tstick
Well-Known Member
I was thinking about the Chemdog story...Guy selling some exceptionally good weed at a Grateful Dead concert....Someone saved a few seeds that came in the bag and grew them out....the rest is history....something like that.
Anyway...It got me thinking about where those seeds came from. Were they seeds that came from a pollination involving a separate male plant? Or, were those seeds, likely produced from a 'nanner of the female plant, itself? And, IF it was a 'nanner that "fathered" the Chemdog, then wouldn't that tendency be carried on in any hybrid that would subsequently be made using the original Chemdog bag seed?
And, to take it another step backwards....How many of the old, original, landrace strains were likely to display tendencies for true hermaphrodites and/or intersex traits? When did growers start figuring out to select for cultivars that were less likely to produce 'nanners or throw up a bunch of mixed male and female flowers? And, by all rights, don't ALL seeds, regardless of breeders, carry these genetic predispositions to one degree or another?
Just to add another talking point...a more personal one...
In my latest grow, I decided to grow a couple of bag seeds that I got from a jar of recreational weed. Well, no surprise, when the plants started to show preflowers, there were some pistols AND "balls" showing up. But, instead of throwing them out, as I have done in the past, I let them grow alongside the other plants -keeping a close eye on those male preflowers. As the plants grew, they were smaller...more sluggish... "raggy" looking. And it became obvious that these bag seed plants were building flowers that contained about 50/50 percent male and female flower parts, I decided to move them into a separate area with my orchids. I decided to observe and study the process of how these intersex, bag seed plants grew -just for the heck of it!
About a month into flower, the bag seed plants began to stink...and I mean like real, real stinky, skunky, dank, delicious marijuana! At the same time, the flowers were full of balls AND pistols...but the pistol development started to exceed the ball development. After a few more weeks the trichomes on the bag seed plants had developed and the heads are huge and milky! I decided to chop most of the plants and froze the buds with the idea of making some fresh frozen bubble hash. At the same time, I left a few buds on the original plants to see if I can re-veg them.
I mean...I wouldn't have expected to get anything from this type of plant, but it's looking like they might end up producing some exceptional trichomes -albeit not in any kind of high-yielding way....but, still..
Also, interestingly, even though the plants produced all kinds of balls that opened to expose the inner 'nanner clusters.....none of them opened and dropped any pollen! Weird, huh?
Anyway...It got me thinking about where those seeds came from. Were they seeds that came from a pollination involving a separate male plant? Or, were those seeds, likely produced from a 'nanner of the female plant, itself? And, IF it was a 'nanner that "fathered" the Chemdog, then wouldn't that tendency be carried on in any hybrid that would subsequently be made using the original Chemdog bag seed?
And, to take it another step backwards....How many of the old, original, landrace strains were likely to display tendencies for true hermaphrodites and/or intersex traits? When did growers start figuring out to select for cultivars that were less likely to produce 'nanners or throw up a bunch of mixed male and female flowers? And, by all rights, don't ALL seeds, regardless of breeders, carry these genetic predispositions to one degree or another?
Just to add another talking point...a more personal one...
In my latest grow, I decided to grow a couple of bag seeds that I got from a jar of recreational weed. Well, no surprise, when the plants started to show preflowers, there were some pistols AND "balls" showing up. But, instead of throwing them out, as I have done in the past, I let them grow alongside the other plants -keeping a close eye on those male preflowers. As the plants grew, they were smaller...more sluggish... "raggy" looking. And it became obvious that these bag seed plants were building flowers that contained about 50/50 percent male and female flower parts, I decided to move them into a separate area with my orchids. I decided to observe and study the process of how these intersex, bag seed plants grew -just for the heck of it!
About a month into flower, the bag seed plants began to stink...and I mean like real, real stinky, skunky, dank, delicious marijuana! At the same time, the flowers were full of balls AND pistols...but the pistol development started to exceed the ball development. After a few more weeks the trichomes on the bag seed plants had developed and the heads are huge and milky! I decided to chop most of the plants and froze the buds with the idea of making some fresh frozen bubble hash. At the same time, I left a few buds on the original plants to see if I can re-veg them.
I mean...I wouldn't have expected to get anything from this type of plant, but it's looking like they might end up producing some exceptional trichomes -albeit not in any kind of high-yielding way....but, still..
Also, interestingly, even though the plants produced all kinds of balls that opened to expose the inner 'nanner clusters.....none of them opened and dropped any pollen! Weird, huh?
