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Feminized seeds - Using female pollen to create hybrids

exvitel

New member
When using collidal silver to make feminized pollen, will the pollen from Strain A make a feminized hybrid seed if put on Strain B?
I only have females, and would love to make a hybrid between a few of the strains I have. I assume it would work just fine, but everything I have read about making feminized seeds talks about feminizing the same strain the pollen came from.
Sorry if it seems amateurish, but I dont want to waste my time and energy.
Thanks ICMag!
 

Jhhnn

Active member
Veteran
It's the only way to create crosses between clone only varieties, of which there are more than a few.
 
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sirius haze

good question, at least you will have to make progeny testing of each cross to make sure deleterious alleles like intersexuality are not passed to the progeny and its far from won i think.

an interesting idea will be to make a "stress test" to your selected females clones and see if you find one who dont reverse under "natural stress" , this one will only reverse under chemical products and will be a very good candidate to bred with both female and pollen from the reversing.

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]STRESS TO MAKE FEMALES EXPRESS INTERSEXED FLOWERS[/FONT]
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=99883
 

exvitel

New member
Awesome. Would it matter which strain I made the gave the pollen to? As in if I used pollen from A to pollinate B, would that produce the same hybrid as if I pollinated A with B? I know there will be a variety of phenotypes in the offspring, but would the it be the same either way?
I know I read breeders saying they use whatever male and whatever female to make a hybrid, but I always wondered if it would make the same hybrid the other way around.
Thanks for your responses guys! I'm not new to growing, just to breeding
 
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sirius haze

Awesome. Would it matter which strain I made the gave the pollen to? As in if I used pollen from A to pollinate B, would that produce the same hybrid as if I pollinated A with B? I know there will be a variety of phenotypes in the offspring, but would the it be the same either way?
I know I read breeders saying they use whatever male and whatever female to make a hybrid, but I always wondered if it would make the same hybrid the other way around.
Thanks for your responses guys! I'm not new to growing, just to breeding

you will have to experiment both crosses AxB and BxA to find the "truth" but no matter the result will be i don't think we can generalize the conclusion to all crosses.

it will matter how much your clones are homozygous or heterozygous. making S1 of your females clones and growing the progeny will tell you what is hidden behind the dominance and will show you which clones is/are the more stable.

about breeders saying they use whatever male and female to make an hybrid, well in fact its the opposite, being from two different species, subspecies or cultivars, REAL breeders choose their parents very carefully both females and males and progeny test them to know which matings perform the best and will be the more successfull.
 

exvitel

New member
I've had all of my strains for about 5 years, and all but 2 of them are pretty stable. I have only seen bananas on my "OG Kush" even with all of the stress I've put them through when learning, so I think any of them would be good choices.
I can't confirm a few of the strains, and don't know what seed companies they would be from. I was told they were from a private hobby breeder in my state, so some are probably "name brand" and some created.
I have:
OG Kush
Norther Lights Blueberry #5
Afghan Dreams #3
Juicy Fruit
AK-47

OG Kush (also came with the nickname "Purple Craze")
-mediumish production, about doubles in height, christmas tree style, only one I've seen with bananas, but not in the last few years

Norther Lights Blueberry #5 (I assume NL #5 x Blueberry, supposedly a hybrid he made)
-medium to medium high production, bushy, lots of tight knit branching, 130-150% stretch, amazing blueberry smell and taste, best resin production

Afghan Dreams #3 (looks like a cousin of the NLBB#5, hard to tell them apart)
-same as NLBB, but little less resin production and taste is like hashy bubblegum/cotton candy

Juicy Fruit (either his own creation or Fruity Juice)
-high production, side branching stretches well, 200-250% stretch, big fat sativaish leaves, smells amd taste just like juicy fruit gum

AK-47 (new cutting, still learning)
-medium production, lanky and stretchy around 250%, tight small buds

All finish in 7-8 weeks

I was thinking of JF x NLBB to increase NLBB production and increase the resin content of JF while making a nice fruit cocktail smell and taste. Also JF x AD #3 to increase production and add that strong Afghan hash taste to the JF. Finally a AD #3 x OG Kush for a deep, hashy, ancient incense smell and taste.
 

exvitel

New member
Mainly I want to stretch the AD and NLBB so they aren't so stocky and so I don't have to veg for so long, while increasing production. The JF is definitely the most hardy and stable with the traits I desire.
What do you think guys? :)
 
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