question about bag seeds

grow

Active Member
So after finding out my only white widow seedling may have died(seedling did not emerge after 8 days now), I have decided to grow some of the bag seed.
The weed from Where these seeds come, was VERY seedy,probably a hermie. So my question is, will this plant be a 100% hermie? Or do I have chances of a female as well? I have kept 6 seeds for germination, and am hoping I will get at least one female.

Thank you in advance!
 

schuylaar

Well-Known Member
So after finding out my only white widow seedling may have died(seedling did not emerge after 8 days now), I have decided to grow some of the bag seed.
The weed from Where these seeds come, was VERY seedy,probably a hermie. So my question is, will this plant be a 100% hermie? Or do I have chances of a female as well? I have kept 6 seeds for germination, and am hoping I will get at least one female.

Thank you in advance!
hermies are genetically related to the strain and you will have all fems.

don't practice on good seed..grow bag a few times until you've got a few under your belt.

good luck!
 

Ravener

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If the seeds really did come from a hermie, it will be 100% female, but not 100% hermie. It will carry the possibility of becoming a hermie, but pretty much everything has that possibility...what varies is the threshold of stress or other factors that make the hermie trait manifest. Think of hermie-prone strains not as genetically programmed to hermie but just incredibly sensitive to outside stressors, where environments that will be fine for 99% of plants are not fine for the 1% and make them hermie seemingly for no reason. It's the weed equivalent of a peanut allergy.
 

topfuel29

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The weed from Where these seeds come, was VERY seedy,probably a hermie.
They could have been fertilized from a Male plant. Your not sure of that.
All Females have the ability to become dioecious.
Most of the time, Heat or Deficiency, Bad growing conditions stress a plant, to become dioecious.
The strains on the market can be stable or un-stable.
You'll have to grow a few, and see what you get.
You can expect to have @50/50 Male/Female Ratio.

Good Luck on Your Grow.
 

Cascadian

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If you grow several seeds out and get some males, you are safe the seeds are not from hermie pollen.
 

mrCRC420

Well-Known Member
Your seeds should mainly be Female; however, some of them will herm. The herm-rate of your seeds depends on the strain and a whole bunch of factors. In general, your plants will not herm super early and will be female.
 

grow

Active Member
Thank you for the quick replies everyone.
Schuylaar , you are right about starting from bag seed as starter, I learnt it the hard way, lost my only white widow seed and not many sites deliver seeds to India.
I will show you guys some pics as soon as they germinate.
 
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