stickshift
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sounds shite, this thread has gone from education to a wank off..... @weird you're just a fucking moron.
sounds shite, this thread has gone from education to a wank off..... @weird you're just a fucking moron.
money talks and bullshit walks ! the bottom line is RESULTS....
this thred remids me blind alegence "jim jones" i mean stickshift
abc is easy as 123, cut the bullshit and lets take to the the lab....
real results from tom and wierd is what i want, i am solid in
my opion but without the results, i just don't know ?
i personally think the results would be stark in comparrison
if not shocking ! i am talking about ratios and % ie "lab",IC pics
stickshift stay off the koolaid dude !
Why, is there really any doubt that peoples selections will improve by taking advantage of the known maths/science? Is there really any doubt that dissenting opinions on that are just people defending their current ignorance on the matter, and/or making excuses to get out of furthering their education of the subject?
HitH, yes I'll get around to it one of these days, but my plate is filled with many other projects currently, and the regeneration of that stock is not due for a couple years yet. In the meantime, I do believe there's a few guys that still have stock on the boards etc. Poke around some if you're into it. -T
Oh come on guys I would just use marker assisted tech etc and smoke him to pieces, and he would just use his newly acquired knowledge of genotyping via selfing etc, and finally get somewhere. Btw, is it cool if the "seed" I send in look like frog eggs?
btw the stuff i posted bred in the 90s was selfed before the internet and i learned about it by reading mel frank not you or a geneticist/scientist
let me guess you taught mel frank so you'll be right in the end anyway
but that was it!18.3 Producing Female Seeds
If it were possible to know which seeds are female and which are male, marijuana growing would be even simpler than
it is. There is not practical way to discern the gender of a seed - but there is a simpler procedure for producing seeds
that will all grow into female plants.
To produce female seeds, the plants are fertilised with pollen with male flowers that appear on a basically female plant.
Such flowers appear on intersexes, reversed females, and hermaphrodites (see section 17). Female plants have an XX
complement of sex chromosomes; therefore, the pollen from the male flowers that form on female plants can only carry
an X chromosome. All seeds produced from flowers fertilised with this "female" pollen will thus have an XX pair of sex
chromosomes, which is the female genotype.
Although the male Cannabis plant can produce female flowers, it cannot produce seed; so there is no chance of
mistakenly producing seed on a male plant. It is possible to use pollen from an intersexual plant that is basically male
(XY); the resulting crop of seeds will have the normal 1:1 ratio of males to females. For this reason, choose a plant that
is distinctly female as a pollen source. A female plant with a few random male-flower clusters, or a female plant that has
reversed sex are both good pollen sources. The seed bearer can be any female, female intersex, or reversed-female
plant.
In most crops, careful inspection of all the females usually reveals a few male flowers. And often, when females are left
flowering for an extended period of time, some male flowers will develop. If no male flowers form, you can help to
induce male flowers on female plants by severe pruning. One such procedure is to take the bulk of the harvest, but to
leave behind some green leaves to maintain growth (as described in the section on "Double Harvests" in section 20).
Most of the plants will continue to form female flowers, but male flowers are also likely to form. At times, the plants may
not grow particularly well, and may in fact form distorted and twisted leaves, but they will produce viable seeds as long
as some stigmas were white when pollinated. (Remember, it only takes a few fertile buds to produce hundreds of
seeds.) Pollinate the female flowers by hand as soon as pollen becomes available.
{Figure 82. A solitary male flower on a female plant provides "female"
pollen. (Also see Figure 84 for a female reversing sex.)}
{Figure 83. Growth may not be vigorous, but seeds will form if stigmas are
white when pollinated.}
Under artificial lights, turn the light cycle down to eight hours after cutting the plants back. The short cycle helps to
induce male flowers on female plants.
Male-free seed can also be produced by pollen from a natural hermaphrodites. The progeny, however, may inherit the
hermaphroditic trait, resulting in a crop with some hermaphrodites as well as females. This could be a problem if you
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THE MARIJUANA GROWER'S GUIDE..........by Mel Frank & Ed Rosenthal