Oh brother, didnt GHS claim to have 100% hermaphrodite free strains coming to market soon?
Farmer John said:Oh brother, didnt GHS claim to have 100% hermaphrodite free strains coming to market soon?
Have you tried light leaks or heat stress on them? How about flowering them Extra long?DocLeaf said:To be fair to Franco. we haven't seen one male flower in any of his fem. lines as yet (we wouldn't ever use them for breeding,, but that's another matter).
edit: the only fem. lines with several phenos in the same packet!! (how does he do that???) perhaps him be smarter than ppl be giving credit for :wink:
Excellent, so we really do agree, then... I'm not talking about using inter-sexed individuals for 1st generation crosses, but as a starting point for a project... And I am definately not talking about making 'feminised' seeds or any seeds using pollen from a stress reversal, just classic male/female crossing... I simply could not and cannot accept the statement that 100% of all inter-sexed plants are valueless in a breeding project.Sam_Skunkman said:It is one thing to try and clean up a variety to remove all the intersexed genes and quite another to just use it as a hermi to breed new hybrids.
The main reason I differ here, is that ionic silver(which does exist in nature, and it is not unfeasible that a group of plants could be grown in an area with high natural silver deposits), has the exact same effect as silver thiosulfate (and it's not even poison). If you're going to call un-natural light cycles a natural environmental stress, then you have to call silver stress one as well.As for your question about the difference between STS and light or heat stress, I do not have scientific proof like you want. I do listen to my inner voice and I usually end up right, but I do admit when I am wrong sometimes.
Logic tells me that there is a difference between environmental stress and STS, one can happen in nature the other never does. And today with under lights growing photo disorders are a natural environmental stress that will happen to every clone.
But it isn't science until it is proven, and my opinion or theory that the 'biological mechanics' of the various stress induced reversals are not very different is as valid as any other unproven but plausable theory. What ever the source of the stress, it is really the processes it induces that count, not the stress source.Opinion or unproved theories are what all science came from, and when you are on the cutting edge opinion may be all you have to go on.
And I have a lot of respect for you for the work you've done, and the opinions you have... In fact I actually differ very little from you opinion wise, just one minor point which is really a small part of a greater whole... I agree science is not fast, and rarely is it cheap... even if the cost is not in money it is in work...I had no proof that terpenoids contributed to the subjective high, everyone said I was nuts, but I knew they did, so I proved it. It took me 20 years to do so as I needed pure THC, CBD, CBC, CBG, THCV, as well as some of the 135+ Terpenoids and a vaporizor to do the work. Science is not cheap or fast.
Silver stress could very well indeed happen in nature. If the plant was not carrying a gene which allowed it to produce sex reversing hormones, how could STS work? Also, when you get to the reality of the situation... Even if you cannot stress a plant into reversing, there is still a possibility of it passing along a recessive gene and having inter-sexed progeny... Bottom line is, with out proof of the mechanisms which cause reversals and without a laboratory to test the genes of every plant to make sure they have no recessive traits and without facilities to grow out populations of hundreds of thousands, then breeding reversal proof (idiot proof) cannabis is a utopian pipe dream at best...To be honest I do not care enough to prove that STS is different from stress, I feel I am right and until someone proves me wrong I will think this way.
If a plant can change sex with any environmental stress I think it has genes for intersex, STS is different, it never happens in nature. STS being able to transform a female to male does not mean that the plant is carrying intersex genes, as far as I can tell. Environmental stress reveals plants with intersex genes. And I advise people not to use them if they want to breed better Cannabis hermi free.
I will, and I will continue to select away from undesirable traits in their progeny. And I will not be suprised to watch the trait become less frequent with each generation...If you think I am wrong then continue to breed with hermi intersexed plants.
But do not be suprised if your varieties have intersexed plants in their progeny.
Sounds like a good idea... a list should be compiled, and stress tested to verify... However, inter-sexed plants in their progeny would only indicate the presence of recessive genes for stress related hormone production... Be a fun project, though...If you are sure a female plant has no intersexed traits even with every type of environmental stress, use STS and make hermi free lines. But be sure both parents are hermi free under stress.
Maybe it is time to make a list of known clones that are TRUE FEMALES? Clones that have been around long enough to have been tested with every type of environmental stress and been proven to be hermi free? Or at least come up with a list of stresses that will bring out hermis, so people at home can test their own clones to see if they have a TRUE FEMALE or TRUE MALE. Then you could make a few lines that are TRUE and grow out a bunch and try and find intersexed plants in the progeny. Fast easy and almost science. But it will not show STS is different from stress, which is what you want.
-SamS
Grat3fulh3ad said:Excellent, so we really do agree, then... I'm not talking about using inter-sexed individuals for 1st generation crosses, but as a starting point for a project... And I am definately not talking about making 'feminised' seeds or any seeds using pollen from a stress reversal, just classic male/female crossing... I simply could not and cannot accept the statement that 100% of all inter-sexed plants are valueless in a breeding project. The main reason I differ here, is that ionic silver(which does exist in nature, and it is not unfeasible that a group of plants could be grown in an area with high natural silver deposits), has the exact same effect as silver thiosulfate (and it's not even poison). If you're going to call un-natural light cycles a natural environmental stress, then you have to call silver stress one as well. But it isn't science until it is proven, and my opinion or theory that the 'biological mechanics' of the various stress induced reversals are not very different is as valid as any other unproven but plausable theory. What ever the source of the stress, it is really the processes it induces that count, not the stress source.And I have a lot of respect for you for the work you've done, and the opinions you have... In fact I actually differ very little from you opinion wise, just one minor point which is really a small part of a greater whole... I agree science is not fast, and rarely is it cheap... even if the cost is not in money it is in work...Silver stress could very well indeed happen in nature. If the plant was not carrying a gene which allowed it to produce sex reversing hormones, how could STS work? Also, when you get to the reality of the situation... Even if you cannot stress a plant into reversing, there is still a possibility of it passing along a recessive gene and having inter-sexed progeny... Bottom line is, with out proof of the mechanisms which cause reversals and without a laboratory to test the genes of every plant to make sure they have no recessive traits and without facilities to grow out populations of hundreds of thousands, then breeding reversal proof (idiot proof) cannabis is a utopian pipe dream at best...I will, and I will continue to select away from undesirable traits in their progeny. And I will not be suprised to watch the trait become less frequent with each generation...
Sounds like a good idea... a list should be compiled, and stress tested to verify... However, inter-sexed plants in their progeny would only indicate the presence of recessive genes for stress related hormone production... Be a fun project, though...
Actually quite the opposite...wallyduck said:im trying to learn as i read along and keep my mind open ,, ive honestly seen no reason so far to change my stand on the hermie debate ...
as im sure we have all learnt in this tread there is no degree of hermaphradism , is a intersexed plant or its not ...
The questions I had were intended to illustrate a point, and help clarify things for any of us out here who may have thought there were clear cut answers... I do have alot of questions, which would all need to be answered to come to any conclusions about the theories presented here... After all without evidences they're just theories and any conclusions are jumped to, not drawn... In order to assert something as a fact, don't you think all the basic questions about said fact should be answerable?wallyduck said:wow u always write so much gratefulhad ,, hehe ,, i guess it means u have a lot of questions and an urge to have them answered .....
i guess thats the beauty of these forums, exchange of ideas , theories and results of tests youve conducted or have formulated ideas about through theory ...
I'd have to know that experiment was repeated quite a few times, and that a representative selection of the the progeny were properly stress tested for any small sign of a male sex organ, before that means anything significant. Just because something works a certain way once or twice does not make it a rule.Sam_Skunkman said:"We learned that we have no Idea what biological mechanisms are responsible for the varying types and degrees... We have learned that Silver stress is no different from any other stress, or maybe it might be..."
I do not believe this about STS. If you STS a TRUE FEMALE you do not get any intersexed progeny, I know because I did it.
You're right... a 'true male' or a 'true female' would be more like 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10,000... I mis-communicated what I meant... I meant a 'true male' and a 'true female' that are of 'elite' or 'keeper' quailty."We have learned that statisticly speaking, TRUE males and TRUE females that cannot be reversed by any stresses are very rare... On the order of one in 250000 to one in a million... That's like winning the lottery each time you find one... (wonder the odds on consecutive lottery wins...)"
Well I do not feel this is true. It is more like 1 in 1-10,000.
"Anyone who thinks there are no degrees of intersexuality hasn't learnt anything in this thread, except how to stick to faith even in the face of fact..."
The question to be asked is can the intersexuality be inherited? If yes then do not breed with it unless you clean it up first and make it TRUE. That is what I think is best.
-SamS
elRoachoGrande said:can anyone show a fem cannabis plant that will not reverse by STS?
the all will won't they.. each and every one of them, right?
Sam_Skunkman said:...
BTW, I have found a few plants that will not change even with STS, not sure what that means yet.
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-SamS
Grat3fulh3ad said: