cross breeding silver haze and purple widow

crayc

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Hi guys, I am growing delicious seeds super critical silver haze outdoors and Purple Widow (Sjamaan). The silver haze is feminized and the purple widow grew to be 2 males and 1 female. Growing these out in the Caribbean. The purple widow is predominant indica because it nly grew about a foot tall. The scsh is mostly sativa grow 3 foot tall. So my question is, if i allow the male to pollinate that female. would the make's characteristics be more dominant than that of the females. Like would the seeds i get from the female grow into that one foot plant vs. growing 3 foot.

I also have Malawi gold, 100 landrace pure sativa. which grew 2 colas at 4 feet each.Same question with that. Should i allow it to be pollinated. I want more seeds to continue the cycle.

thanks.
 

salman123

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am growing delicious seeds super critical silver haze outdoors and Purple Widow (Sjamaan). The silver haze is feminized and the purple widow grew to be 2 males and 1 female. Growing these out in the Caribbean. The purple widow is predominant indica because it nly grew about a foot tall. The scsh is mostly sativa grow 3 foot tall. So my question is, if i allow the male to pollinate that female. would the make's characteristics be more dominant than that of the females. Like would the seeds i get from the female grow into that one foot plant vs. growi


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Enwhysea

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did you create a 2nd account to ask the same question twice? and bro you're gonna have a 50/50 chance in each seed if you pollinate the female so one plant could be stretchy the other could be short and bushy just go for it
 

veggiegardener

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Control how many branches get pollen. Harvesting pollen into a paper bag and then placing the bag(s) over individual branches works very well. About 50 seeds per cross is adequate. Unless you have serious acreage, you'll never need more. When crossing diverse genetics, you may see 'hybrid vigor' expressed as very vigorous and often very potent crosses. I've been breeding my own crosses from seeds acquired from 5 continents. You never know how such crosses will come out, but the adventure is amazing.

Best of luck!
 

Farmer's Hat

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the only way to know what phenotypes are dominant/recessive is to cross the plants, and test the offspring. There is a chance that the offspring will exhibit the same characteristics as the mother or father. There is also a chance that the offspring will come out completely different than either mother or father. If both mother and father are unstable, then you could end up with a nice amount of variations in the offspring.

Also, your odds of producing a hermaphrodite offspring will be slightly higher than normal, because the silver haze comes from a feminized seed. Feminized seeds are nothing more than a by product of stressed induced hermaphroditism. You will come across some hermies. I suggest you discard the hermies that pop up. Select the vigorous plants, and pollinate them. In a few seasons you should have a good seed stock void of hermaphrodites.

Cross the two plants. You have nothing to lose, and much to gain....
 

veggiegardener

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Using gibberilic(sp) acid or silver thiosulfate to induce male flowers on a female plant has very little risk of hermaphrodites.
 
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