journeyquest
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It doesnt look like anyone offers a feminized chronic. Why is this? This seems to be a good overall strain.
Simon,at serious seeds has been working on other projects. Feminized seeds sre not a priority for him. Look for a new strain coming from him this fall.
I hope he never delves into fems.
Yes i actually have a lot of respect for this company that they didnt jump on the fem bandwagon.
Unfortunately i read somewhere on icmag that they supposedly plan to release fem seeds too. The market demands it...
i dont honestly believe that statement that feminized seeds are lower quality than regular seeds. what evidence do you have to back that up?
I am of the firm opinion that those who throw rocks at femminized seeds are going by emotional conclusions alone, and don't really have anything scientific to back up their arguments.
There is as much chance of providing hermie prone seeds using the regular method as there is by forcing a fem to produce male flowers and pollen and breeding that way.
A female that is true breeding and does not carry the hermie trait will not produce male flowers with simple stress techniques like light manipulation...it must be chemically stressed for it to produce the pollen.
I am also of the belief that if a breeder is using two separate females that are both true breeding for the hermie trait, he is producing seeds that are far more likely to be non-hermie than if he used a male. Unless a breeder has gone through years of painstaking selection for a true breeding male, his chances of introducing a latent hermie gene are far greater than when he used the two true breeding fems.
IMO, stones are more warranted thrown at those who do not choose males as painstakingly as they choose females. And also those who chuck at a nice pheno without the consideration if it should be used for breeding or not.
No, there is no more chance of selfed seeds being hermie than regular seeds have.
Femminized seeds being a bad deal is only in the minds of those who really don't know what proper breeding is all about.
Now, here comes the rain from those who consider themselves experts, but continuously throw stones at femminized seeds. (shrug) oh well....
Of course there is a "genetical" difference, XX vs XY.
The hermie trait is brought about by selection (or non-selection if you will). This doesn't matter if we are using females and males, or just females.
I am also with SamS that there may well be some genetic material that is carried by males only that we may be missing out on when we stress a female for our pollen. But, that is nothing more than speculation from the learned. It is not a case in fact. And SamS will say the same thing, I'm certain.
Evidence that is right in front of us says that not using the true male is not a problem, but it takes research to know for certain all the ins and outs of the procedure.
Consider this...what if the hermie trait is mainly carried by the male of the species? If this is truly the case (and it's very likely to hold some truth) then chosing true breeding females exclusively for breeding could help to eliminate hermie from the gene pool.
Now that man has control of cannabis, ridding the hermie trait is a good thing...for man...
If it weren't for the hermie trait, I suspect we would have FAR fewer variety of cannabis on the planet.
As it is, cannabis is one of the most self-sustaining plants there are..and it's the hermie trait that must take credit.
Now, here comes the rain from those who consider themselves experts, but continuously throw stones at femminized seeds. (shrug) oh well....
If you want to pursue this at that angle, then let me reply by saying that I highly doubt you can show me even one thread that describes a person having a higher rate of hermies when growing a fem strain vs a regular strain. Now, this would have to be a controlled or semi controlled situation, and be the breeder's/seed creator's info, not the info from a grower of someone else's seeds.well i just repeated what i read and didnt creat any kind of theories on my own - and i have read many times from diffrent people that the numbers of herms looking at fem. seeds is a lot higher than it was when they grew regular seeds -this leads me to the conclusion that fem. seeds have a higher hermie count as regular seeds ... im not throwing the stones - im just telling the storie of stones already thrown
Oh really? I suggest you do some reading up on selective breeding. Work on your math as well, because it will all boil down to math and statistics in the end.you are building up theories which have no evidence at all
Heard? That is definitely a term used by rumor mill aficionados, and internet Dr's. Again...if you research selective breeding, instead of using what you read (hear) on some website, you will agree that what I am saying is true...once you understand the subject matter.- never heard of a lower herm count looking of a fem. seed generation! i mean it sounds interessting and maybe even true but dont tell me:
The only think I am trying to prove, is that folks who warn about the problems that using stressed females for male pollen bring about a high rate of hermies, are passing along bad info that is constructed more from emotions and hearsay, than by scientific facts.if you could proove this