Making female pollen sacks

sparkdabud420

sparkdabud420

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Now if I read this correctly I am lead to believe that it isn't good for a plant to go all hermaphrodite on anyone, as this is a trait that would surly follow on to the subsequent generations.
At the same time it is common practice to make female plants produce pollen sacks and therefore making a hermaphrodite out of a perfectly good growing lady.
Here is my problem with this, if it is bad to get a female to hermie but we want to force a given female plant, however few branches we still force the female to make male pollen in essence forcing it to be a hermie.
This trait would then be passed down to the offspring of this plant, at least that is the way I see it in my head. So this is leading me to believe that all of the so-called female seeds produced would have this trait in them correct? Please help me to break this down as I am either on the correct path and am very worried about buying any female seeds, or I am over thinking this and there is nothing wrong with the forced production of pollen on a perfectly nice and blooming female. :blsmoke:
 
mikek420

mikek420

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if the female in question has been bloomed with no stress, she won't have hermaphrodite tendancies. A lot of F sativas will produce fem bananas if they grow long enough, its the plants way of keeping the genetics alive
 
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PurpleBuz

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sparkdabud420 said:
Now if I read this correctly I am lead to believe that it isn't good for a plant to go all hermaphrodite on anyone, as this is a trait that would surly follow on to the subsequent generations.
At the same time it is common practice to make female plants produce pollen sacks and therefore making a hermaphrodite out of a perfectly good growing lady.
Here is my problem with this, if it is bad to get a female to hermie but we want to force a given female plant, however few branches we still force the female to make male pollen in essence forcing it to be a hermie.
This trait would then be passed down to the offspring of this plant, at least that is the way I see it in my head. So this is leading me to believe that all of the so-called female seeds produced would have this trait in them correct? Please help me to break this down as I am either on the correct path and am very worried about buying any female seeds, or I am over thinking this and there is nothing wrong with the forced production of pollen on a perfectly nice and blooming female. :blsmoke:
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The production of fem seed for use in production growing with current techniques (silver) will not increase the chances of the production plants producing nanners. The fem seed will have similar tendencies to produce male parts on a female plant as any self'd progeny.

HOWEVER It is good breeding practice to not use fem seed production for developing strains as a shortcut to selfing a strain, since the tendency to produce male parts on a female plant is inheritable and can be inadvertently selected in a breeding population irregardless of the method used.
 
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