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    Reg seeds or fem seeds for pheno hunt?

    HSC's fems aren't as stable and consistent as the regs of the same filal generation? I would expect their female seeds to be even better because the breeder can directly observe the female flower traits of both parents. There is no reason at all why fems can't be bred to be at least as stable...
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    Almost all males out of 20 regs.

    Hit a reversed male with regular male pollen. Of those seeds, 25% will be XX female, 50% XY male, and 25% YY "supermale" Crossing YY supermale pollen with a XX female will give you 100% regular XY males. The trick is identifying those supermales. Without a genetic test you'll have to make...
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    Reg seeds or fem seeds for pheno hunt?

    "regs" should be short for "regression towards the mean" because that is what happens every time someone chucks a great cut with a stem rubbed male
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    Reg seeds or fem seeds for pheno hunt?

    AFAIK, Humboldt Seed ORGANIZATION is bulk crap from Spain. Humboldt Seed COMPANY is the real deal. They are not tent breeders. They do some huge selections, test for terp levels, and work their gear.
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    Reg seeds or fem seeds for pheno hunt?

    oh yeah, jbcseeds.com has a few Useful chocolate diesel crosses for $60 and they do I think 10 or 15% off for RIU, try RIU15 or RIU10 for the coupon codes (search for these terms here to find out). Useful and JBC are both cool cats that sponsor RIU. dcseedexchange.com has a better selection of...
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    Reg seeds or fem seeds for pheno hunt?

    I can't tell you how many to get but there are some cheap fems available on gloseedbank.com with their "sttddeals" schtick (check the GLO thread and sign up for the email). Most of the CSI:H gear is $50 a pack there, theres some good sounding gear from Stray Fox for $35 a pack, some of the...
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    Reg seeds or fem seeds for pheno hunt?

    Fems are better because they are made from two parents that are definitely fire instead of a known good mother and a questionable male. The amount of variation depends on how homozygous the alleles are (i.e. whether there are unexpressed recessive genes lurking in the parents), it has nothing...
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    Friend found seeds in a time capsule from the 70s...

    Nobody really knows what "OG" stands for but "OG Kush" is a particular cultivar/cutting/genotype that is probably the most widely distributed "elite" of all. There are many crosses that are still being made too so its flavor has become an entire genre of weed. 85 samples have been sent to...
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    feminized seeds vs regular opinions please

    A good male makes seeds that produce fire females.
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    feminized seeds vs regular opinions please

    The whole "fems aren't suitable for breeding" is 100% utter bullshit. Fems are indistinguishable from the females in regular packs. Fems are better because both parents are fire instead of a fire female and a questionable male. Male selection is a complete joke.
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    Whos gotvthe best cheese,?

    CSI:H has S1s of the "UK Cheese" he's been holding for a while. I'm running one now about half way through flower and it started out a bit fruity and strangely savory but now it's got a real smoky thing going on.
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    feminized seeds vs regular opinions please

    You can pay maybe $10-$15 a pop extra to have your plants sexed by one of the available services and know for sure within a couple weeks of sprouting instead of months.
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    Science + Defoliation??????? (results from a -single- study)

    Searched Google Scholar and found only a single paper by Allison Justice and it was about fungus and from 2014. Where was this defoliation science published? Maybe you could provide a link to it.
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    Burnt tips diagnosis how to fix?

    Looks like early phosphorus deficiency. The PDF in the first post of the following thread has some real info in it. https://rollitup.org/t/characterization-of-nutrient-disorders-of-cannabis-sativa-published-18-october-2019.1052432/
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    Question about crossing two strains

    You can't tell how good a male is just by growing it out and rubbing the stem. That's why crossing/selfing females is the fastest and easiest way to get the best seeds you can. Silver thiosulfate is a lot easier that colloidal, only needs to be sprayed once or twice. The herm myth came from...
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    Why is Gary Payton so popular?

    As long as you say you got it from someone you trust 100% nobody will fault you. The reality is, most people don't really care about provenance and would be very lucky to get their hands on a rename of real Gelato 33, OG Kush, GSC, or GG4. Instead you see people showing up here every day...
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    Making fem seeds

    Selfing is the fastest way to stabilize a strain. Stable meaning true breeding, without a bunch of recessive traits lurking (homozygous alleles). If you're breeding and want to make real F1 hybrids that are uniform and vigorous you want to use two stable parents. Nobody does that because it...
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    bodhi seeds

    The guy modeling the shirts on Etsy, is that Bodhi? The kid is definitely one of Bodhi's kids, I've seen him on mrs_bodhi 'gram, and he's holding the guys hand like he is his daddy, so I'm guessing yes.
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    Sex and Regular Seeds

    You're the one spreading the misinfo here, not them.
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    Sex and Regular Seeds

    Cannabis is dioecious and uses the XY sex chromosome system, just like humans. The sex is determined by whether the haploid pollen has an X or Y chromosome and is already set in the seed at fertilization. That is why "fem" seeds that are all female are a possibility. All those people saying...
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