Do seeds from feminized plants produce feminized seeds?

[Mookush]

I bought some feminized seeds from a reputable seller, which grew into nice plants with lots of flowers. While pruning them, I found a total of about 10 seeds in them. My question is, if I were to plant these seeds, what would happen? Would they all produce feminized plants? Or are they viable at all?

Don't want to go through the trouble of planting them if they will not produce. Thanks!

 

[smokened]

the question is where did the polen come from? if they were feminized seeds, you hadn't males. Maybe one of them was hermaphrodite and that polen produced the seeds.

 

[Severed Tongue]

10 seeds is more likely herm trait than pollinated.
regardless, seeds will be regular 50/50 chance male/female I think?

 

[tkufoS]

I bought some feminized seeds from a reputable seller, which grew into nice plants with lots of flowers. While pruning them, I found a total of about 10 seeds in them. My question is, if I were to plant these seeds, what would happen? Would they all produce feminized plants? Or are they viable at all?

Don't want to go through the trouble of planting them if they will not produce. Thanks!

You won't know if you don't grow

 

[Cheecharoni]

If plant pollinated itself they will be female. Was there any chance if pollen from another plant?

 

[Mookush]

There were 5 plants in all, which were all supposed to have come from feminized seeds. I am almost done pruning them and ended up with a total of about 30 seeds. It is highly unlikely that pollen came from elsewhere, and there were little "thingies" on some buds that looked like incompletely formed seeds (sorry, I am not an expert and don't know how else to describe them). I have never seen a hermie plant but the hermie theory sounds viable. So if there was one or more hermie plants and I were to plant those seeds, would I end up with both male and female plants?

 

[JHake]

It's variable in my experience.

For instance: a friend and i planted some seeds found in a bud. I did it outdoors, he was indoors. In his case, nanners were present in late flower, while in my case the plant matured really good. I believe that when doing it indoors, my friend had some heat stress and the dubious origin of the seed presented a tendency to hermie under those stressful conditions.

I've found only 2-3 seeds on that good outdoor plant and sowed them. Guess what i found yesterday? A male sack in early flower. Not the late flower nanners, just a male sack in early flower. A true hermie.

So...first "selfed" generation of the seed was good in my case, but the selfed seed that the plant gave, ended up being a hermie.

 

[OG-KGP]

FEMALE X FEMALE = FEMS

 

[Mookush]

Sounds like growing anything else, in that the only way to know for sure is to actually try it. Now I am curious to find out what happens, so I will plant a dozen or so of these seeds next year to see.

Thanks all.

 

[tkufoS]

You won't know if you don't grow

Sounds like growing anything else, in that the only way to know for sure is to actually try it. Now I am curious to find out what happens, so I will plant a dozen or so of these seeds next year to see.

Thanks all.

 

[curious2garden]

There were 5 plants in all, which were all supposed to have come from feminized seeds. I am almost done pruning them and ended up with a total of about 30 seeds. It is highly unlikely that pollen came from elsewhere, and there were little "thingies" on some buds that looked like incompletely formed seeds (sorry, I am not an expert and don't know how else to describe them). I have never seen a hermie plant but the hermie theory sounds viable. So if there was one or more hermie plants and I were to plant those seeds, would I end up with both male and female plants?

Unless foreign male pollen was introduced they will all be female. They will also carry the tendency to herm from their parent. So you may see more seeds.

 

[Mookush]

Thanks Curious. A few seeds a year from a feminized hermie plant will save me the expense or ordering seeds every year, so that actually works out great.

 

[C. Nesbitt]

Thanks Curious. A few seeds a year from a feminized hermie plant will save me the expense or ordering seeds every year, so that actually works out great.

It can be a nice cost savings. The thing to be careful of is amplifying the hermie tendency in the offspring.
Reputable seed breeders create feminized seeds through use of STS (typically) to force a female to produce male flowers and pollen.
The seeds you’ve gotten were likely from a natural hermie where a female plant(or plants) threw some male flowers out all on its own.
I’m not trying to discourage you from planting those seeds, I’ve got some too from this year that I’m going to plant in the spring.
But, but keep a sharper eye out for full blown male flowers clusters next year. Those can really ruin a run.

 

[Mookush]

Really?! Thanks for such important advice. I am rather new to this, so it is a learning experience. I now know what male and hermie plants look like, so I will make sure to keep a close eye out for them.

 

[curious2garden]

Really?! Thanks for such important advice. I am rather new to this, so it is a learning experience. I now know what male and hermie plants look like, so I will make sure to keep a close eye out for them.

See my second sentence, "They will also carry the tendency to herm from their parent."

Anyway it's fine to plant whatever you want and I run deliberately seeded and often reversed plants all the time. A female seed run is ready for chop as we speak. The point is do not give those seeds to anyone without warning them that they came from a natural herm and you don't know if they are stable.

Now as you gain skill and run them you may find they are less prone to hermaphrodism. Stress can reverse a plant. All cannabis has the natural tendency to hermaphrodism.

 

[Dabs_Offa_Hot9]

FEMALE X FEMALE = FEMS

Ummm.....nope. I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.

I believe that true fem seeds are created by taking a female who has NOT shown hermie traits and forcing her to herm, then using that pollen on a separate female that has NOT shown hermie traits. Any other method of making fem seeds is asking for trouble, like increased chances of hermaphrodites. If I'm wrong, please enlighten me

 

[curious2garden]

Ummm.....nope. I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.

I believe that true fem seeds are created by taking a female who has NOT shown hermie traits and forcing her to herm, then using that pollen on a separate female that has NOT shown hermie traits. Any other method of making fem seeds is asking for trouble, like increased chances of hermaphrodites. If I'm wrong, please enlighten me

Female x female = female. You don't have a Y chromosome in the mix so you can't get an actual male.

All cannabis is prone to hermaphrodism, especially under stress. You are simply discussing 'best' practices now. That is far more subjective material. Nothing wrong with using the beans he has as long as he doesn't pass them to others as stable genetics.

 

[Coldnasty]

Ummm.....nope. I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.

I believe that true fem seeds are created by taking a female who has NOT shown hermie traits and forcing her to herm, then using that pollen on a separate female that has NOT shown hermie traits. Any other method of making fem seeds is asking for trouble, like increased chances of hermaphrodites. If I'm wrong, please enlighten me

Lol ok

 

[Dabs_Offa_Hot9]

Lol ok

I wasn't aware that I was being humorous, but ok

 

[MickFoster]

If the seeds were produced through rodelization the seeds will be feminized.
Plants that throw out some nanners late in flower are not hermaphrodites..........contrary to some of the above posts.