this is plagerized from the March 2007 edition of High Times.
call me stoned.....well i am high. you got me there.
Jorge's Rx (pg 98 - 99)
Making feminized seeds.
How do i produce all female seeds when breeding male and female plants?
cheryl - Via Internet
Dear Cheryl,
I spoke to expert breeder Chimera from Chimera Seeds to get a detailed answer to your question. His explanation was unparalleled! Here it is:
Some growers intentionaly use the pollen from intersex (hermaphrodite) plants to fertilize females.they found that the seed and subsuquent offspring produced from this union will be predominantly female. The major problem with this technique is that these plants will have inter sexed tendencies. By selecting parent plants that have intersex tendencies, we ensure that some of the progeny will also have intersex tendencies. Using pollen from an intersex or hermaphrodite plant is an intentional selection for intersexuality - like begets like.
Some seed companies market "feminized seeds" which are produced by collecting pollen from carefully selected, latent, stress-induced hermaphrodites, and use them to pollinate female plants. This process is time-consuming and arduous but yeilds mostly female plants when grown without stress. However, under the stresses that resulted in intersexuality for the pollen parent, the progeny will often show some degree of intersexuality as well.
So how do we get true females (ones that don't show any degree of intersexuality under normal conditions) to produce pollen? Can we get pollen from female plants that don't show a degree of intersexuality?
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