Wally, HOW exactly are you defining 'hermie weed'?
great post, BTW Ralph...KingRalph said:ay definitely Tom, i do agree. wasn't postin that to prove or disprove anythin, just wanted to show it i wouldn't consider the plant at the point of doing that a hermaphrodite either. all plants have the survival mechanism we speak of that comes out as a hermaphroditic tendancy in times of duress, so to me, a hermaphrodite is one at the point of no return, so to speak. fooling around with my feminized seeds has clued me in a great deal to the different traits they can exhibit of these underlying hermaphrodite tendancies that seem to just be at a varying degree of recessiveness in all plants waiting to be brought out for survival.
so like you say Tom, i wouldn't consider any plant that does what my pic showed intersexed, as i mentioned, no pollen sacs were made during it's lifecycle. on other feminizeds it's mentioned that sometimes a single male pollen sac will sprout at the onset of flowering, but no more, only female flowers. i wouldn't call that intersexed. only when it's that, from the start male and female flower sprouting would i consider a plant a true hermaphrodite, from birth... intersexed dioecious of course that can happen later in flower too but usually only from stress... which i would call that a hermaphrodite, but not really technically, as a clone of that plant unstressed wouldn't revert to that if unstressed... but would easily, and so such a plant shouldn't be kept as it's too close to being a true hermaphrodite. neither should the true hermaphrodite of course.
personally, for making feminizeds i would not use a plant that is easily made to give male flowers, the more resilient to that trait the better an i think the stronger and less likely the feminizeds will be to changing then also, as the trait then seems to have a more recessive level. but i'm just a hack haha i'll keep listening to you fellas peace n green thumbs guys, an thanks for the info!
Obviously, just from the fact that I release only around one fifth of the crosses I make... and will continue to work a line untill I think it is ready to be released even though people are willing to pay for the intermediate steps... would seem to indicate that quality of product and my reputation are much more important than seed money... the money I make from seed sales is less than 10% of my income and not really a factor, or I'd have a dozen crosses listed up, eh?wallyduck said:keeep looking , id say ,, u want to make cash from the seeds , or truely make the strains worth growing ?????????????????
Very well said, Tom... and the entirety of my point.TomHill said:I have no love for them either & am still getting over the headache caused by a certain Malawi introduction into my neighborhood 20 years back. So, when folks come out strongly against I certainly understand where they're coming from. However I feel we must also be careful not to shoot ourselves in the foot as well.
Hypothetical situation:
We grow out 1000 Thai seeds & the top 10 regarding quality of smoke all have the ability to produce a few seeds on their own. What is the best course of action? Do we shitcan these individuals in favor of true females of lessor quality? Or, do we we accept their imperfections & try to deal with their undesirable traits further down the road? The easy answer is to do both or plant another thousand but this may also interfere with our other responsibilities etc, & in reality may not always be an option.
The Chem & Trainwreck lines are two good examples of plants that have the ability to make seeds on their own. I believe these are fixed & prepotent in their valuable traits for this very reason. Should we not cross breed them even though a bit of progeny testing would locate males that masked this undesirable trait?
My primary goal is to have & produce the best that i can & i feel it would be a big mistake not to keep an open mind regarding intersex plants of exceptional quality.
High&Lonesome said:***Special thanks go to orgogliodiprovi and chemdog who helped me straighten out the story and exact details. ***
Brief background:
At a Grateful Dead show at Deer Creek Amphitheatre, 'joebrand' (aka 'wonkanobe') and 'pbud' met 'chemdog' and sold him an ounce of very high quality pot for $500. joe and chemdog exchanged numbers and they later arranged for two ounces to be shipped to chemdog on the east coast. According to chemdog, one ounce was seedless and the other had 13 seeds.
• 'OG Kush' (the original cut) came from an s1 from in a bag of '91 Chemdawg in the Lake Tahoe area in 1996.
• 'Sour Diesel' aka ECSD came from an accidental cross of ('91 Chemdawg x Mass Super Skunk/NL)x DNL after the DNL hermed and seeded the room. The DNL's lineage is NL/Shiva x Hawaiian.