Hey all,
i decided to cross Sensi seeds BIG BUD regular seeds with several of my strains that i have running
3 out of 10 seeds were male so i put this 3 males into flower. Plan was to use the best male to breed with.
i first began to flower the male after clear indication of sex, all was going well at week 4 bloom the males were showing good amount of pollen production and no signs of female pistils.
SO I decided to pollinate my Channel with the big bud at week 4 male bloom and week 4 female bloom in another room (lets say grow tent 1) The Channel female has gone onto produce some good seed stock.
Now here lies the problem.
i went away for 1 week at week 6 bloom ..my pump failed and it caused the coco to dry up somewhat and stress the males out
and with it along came signs of female pistils in ALL 3 male big buds at week 7. However not one of the females which i was breeding with showed any signs of stress nor did they show hermaphroditism
My questions are:
Even though i pollinated tent 1 at the early stage of bloom (week 4) where no female pistils had exhibited on the male
what would be the viability of the offspring TENT 1 (Big bud x Channel) have of showing male and female signs or will this gene fault carry through and all offspring be hermie?
Is is right to assume hermaphroditism will always pass on as a gene no maitter when the male plant exhibits it?
Yes i could grow out the seeds in a few months but i just thought id ask to see if it worth my time or start again. I had taken a clone off all the Big bud males which are labelled and now on idle until i work out what to do.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
watts up
i decided to cross Sensi seeds BIG BUD regular seeds with several of my strains that i have running
3 out of 10 seeds were male so i put this 3 males into flower. Plan was to use the best male to breed with.
i first began to flower the male after clear indication of sex, all was going well at week 4 bloom the males were showing good amount of pollen production and no signs of female pistils.
SO I decided to pollinate my Channel with the big bud at week 4 male bloom and week 4 female bloom in another room (lets say grow tent 1) The Channel female has gone onto produce some good seed stock.
Now here lies the problem.
i went away for 1 week at week 6 bloom ..my pump failed and it caused the coco to dry up somewhat and stress the males out
and with it along came signs of female pistils in ALL 3 male big buds at week 7. However not one of the females which i was breeding with showed any signs of stress nor did they show hermaphroditism
My questions are:
Even though i pollinated tent 1 at the early stage of bloom (week 4) where no female pistils had exhibited on the male
what would be the viability of the offspring TENT 1 (Big bud x Channel) have of showing male and female signs or will this gene fault carry through and all offspring be hermie?
Is is right to assume hermaphroditism will always pass on as a gene no maitter when the male plant exhibits it?
Yes i could grow out the seeds in a few months but i just thought id ask to see if it worth my time or start again. I had taken a clone off all the Big bud males which are labelled and now on idle until i work out what to do.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
watts up