I am not a breeder, but I think that any of us would choose "true female" if the plants are same quality.Sam_Skunkman said:If you had a choice between a intersexed and true female of the same line and they were the same quality which would you choose to breed with?
I think there is a whole lot of true behind this suggestion, but it doesnt explain all.Sam_Skunkman said:I suggest that most breeders just don't use enough plants to find TRUE FEMALES and so they settle for the best they can find with limited numbers, and if the plant is intersexed they use it anyway, not because it is really the best, but rather because they can not grow enough plants to find what they really want, quality and intersexed free.
But something to thing for is why is it, that many thai´s, vietnamese´s, zamal´s etc. have hermie/intersex trait´s? Is it because the poor selection of a man that continued hundreds of years, or has it something to do with their geographical location. I cannot believe that other traditional cannabis growing regions had better knowledge considering intersex plants/hermies than example thai´s had. + It seems, that these "traditionally" intersex strains are usually sativa´s, not indica´s, so I really think that the environment/geographical location/cultivar subspecie has a lot to do with the intersex trait!Sam_Skunkman said:Tom, do you understand that man created the hermi problems in the first place by using intersexed plants and by not using intersexed plants will fix the problems? No need to hunt them all down and kill them all off. Just don't breed with them, they are a mistake.
Man has allowed intersexed plants to proliferate, it is up to man to fix the problem.
Farmer John said:Well, our OHxSk#1 throws nanners if we do something that it doesnt like but it doesnt always do it, and that pollen is very viable, its just so damn good that its no problem to pick those nanners off the buds and so what if it has a few seeds if it is more potent than anything else i nthe garden. some plants just are too good to throw away.
yet the only evidence you offer, is that you imagine how the early canna farmers did their breeding.... Could you offer any other sort of evidence, other than assuming ancient man's breeding practices? I would also love a better explanation why Chemically stressing a plant into producing hormones which make it grow intersexed flowers, is any different then stressing a plant into prodicing the hormones which cause it to grow intersexed flowers by another method. I understand how it appears different on the surface, but would you please explain the major differences in the biological process?"man has allowed intersexed plants, and it's up to man to fix the problem..."
I have also see higher rates of hermis from poorly bred crops like from Africa where they are not growing sinsi.
That has been something I have wanted to discuss, that hormone production can easily turn a plant which is chromosomally pure XY into an inter-sexed plant.cannabis will be found to be classical XY or maybe hormones that affect the sexual expression of the XY
No-one ever implied that hermies had to be potent, or that potent plants had to be hermie. You must have misread me if you got that impression.Sam_Skunkman said:BTW,
Anyone that thinks that hermi plants are all potent just needs to work with French hemp. It is monecious, all the plants are intersexed and they are not potent at all.
Intersexed plants should be removed and not used for breeding of drug Cannabis.
The choice is simple, you can be part of the problem or part of the solution. I say do not breed with hermi plants, you can decide what is best. Not what is easiest.
-SamS
Is this all you're trying to say Sam? Because I've never disagreed with that... I'm just saying that you shouldn't rule a super-potent plant out simply because it makes a male flower under certain stresses.wallyduck said:i think sam is just saying that just cause some of the lines around now days are potent , and also intersexed dont mean u should breed with them ..
Please send me seeds that won't reverse under stress... I'd really like to test that statement out... Anyone... If I find a plant potent enough to be added to my keeper list, and can't stress it into showing a male flower, I'll never say another word on the topic.is same as what i said earlier , just better put ..
i would not allow intersexed plants to be bred with and offer them to others , its just irresponsible .... its how we got in the mess in the first place ...
ive seen many plants grow and never show a sign of hermie , by themselves ,, stressed as u like , no hermie , theyre the ones to keep...