Gotta ask this question about femenization...

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LordWinter

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Okay, after about a week of reading through books and forums and seed banks, I've got just one question:

Why bother with feminized seeds? You're forced to use only female plants. Nothing wrong with the girlies, they give us the good stuff, but if you don't have the ability to germinate some seeds you're screwed if something happens to your grow (mothers and all, might be rare, but it CAN happen) and you have to buy more feminized seeds.

And I've heard talk of using bagseed to get pollen from; won't this destabilize the genetics of whatever strain you're using?
 
JealousGreen

JealousGreen

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Indeed. I'd trust your instincts on that. I always buy standard seeds. Occasionally you find a really awesome male to use to make seeds. Feminized seeds run a greater risk of going hermie on you as well.
 
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LordWinter

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That's the shame of it all, Jealous, I look at the seedbanks, especially at Attitude, and all the best stuff is feminized. As a soon-to-be med patient and grower, it is disheartening to see all the enthusiasts out there just embrace something that is so limiting in it's scope. What's amazing is that the majority of the community has accepted it.
 
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frmrboi

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LordWinter said:
What's amazing is that the majority of the community has accepted it.
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it's what the majority wants, that's why, I don't myself though.
A breeder can protect his breeding by selling only feminized so that nobody can make a good knock off.
 
shagster

shagster

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Im attempting to get some seed. I have some Northern lights growing now I hoping to keep one male alive and get some pollen off it. I was going to pollinate just 1 flower site .

Can you get seed from a hermie plant?
 
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LordWinter

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Meh, they'd do better by following the AKC's model of pedigree protection. If you're not familiar, look into it. There's some pretty clever tricks to be found there.

As for it being what the majority wants, that's what I'm saying. Wanting is accepting. Specialty communities like this and others (breeder communities especially) are known for how they police themselves and maintain a certain... equilibrium. That's what makes it amazing to me.
 
Justin00

Justin00

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i was under the impression that the process of feminizing a strain involved suppling certain chemicals to it to induce herming so that the female plant could be crossed with itself or another female plant leaving only female genetics. of course this was only one of the steps in creating a truly feminized strain.
 
tet1953

tet1953

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Justin00 said:
i was under the impression that the process of feminizing a strain involved suppling certain chemicals to it to induce herming so that the female plant could be crossed with itself or another female plant leaving only female genetics. of course this was only one of the steps in creating a truly feminized strain.
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Here's what G.O.D. was alluding to:

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/387589-producing-feminised-seeds-using-colloidal.html?highlight=colloidal+silver
 
JealousGreen

JealousGreen

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shagster said:
If a hermie pollinates itself. Then you bag seed.
Is that the equivalent of a clones of the original? or is there degradation from the original?
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Bag seed is generally from males that managed to pollenate females in a large outdoor commercial crop. If they were hermie then all the seeds in bags of schwag would be either female or hermie. I've seen tons of males grown out from Mexican schwag.
 
JealousGreen

JealousGreen

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HHermies that pollenate themselves will produce offspring similar to themselves, but there will be variation. so its not really like Cloning itself.
 
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