Ive seen some very good pheno's/plants from autoflowering strains and everytime i see one I can't help but to want to try and learn to self the plant in an attempt to capture the pheno. From my perspective, a femmed autoflowerer is the pentacle of cannabis breeding and cannabis development and am just dying to try it.

Any trailblazers out there? What is to be the outcome? What are the pitfalls?

[Greens]

Onamission feminized my autoflower select line of Guerilla Gold. I never grew them out this year, but according to him, they are awesome frosty plants with nice potency and a very early finish. The fact that they are all female is just awesome for guerilla growers too!

I've been getting numerous requests to fem the GG myself, but I haven't gotten around to it. I don't have an indoor grow at the moment, so it will at least have to wait until next summer. It would be the first time for me to make femmed beans, so it would be a bit of an experiment.

Greens

im thinking of trying it out, it would be good for production and guerilla farmers

I don't work with autoflowerers, nor have I ever selfed anything on purpose.

How quickly can you make make male flowers appear on a female plant?

It seems like it would be kinda hard to get the timing perfect if it takes a few weeks to get a plant to hermi...

[johnyhash]

Hey silver back your on the ball. I am sure you could make this happen by whatever means you choose. I have thought about this a lot. I wonder if its possible for crops to become largely pollenated if a fem goes hermi? I have never had a hermie outside so its not a huge concern but it is something that should be considered for large plots. I dont think it would happen, what do all you experts think?

[psilopod]

This is definitely where it's at silverback. They're small, discreet, and as soon as you fem. them they become efficient as well. I'm quite sure that if you treat the auto w/ a gibberelic acid solution early in flower that it'll throw some bananas plenty in time, and if not, save the pollen for next round, autos are fast

My experience has also been quite positive w/ feminised seeds outdoors as I have never had one go hermi on me. With that being said they will sometimes display hermi traits in higher stress indoor environments, but that goes w/o saying.

I have experience doing a fem. seed run once and you can definitely get your whole crop seeded quite effectively with relatively few hermi's. I'd guess to say that one or two good hermi's would do your whole crop in nicely(if there ever was such a thing).

If any of you guys are interested I'm going to be doing a bunch of breeding runs this winter as I setup 2-3 new flower locations. Atleast one will be operational in the near future. If you guys have any genetics that you'd like tested out or worked on, I'm more than willing and I will have more than enough space once things get going. Regardless I'll let you guys know how things are going as they progress and I'll be getting a digital camera as well so that will make things more interesting for sure.

[THRIPS AHOY!]

Wicked idea.I ordered some diselryder ahwile back with the intention of doing a seed run. It never even crossed my mind to self them.Seeds never showed up anyways so that idea is shit.I have checked out that guerilla gold by greens there it looks really nice for an auto.Keep up the good work and keep the ideas coming.Nice thinkin silver.

Do a thread on it psilopod, we'll all follow along.
Good questio Mexi

Ive been wearing my thinkin cap lately Johnny/Thrips

Greens, several of the crosses Ive seen of GG are resin coated and early as hell. Potent and early just happen to be the 2 primary requirements of every single outdoor grower in the world living north of the 30th parallel.
Potent, early and female is surely the dream of every outdoor grower.

Brad, you could revolutionize the seed world.If you ever fem that CongoX GG, I want to be the first customer. With a femmed auto ,at my lat, I could grow 2 crops per season,1 I harvest in early Aug and the other mid oct. It would illiminate the need to find a female and begin cloning and hardening off and all of that work. Just plant the seeds and wait for 3 months. BUDS!

I havent really grown any of the true autoflowerers but the category's of "auto" and " Photoperiod sensitive" is sometimes confusing to me. Of the strains Ive bought or seen someone else grow, my sense is that out of a pack of seeds, about 1/4 of the plants flower quickly, like in July and august, while the rest of the plants finish early Sept. Its that July/ August plant that Im after.

Do you think the ratio of Auto's appearance would increase from the 1/4% it seems to be now to the condition that all of the plants would be flowering in July?

[wisco61]

Just yesterday I started 5 joint doc AK47xLR2 fem seeds. I have some silver wire en route to make collodial silver to try and hermie them. I'm hoping to make a boatload of seeds for next year outdoor. I'll keep you all updated.

Good luck wisco, keep us posted.