Does gender matter by strain?

[ghost2102002]

I was wondering if I'm planning to combine 2 separate strains does it matter which strain is the male and which is the female. I know obviously that each time you breed two plants your going to get somthing a little different, but do the females take more after the mother plant and males more after the father. Can I expect completely different results by swapping which strain is the male and which is female? Does one gender always pass on more traits?

 

[Phytoplankton]

I was wondering if I'm planning to combine 2 separate strains does it matter which strain is the male and which is the female. I know obviously that each time you breed two plants your going to get somthing a little different, but do the females take more after the mother plant and males more after the father. Can I expect completely different results by swapping which strain is the male and which is female? Does one gender always pass on more traits?

It makes no difference, each parent contibutes 50%.

 

[ghost2102002]

It makes no difference, each parent contibutes 50%.

Do you have any experience combining two females by reversing the gender of one? Do you recommend against it

 

[Farmer's Hat]

Do you have any experience combining two females by reversing the gender of one? Do you recommend against it

Many growers have done this. Its still a form of crossbreeding, however you will end up with feminized seeds. How stable the cross turns out depends largely on the genetics of the two individual strains that were crossed.

 

[Phytoplankton]

Do you have any experience combining two females by reversing the gender of one? Do you recommend against it

Never done it, but you’ll get less variation by breeding the plant to itself.

 

[ghost2102002]

Never done it, but you’ll get less variation by breeding the plant to itself.

I would not be going to self but from two females from differnt strains and continuing to do that with their children until I got somthing stable

 

[Farmer's Hat]

I would not be going to self but from two females from differnt strains and continuing to do that with their children until I got somthing stable

Your odds for creating a stable strain increases if you use male and female plants. It is my understanding that breeding with only females increases the odds of a strain having an unstable hermaphrodite trait in the gene pool.

 

[ghost2102002]

Your odds for creating a stable strain increases if you use male and female plants. It is my understanding that breeding with only females increases the odds of a strain having an unstable hermaphrodite trait in the gene pool.

I was aware of this however I have a female plant of a genetic I'm not supposed to have and what I'm looking to cross it with only comes female

 

[Farmer's Hat]

I was aware of this however I have a female plant of a genetic I'm not supposed to have and what I'm looking to cross it with only comes female

I understand. You should continue with your plan and share your results with all of us.

 

[conor c]

I was wondering if I'm planning to combine 2 separate strains does it matter which strain is the male and which is the female. I know obviously that each time you breed two plants your going to get somthing a little different, but do the females take more after the mother plant and males more after the father. Can I expect completely different results by swapping which strain is the male and which is female? Does one gender always pass on more traits?

That's a debate right there some breeders say makes no difference others say doing it a set way makes a difference imo as far as cannabis is concerned males matters they contribute slightly more on a genetic level than females so there very important might even be more so than the females tbh

 

[conor c]

Your odds for creating a stable strain increases if you use male and female plants. It is my understanding that breeding with only females increases the odds of a strain having an unstable hermaphrodite trait in the gene pool.

It will if she ain't stable and firm not so if the parents are solid and firm sex wise however it can increase the amount of females to males ratio wise in a line actually s1s can be used as a shortcut to fix intersex in a line especially if you have limited numbers and don't wanna outcross you can make s1s stress test em kill what don't make the grade and use the ones that are solid sex wise to help improve your chances CSI or one of the guys who do this alot could explain it better than me but that's the jist of it

 

[amneziaHaze]

Doesnt matter babies will take dominant genes.usually 1 in 4 seeds will take the non dominant genes.to get a stable strain you need to breed your seed with the mom that will repeat moms genes after a few repeats you should get constant results but there is allsoo a chance for mutations and weaker strains

 

[GreenNotYellow]

Does not really matter but if it's just male-female then most of the seeds will differ. If you want a stable crossbreed you need two females and one of them hermied most likely

 

[ghost2102002]

Thank you all for you inputs I will post an update at a later point in time but this is a slow process

 

[Funkentelechy]

In biology, there are usually sex-linked genes carried by one gender or the other. These are genes, that are linked to the Y or X chromosome of a dioecious species, whose primary role is not related to sex development itself but contributes to other traits.
I don't know why Cannabis would be any different.

 

[Farmer's Hat]

It will if she ain't stable and firm not so if the parents are solid and firm sex wise however it can increase the amount of females to males ratio wise in a line actually s1s can be used as a shortcut to fix intersex in a line especially if you have limited numbers and don't wanna outcross you can make s1s stress test em kill what don't make the grade and use the ones that are solid sex wise to help improve your chances CSI or one of the guys who do this alot could explain it better than me but that's the jist of it

Makes a lot of sense. I imagine stress testing plants is a mandatory practice for serious breeders.
I will experiment with female to female crosses. Should be interesting and informative.
Ive made feminized seeds once, in like 2012! It never really appealed to me. However, times are different. Feminized seeds are very practical for the small home grower.

 

[MtRainDog]

I was aware of this however I have a female plant of a genetic I'm not supposed to have and what I'm looking to cross it with only comes female

What do you mean by you're not supposed to have a female plant of a genetic? Is someone gonna come and break your legs for having it?

 

[ghost2102002]

What do you mean by you're not supposed to have a female plant of a genetic? Is someone gonna come and break your legs for having it?

Unreleased to the public it is only grown in production to sell I got lucky had a single seed in some dispo bud and it popped and was also female