i think your all over reacting a bit.
@Gu~ simply said he was getting some advice from riot on making stable fems. he didnt say riot was making them or he was partnering with riot. its not going to change the way Gu operates hes just talking to the guy.
personally though i wont buy fems, always grown regs and i like them. hope doing fems doesnt take time and space away from the regs. i hope Gu hasnt given up on finding some new males and making some different reg crosses
I run everything. Regs, fems, and even autos.
I want to clarify in the fem thing. I run them. I also make them. I don't further the line by making fems.
F1 hybrids perform well. Fairly uniform as well. It's common in corn and such to sell hybrid f1. One if the main reasons is to keep people coming back to buy more. It would take many generations to work that line and farmers just buy more each year.
I grow and store a lot of heirloom seeds of All kinds. Cannabis, flowers and vegetables. At the same time I will run store bought hybrids.
It's the same with cannabis. For production F1 is ok.
I can't run large numbers. I keep the number down. I have a few that I like to run but I buy new strains all the time. I usually make a fem cross of all new stuff I get. If they are regs I labem them so and keep so I have males if I want. I also freeze large btaches of pollen from a good stud if I like it.
I also have strains I worked for years when I grew outdoors.
I like a good mix. Main reason I like autos are for medicinal reasons. My wife's autoimmune disease responds better to autoflower. I suspect it's the CBD and other cannabinoids specific to rderalis. The go isn't always to get high.
I digress. Yes. It would take aot of extra work and help to grow fem seeds. It's simple in concept but harder to carry out.
If it were me and wanted to make sure I didn't mess up I would make fem seeds in a different location than reg seeds. I would run different workers. They work thier side to keep the chance of accidental pollination down.
If that wasn't possible I would run them where you had the inner area where the grow is with pollen filters and the outside area where you enter with another set of filters. Shower and clean clothes or uniform required.
That's the only way you could garuntee not to cross pollinate.
When I pollinate it's a small area to clean. Hepa and pollen filter on the air handler and another set on the grow area. After I chop I clean and then grow another round pollen free to make sure no residual pollen is left.
When I clean it I break everything down and wash it then dry. Mop and clean everything. Put it all back up and spray with bleach water one more time then let it dry.
Kind of long just decided to clarify.
