Bear Country
Well-Known Member
I think your acessment on how chemdawg,og kush,sour diesel etc... came about, is probably accurate, but ask ANY major breeder who has worked with these genetics and the vast majority of them will tell you that those strains are very prone to hermie tendencies. All those mentioned strains originate from the same genetic stock. I have seen it myself. I'm not saying that those strains are not great strains...I am simply saying that somewhere along the line there was a unstable hermie prone gene and it still shows up here and there. Some might argue that it was that very stress induced pollen which you talk about that might be the culprit!! Big difference in stress induced pollen vs chemical induced reversal ( CS/STS) IMHO.I would say that Chemdawg, OG kush, Sour Diesel, ect. all came from stress induced pollen by accident in somebodys room and look what they have become with no CS or STS. Dont you guys think that Subcool using Space Dude as his male over and over in his crosses is effecting the genetic pool in more of a bad way then breeders crossing 2 clone only females to each other making new strains. DNA has lots of fem seeds crossed to fem seed, Holy Grail Kush comes to mind. og18 came from seed and so did kosher which created a all feminized seed cross. What im getting at is I see no difference fem or regular female genetics to breed with, its already been done and works either way. Every pack of feminized seeds where there was 2 different females in cross has been better then any regular seeds ive ever bought. Selfed females S1's, as in 1 female crossed to herself i have had bad luck with never being anywhere near as good as original mom.
In my experience with breeding, if you start with well worked stable genetics that are NOT prone to hermie tendencies....your chances are pretty dam good that any resulting ceed you make will be free of hermie tendencies. The same is true if you breed with a strain that has been known to have hermie tendencies, chances are that somewhere down the line thats what your gonna see. As far as you noticing those fem crosses being better then the original regular seed ....well that may be the case for some fem crosses but cant be considered to be that way for all fem crosses. Reg ceed hybreed crosses are made everyday and in some cases you hit the jackpot...hybreed vigor represents itself very well but some turn out to be just so so. Thats just breeding for you....you never know how those genes are going to combine whether you are using fem ceed plants to cross or regular ceed . Like I said..you may hit one out of the park on one go around and strike out on the next go around!! Thats why breeders libraries dont have a ton of selection. The vast majority of breeding projects end up in file 13!!!