Making female seeds (breeders help)
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Kindbud421
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They would be 50/50 male female seeds. Nice cross though. You can pollinate the one and get seeds that are half male/ half female then grow those seeds and use colloidal silver or silver thiosulfate (STS) to reverse your plants to produce female seeds. Probably will not be stable genetics though. You will have to work it for a few cycles to stabilize.
Interesting assumption, what has your rate been? With all the reversals I've done only 1 has been unstable. So personally I assume stability vs instability.
Observe & Report
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If you have grown this genotype before as a female then you're probably right. However, could be a real male from random pollen in the air. I have no idea what the relative odds are but I suspect contamination is more likely. There is no way to know without sending it in for a genetic sex test. Nobody ever seems to do that though.
Cou
Could u explain how to use sts ?
No it’s my first time with these seeds and im not sure 100% that my seeds were female
I bought them as a feminized from my dealer but i think he breed them himself that tange turn male completely has a exceed light burn in his veg stage that stun it for couple days
They were two plant so as their nature one turn male and one female
What do u mean contamination?
So a female seed can completely turn male through a high strees befor start bloom
C. Nesbitt
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How do u reversal?
I spray with a mixture of Silver Nitrate and Sodium Thiosulfate.
PopAndSonGrows
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Yeah but did you reverse a fem that hermed? Seems that's what the o.p. is looking to do. ...
I've reversed many femmed seeds and the one case I had herm issues with was a regular photoperiod reversal.
So u can reverse a branch female bud site and let it pollinate whole plant ?
O
r colleclting pollen and use it in another branch of same plant?
Either way will work but I usually reverse an entire plant or two (you can't smoke the sprayed parts of the plants and with dripping and overspray I toss them), and pollinate an entire table.
Is it possible for a female seed to completely become male ?
Through stress
Opie1971
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No, there’s no Y chromosome present. It can turn into a hermaphrodite though.
So my breeder sold me regular seeds in ur opinion?