CrustyWires
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I'm wondering if it's generally OK to germinate bag seed, and if female, take all way to flower?
I have 5 seeds, whats the expected male / female ratio
I have 5 seeds, whats the expected male / female ratio
Are bag seed ok to rely on and germinate?
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Dreaming1
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Only on Even numbered Tuesdays, but generally, yes. And taking them all the way to flower is the point. And then you have to try them to find out if they are any good.
The ratio for 5 seeds is 2-3 females, and 2-3 males. However... You could have 5 females, 5 males, or 5 females that are also males.
Like begets like. If you have some good herbs, the seeds will be like the parents. If you have bad herbs, the seeds will also be like the parents. If you only have those seeds and no way to get anything else, then there you go. You can always grow these to hone your garden skills. Then when you pop a pack of seeds you bought, you will have a better chance of success with them. Get in there and start figuring it all out. Good luck! I hope you end up finding magic.
ManofTREE
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I've had 3 exceptional results from bagseed. Blueberry, master kush, and island sweet skunk. For starters, the bud that the seeds came from was all sensimilla, you may only find one or two seeds an ounce. In my experience, each single seed of its respective strain turned out to be female l, homozygous, and a good representation of the bud I found it in. No hermi in other words. Now, if you found these seeds in heavily seeded weed that wasn't terrific in the first place, it's possibly unstable genetics and not worth the effort, but I won't tell you no. Good luck
conor c
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Its touch and go you can have killer plants or shit plants depends on is it hermie plants or is it from reg pollen was it cos stress or bad genetics its a lottery og kush the chems and half of all the popular genetics today from america has its roots in bagseed so its worth remembering that so thats why i always kept seeds from good weed going back to the 90s i got some older than that but that was gifted i would say for flower its ok i would not breed with bagseed personally tho others might .
amneziaHaze
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in rare ocasions your seed will be better than the one you smoked.because the breeder cut early, or didnt feed good. or the gene from her grandfather came in and it was something people looked for but didnt find it in the last round
Unga Bunga
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This was my experience . Some mid grade weed was around that looked like had been mishandled during/after harvest . The bud structure was very nice but the color and smell was kinda off . Turned out to be one of the best and easiest strains I ever grew , indoor and outdoor . Never knew the strain but it was very "Northern Lights'ish" . 20+ years ago .
tstick
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I'm just now learning that an S1 seed and a seed made from a 'nanner are essentially the same thing. In one instance, you use a chemical to get the plant to produce some pollen -except that, since the plant is a female, the pollen it produces will only carry the female chromosome. In the other case, the female plant, itself, voluntarily produces some pollen due to stress or the genetic predisposition. So any plant that comes from those will be a feminized seed. I think it's pretty rare these days to have a bag seed that was made from the pollen of a male plant -unless maybe it was an outdoor grow that wasn't managed very well. I think bag seeds, today, are probably nearly all made from 'nanner-pollinated female plants. The complexity of the hybrid lineage of today's strains very likely carries with it some kind of predisposition for self-pollinating.
So to answer the OP...Yes you can grow bag seed and you will very likely get a female plant from it. Now, having said that, it may just end up carrying on and even magnifying the self-pollinating trait....Or, it might produce a purely female plant. You might get the best of all worlds....Or, you might get the worst. It might be like the flower it came from...Or, it might be something totally different.
Correct me if I am wrong. I am still learning.
So to answer the OP...Yes you can grow bag seed and you will very likely get a female plant from it. Now, having said that, it may just end up carrying on and even magnifying the self-pollinating trait....Or, it might produce a purely female plant. You might get the best of all worlds....Or, you might get the worst. It might be like the flower it came from...Or, it might be something totally different.
Correct me if I am wrong. I am still learning.
Tolerance Break
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I prefer canned seed for the carbonation.
In all seriousness. Yes. Its a plant, don't over think it lol
You dont know what it will be until you grow it, so fuck around and find out at your leisure!
As far as reliance? If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose bag seed or one of my preferred cultivars, I'm not relying on the bag seed.
In all seriousness. Yes. Its a plant, don't over think it lol
You dont know what it will be until you grow it, so fuck around and find out at your leisure!
As far as reliance? If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose bag seed or one of my preferred cultivars, I'm not relying on the bag seed.
Unga Bunga
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The bag seed I referred to in my last post I believe came from a commercial outdoor or greenhouse grow . My reasoning is that in every ounce bag I'd find 10-20 fully mature seeds . I suspect a late male in a crop grown from seed vs nanners on clones . Reason being that I got normal male/female plants when I grew them out .
Some years down the road a friend got a medical permit and often bought 2nd cutting buds from the dispensary . More often than not we'd find a couple seeds in it , some mature but most not . Those were all given to a friend who was still growing outdoors . He did everything from seed and sexed them under lights before putting them out . Every one was female .
He never got full blown hermies from them but did get nanners in late bloom . Not early enough to really seed anything up .
Some years down the road a friend got a medical permit and often bought 2nd cutting buds from the dispensary . More often than not we'd find a couple seeds in it , some mature but most not . Those were all given to a friend who was still growing outdoors . He did everything from seed and sexed them under lights before putting them out . Every one was female .
He never got full blown hermies from them but did get nanners in late bloom . Not early enough to really seed anything up .
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Stardog FPV
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I planted a bag seed came from a strain called "go time", one 5 foot plant growing outside stunk up an entire city block smelling like roadkill skunk lol. I wish I would've cloned it was so so good.
C2F Exotic
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Depending on the genetics of said bagseed. There could be true gems in them. They just require a little work and caution on your part. Caution being the tendency to herm. The amount of work you put into it will only be limited by your imagination. You can take it S2, you can breed it to your favorite male to create regular seeds, there's a bunch of options. At the end of the days its still a plant and will grow!
amneziaHaze
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Mendel’s experiments
Mendel is known as the father of genetics because of his ground-breaking work on inheritance in pea plants 150 years ago.
www.sciencelearn.org.nz
HydroKid239
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Pop em! I had a single seed I found in an ounce, and I grew it out.. was a nice sativa leaning, sour/sweet smelling beauty. I liked her smoke very much, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to keep her with all the other mothers I have. I did clone her and grow her inside as well a second time. She was a 12 weeker.
(Indoor)
(outdoor)
(Indoor)
(outdoor)
amneziaHaze
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looks like a nice base.strong cristals in the middle,little too much leaf production but beautiful leaf.shes got some fan leaf crystals but could be more
cross it with a hashplant
HydroKid239
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She was definitely a headache to trim. I won’t be running it again. The indoor run was the last of it. It was quite a surprise to get such nice smoke from a single shot in the dark. If I didn’t have a few breeder cuts I would have kept her. No nanners at all. She was a memorable one for sure.