Bubblegum bought in Amsterdam

[TGT]

My wife while visiting Amsterdam bought me a pack of feminized Bubblegum seeds. It was a pack of 5 and she purchased it from a store called "Magic Mushroom". The man she said was extremely helpful and she stated what I was looking for. He swore up and down that this was his favorite strain and he had been growing it for years. My wife is good at reading people and she felt a good vibe from him, so she purchased what he thought was the best.

When I got them I was a little disapointed because it was not by a breeder I recognized. The packaging was nice, but it stated on the pack "by Full Moon Seeds". I was just wondering if the odds of getting what I want are good.

Also, is there a lot of stores in Amsterdam that are known for packaging seeds that are inferior and ripping people off? Like I said, my wife is good at reading people and she got nothing but good vibes. I know it sounds weird, but I believe her - she has always been right other times. Just I have never heard of Full Moon Seeds before.

Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Anyways, I am going to start them and keep this thread going when there is something to see. Thanks in advance.

TGT

 

[wayfarer]

Wish you would of bumped your other post on this subject. I remembered a similar story and fiddled with the screwy search engine just to find it was you who had posted it.

Looks like Full Moon is a coffee shop. http://www.coffeeshop.freeuk.com/Fullmoon.html The logo says magic mushroom, so it probably where your wife got them.

My guess is the seeds will be fine. Grow them out and let us know how they turn out.

 

[statusquo]

They'll be ok. Shame about the feminized genetics, though. (IMO). Just finished Adam's T.H.Seeds Bubblegum outdoors and loved it. Strong hybrid with a narcotic feel and had you thinking with an intriguing cerebral component. Phenos ranged from a chem smelling pheno to a sweet smelling pheno - all of them smelled very strongly in a good way. All were potent and many were resinous. Good call on the bubblegum Short flowering, great for indoors, capable of producing top shelf bud (grower dependent).

 

[TGT]

Thanks for the response. Actually I did post a thread as you found out, I thought I put it on another board. Sorry to repost it - didn't mean too.

Another question, is growing from feminized seeds the same as growing from regular seed? I mean, do you grow out the seeds and still pick the best female for clones, or are feminized mostly the same? Also, are they more prone to turn hermaphrodite? Just curious, because it seems everyone I tell about these seeds says its a shame they came femanized. I have a lot of experience growing from clones collected from friends, but not much from seed.

TGT

 

[statusquo]

Some people make them work however some people also experience hermi problems and poor quality it seems. Cloning the best one would still be the same. I don't have direct personal experience but it seems like fem genes tend to be less diverse but don't quote me on that.

 

[Baba Ku]

Fem genes are a bit less diverse only in the fact that no males will be produced.
Other than that, there is no genetic difference at the time of meiosis, and the plant has no idea if it was a full on male that produced the pollen, or a reversed female.

Hermie problems arise from fem seeds the exact same way they do with regular seeds. It is ALL about the selection of the parental stock, and nothing more.

The myth about fems being more hermie prone comes about from how some of the fem seeds are come about. If a breeder uses the pollen from a female that displayed the intersex gene after very little or no stress, then they used an inferior plant for a parent. It only stands to reason that a hermie prone parent would have a high likelihood of producing hermie prone progeny.
A parent that has been selected after undergoing testing to evaluate it's worth as a breeding plant, will produce progeny that also display similar traits and worth.

And it is much easier to evaluate a flowering female than it is a male. And since it takes a whole lot more to find a true breeding male than it does a true breeding female, it is more likely that we will see hermie prone plants coming from regular seeds, than from fem stock.

 

[TGT]

Thank you Baba Ku, you explained everything perfectly so no need to worry anymore. Thanks a million.

TGT