Newbie question about pollinating a feminized plant.

[Deadphish1965]

I was wondering if you can pollinate a feminized plant? Will the seeds you get from it Hermie a lot? I apologize if this has been asked a lot. I'm new and I'm still figuring out the search functions. I can't seem to pm anyone either.

 

[JohnKimble]

I was wondering if you can pollinate a feminized plant?

Yes you definitely can.

Will the seeds you get from it Hermie a lot?

Well there is two types of feminized seeds. Natural and unnatural. You don't want natural ones, they are seeds from hermies. Unnatural ones are made by spraying chemical on the female plant which changes it hormones making it produce pollen sacks. So its not a genetic predisposition of the plant to do it, but man made. Feminized seeds you buy from seed banks should be unnatural. Ones you get outta bagseed are probably natural feminized hermies.

 

[biologic]

Don't do it!

 

[MJPassion]

I was wondering if you can pollinate a feminized plant?
YES

Will the seeds you get from it Hermie a lot?
Not necessarily. It depends on the particular plant being reversed (genes) & environmental conditions

I apologize if this has been asked a lot. I'm new and I'm still figuring out the search functions. I can't seem to pm anyone either.

You need 50 posts to use the PM feature.

 

[Fly by Night]

Of course it's a lot of fun to cross a feminized plant.

Awfully early on a Monday to be sexing...perhaps later over a glass of wine

 

[Deadphish1965]

Thanks guys, whenever I do it I want seeds so I guess I'll stay away from feminized seeds. Why do some breeders only offer feminized seeds? If more people feminize their seeds wouldn't it eventually ruin any decent breeding?

 

[Adze]

Dp,

Do some reading here. I think you'll find that genetics in feminized seed are as good as the plants used to create them. Inbreeding plants with inter-sexed traits results in more plants with those traits regardless of whether they are feminized or regular crosses.

 

[Deadphish1965]

Dp,

Do some reading here. I think you'll find that genetics in feminized seed are as good as the plants used create them. Inbreeding plants with inter-sexed traits results in more plants with those traits regardless of whether they are feminized or regular crosses.

Thanks

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

yep , some of my better beans were from a pollinated fem plant i picked out . i,ve tested them inside out. not an issue ever . stable as .

but if you were going to do it . i think i,d find a decent breeder/ strain to use .

 

[JohnKimble]

Why do some breeders only offer feminized seeds?

Well the reason I believe is a feminized seed has the greatest chance of being like the plant they are trying to sell you. When you buy a feminized seed of say some great genetics that won a cannabis cup or something. It actually won't be 100% like the plant, but pretty close. But if you buy many of them , grow them all then pheno hunt you have a good chance finding something really great.Then from there you would clone it. If they gave out regular seeds, it would contain the genetics of the male plant making it extremely more difficult to find the phenotype you purchased. Of course though, with breeding over probably many years, a phenotype can be stablized with back crossing and they could offer regular seeds for it. But that takes a lot of work...

 

[MJPassion]

Here's something for yall to read.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=309983

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

thanks MJ , good read i,ve read it before aswell . every time i read something from chimera it reminds me i need to get his god dam beans and grow them . very switched on guy .