Wow Trousers, read your own post for god sakes.
First you write: Every cannabis plant has the ability to "hermi." Every female cannabis plant has the ability to "hermi."
Then you write: A "pure genetic female" is not rare, it is very common. All "pure genetic females" have the ability to produce male flowers.
Sorry, you couldn't be MORE wrong. A single plant carries either a female gene, a male gene, or both.....
A cannabis plant will either have two X chromosomes which would make it female or an X and a Y chromosome which would make it male. All female cannabis plants have the ability to show male flowers with viable pollen. Stress usually forces the plant to show male flowers. It is natural and a built in survival mechanism.
That does not change the fact that a female cannabis plant has two X chromosomes.
A PURE genetic female would not be able to hermi because it has NO MALE GENE TO HERMI. IT IS PURE FEMALE.
Cannabis normally has
imperfect flowers, with
staminate "male" and
pistillate "female" flowers occurring on separate plants.[SUP]
[11][/SUP] It is not unusual, however, for individual plants to bear both male and female flowers.[SUP]
[12][/SUP] Although monoecious plants are often referred to as "hermaphrodites," true hermaphrodites (which are less common) bear staminate and pistillate structures on individual flowers, whereas monoecious plants bear male and female flowers at different locations on the same plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis
What that is saying is that there are two different kinds of hermaphrodites. A true hermaphrodite will show both sexes from the beginning of flowering. Stressed hermaphrodites will show male flowers due to environmental conditions. To make feminized seeds we take advantage of this natural and normal phenomenon. Feminized seeds got a bad rap from bad growers stressing them.
And as for getting a female from a HERMI seed, yes, no kidding? Really???? I bet if you bred one of those "females", your next crop or 2 on down the line, if you're starting your plants from seed, you will be asking yourself... "how come I have male flowers on SOME of my female plants?"....
Not at all. I have produced thousands of feminized seeds using colloidal silver on true females. Every seed that has germinated produced a true female plant. I have not seen one male or any hermaphroditism of any kind.
Growers that do not know what they are doing stress plants. Stressed plants show male flowers. If you grow them properly, just like regular seeds, you will not get males or male flowers.
There are environmental factors that you can play with in germination that will que certain genetics to help certain gene's "wake up" that will try to help the seed become a dominant genetic female, or a male, and with Hermis, it can go either way.
That is absolutely not true. I have not found any solid evidence that seeds' sex is not predetermined. If a seed is going to produce a hermaphrodite, it can not go either way, it will be a hermaphrodite.
I have read a blog article that claims you can get more females if you set the environmental conditions correctly. I believed it for a while.
If you think about it, it doesn't make sense. It would make much more sense if the seed already has sex determined.
Properly made feminized seeds are 100% female. If environmental conditions played a role in sex determination, why are 100% of feminized seeds female? If you want to argue that feminized seeds tend to "hermie" more, I do not want to argue with you. Feminized seeds are nor more likely to "hermie" than their parents.
Like a little nitro will stimulate the female genes, while higher phosphorous levels might bring out the male dominant. Yellow to red spectrum light is said to que up the male genetic, while blue ques the female.
Do you have actual experience with this? I do not believe it. Thinking about feminized seeds, it does not make sense.
Read the book Cannabis Grow Bible by Greg Green it will help you folks alleviate the majority of your anxieties when it comes to breeding and genetics. It is extremely informative, and is where ALL of my information is gleaned from, if you wish to argue further, I suggest you write Greg Green rather than sit here giving false and or wrong information and acting like an expert that YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT!
I would suggest you learn that even a book that has the term"bible" in it, can have misinformation. I do not like grow books, I prefer experience.
You obviously do not have any experience producing or properly growing feminized seeds.
If you would like to forward this to Greg Green, go right ahead. I would be happy to debate anyone on this subject.
If you would like to further debate this, I suggest you get some facts to back up your opinions and perhaps try to be more civil.
CAPS DO NOT MAKE YOU MORE CORRECT, IT IS LIKE YELLING.