I didn't vote...
I would guess nothing happens but have the hope something still does. I was also thinking about doubled haploids which are, in a few cases, obtained by pollinating the species to 'fully inbreed in one go' with another more or less closely related one that does trigger a pollination response without properly fertilising the female gamete (aka wide breeding) or alternatively semi-viable pollen. In most cases, the embryo obtained in such a way has to be rescued.
Regarding Kaly Seeds: From what I read from and about him, he's a cocky but not very bright pseudo-scientist with a temper... Anyway, the things he did might have resulted in the formation of doubled haploid cannabis plants which would explain why, according to people who grew mainly his older varieties, so many plants were cripples. Also, it might be how he obtained the webbing. Not a mutation caused by the process but merely a genotype become phenotype. Webbing is a recessive mutation (a SNP IIRC) which is quite frequent in cannabis/hemp.
I don't know why Kaly used Japanese hops, maybe because the flowers don't look too much like hops nor hemp and hence are a nice marketing tool to imply a successful creation of a inter-genera hybrid? Stupid thing is, Japanese hops not only has less chromosomes than cannabis but also males with one X and two different Y chromosomes. The chance of doubled haploid formation might be better or worse with this species, only trials can tell, but a normal hybrid which is fertile and can readily be crossed back to the cannabis parent is very-very unlikely.
On the other hand, using common hops Humulus lupulus seems like a good approach because both contain 2n=20 and the same XY sex chromosome system.
This has been published for example HERE but also elsewhere (too lazy to look it up).
I would guess nothing happens but have the hope something still does. I was also thinking about doubled haploids which are, in a few cases, obtained by pollinating the species to 'fully inbreed in one go' with another more or less closely related one that does trigger a pollination response without properly fertilising the female gamete (aka wide breeding) or alternatively semi-viable pollen. In most cases, the embryo obtained in such a way has to be rescued.
Regarding Kaly Seeds: From what I read from and about him, he's a cocky but not very bright pseudo-scientist with a temper... Anyway, the things he did might have resulted in the formation of doubled haploid cannabis plants which would explain why, according to people who grew mainly his older varieties, so many plants were cripples. Also, it might be how he obtained the webbing. Not a mutation caused by the process but merely a genotype become phenotype. Webbing is a recessive mutation (a SNP IIRC) which is quite frequent in cannabis/hemp.
I don't know why Kaly used Japanese hops, maybe because the flowers don't look too much like hops nor hemp and hence are a nice marketing tool to imply a successful creation of a inter-genera hybrid? Stupid thing is, Japanese hops not only has less chromosomes than cannabis but also males with one X and two different Y chromosomes. The chance of doubled haploid formation might be better or worse with this species, only trials can tell, but a normal hybrid which is fertile and can readily be crossed back to the cannabis parent is very-very unlikely.
On the other hand, using common hops Humulus lupulus seems like a good approach because both contain 2n=20 and the same XY sex chromosome system.
This has been published for example HERE but also elsewhere (too lazy to look it up).
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