Making female seeds (breeders help)

Shaynweed

Member
Hi i have two plants
One is tangie turn completely male although i buy them as female seeds (I think it’s because of stress she turn male before flowering stage start)
One ak is female
Can i pollination lower bud sites of my ak to produce female hybrids seeds?
 

Kindbud421

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They would be 50/50 male female seeds. Nice cross though. You can pollinate the one and get seeds that are half male/ half female then grow those seeds and use colloidal silver or silver thiosulfate (STS) to reverse your plants to produce female seeds. Probably will not be stable genetics though. You will have to work it for a few cycles to stabilize.
 

Opie1971

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If they were both fem seeds then you will have fem offspring. But if it hermied on ya chances are it’s offspring would have a very high tendency to do the same, so I wouldn’t use it.
 

curious2garden

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They would be 50/50 male female seeds. Nice cross though. You can pollinate the one and get seeds that are half male/ half female then grow those seeds and use colloidal silver or silver thiosulfate (STS) to reverse your plants to produce female seeds. Probably will not be stable genetics though. You will have to work it for a few cycles to stabilize.
Interesting assumption, what has your rate been? With all the reversals I've done only 1 has been unstable. So personally I assume stability vs instability.
 

Observe & Report

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One is tangie turn completely male although i buy them as female seeds (I think it’s because of stress she turn male before flowering stage start)
If you have grown this genotype before as a female then you're probably right. However, could be a real male from random pollen in the air. I have no idea what the relative odds are but I suspect contamination is more likely. There is no way to know without sending it in for a genetic sex test. Nobody ever seems to do that though.
 

Shaynweed

Member
Cou
They would be 50/50 male female seeds. Nice cross though. You can pollinate the one and get seeds that are half male/ half female then grow those seeds and use colloidal silver or silver thiosulfate (STS) to reverse your plants to produce female seeds. Probably will not be stable genetics though. You will have to work it for a few cycles to stabilize.
Could u explain how to use sts ?
 

Shaynweed

Member
If you have grown this genotype before as a female then you're probably right. However, could be a real male from random pollen in the air. I have no idea what the relative odds are but I suspect contamination is more likely. There is no way to know without sending it in for a genetic sex test. Nobody ever seems to do that though.
No it’s my first time with these seeds and im not sure 100% that my seeds were female
I bought them as a feminized from my dealer but i think he breed them himself that tange turn male completely has a exceed light burn in his veg stage that stun it for couple days
They were two plant so as their nature one turn male and one female
What do u mean contamination?
 

Shaynweed

Member
No it’s my first time with these seeds and im not sure 100% that my seeds were female
I bought them as a feminized from my dealer but i think he breed them himself that tange turn male completely has a exceed light burn in his veg stage that stun it for couple days
They were two plant so as their nature one turn male and one female
What do u mean contamination?
So a female seed can completely turn male through a high strees befor start bloom
 

C. Nesbitt

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Could u explain how to use sts ?

(Search function is often useful)
 

Shaynweed

Member
If they were both fem seeds then you will have fem offspring. But if it hermied on ya chances are it’s offspring would have a very high tendency to do the same, so I wouldn’t use it.
Is it possible for a female seed to completely become male ?
 
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