I just don't understand how he's so bad with this, especially the blue dream since other breeders offer blue dream s1 without these issues. What the hell is he doing to consistently cause herms in most of his lines, it's really strange. He has the opposite of the Midas touch everything he touches turns into a shemale.
Well, I haven't seen many Blue Dream S1s out there, actually. There are a bunch of reg crosses out with it as well as feminized, though. And there's a bunch of different ways to produce feminized seed, some people think some work better than others. This is why Soma just lets his plants run long until they produce male flowers, but I think most breeders use one of the various chemicals that cause plants to herm, such as colloidal silver. Honestly, I think a lot of other breeders just do better testing than tCC, and maybe catch the bad match ups or herm heavy males earlier. I've heard more than one breeder hypothesize that the reason there's so many herms on the market these days is that too many breeders don't know what they are doing in male selection, and pick males that are incredibly vigorous and overloaded with dominant genetics. I'm not going to weigh in on that either way, except to say that I agree that you should look for mostly recessive traits in male plants.
No pic of the male. It's already composting lol.
Got them from the attitude. So far other beans have been good to go from that seedbank.
Well, the Tude definitely ain't gonna bait and switch ya, so that's definitely ruled out.
The percentage likelihood of getting a male from feminized seed is
so low that getting more than one in a five pack is super unlikely.
What's much more likely is that tCC is running not the most airtight of operations and some of their dreadful (I've grown crosses with it, it sucks, end pof argument) male SFV pollen got all up on the female; or they just mixed up some beans.
The herm, well, that's fucking Cali Connection for you.
Chem, diesel, and OG are all tricky lines, but at this point I would grow from anyone else (other than rez) with those genetics before Swerve. Dude may have the genetics, but he has no game.
