pick your mother be specific and tell us why!! Sorry im blowing off steam,,, thank you for your point of view, but maybe ask around see if anyone has the real answer to this question...Thanks again for any info!
umm, because danny dorko is a fucking nit wit maybe?
LOL! I've always thought this. Anyone remember "potstar" from hightimes? The original canna-idiot!
The mistake you make is thinking Danny (or High Times) is an authoritative source of info while the reason he says it is a lack of both knowledge and experience, it's not some secret he only knows. He's just parrotting popular bullshit. It's a grow myth spawned by hermaphobists and frequently parroted in the netherlands as well. There's a direct relation between clones becoming illegal here (no longer in growshops) and the popularity of fem seeds. Using clones makes fem seeds unnecessary. Breeders and especially those who don't breed but merely make fem beans are in the game to sell you seeds, they don't want you to find a keeper and clone it.
That is indeed part of the problem with some fem seeds. Lazy breeders cross two plants into F1, then self or cross the F1, leading to and F2, which has the most variation, i.e. is the most unstable generation.
How do you create an f1 hybrid?
Can you elaborate? you didn't explain what leads to an f2. thx
