question about pollen for breeding

Hello all. I have been doing some research about creating my own fem seeds.... I have a really good mother plant right now that I have cut many generations of clones off of. It's been around for years... I was given 1 seed from a friend and he told me it was "special" and to wait a while until i really knew what I was doing before I grew it... So i waited about a year and a half before i germinated it. It turned out to the be 1 of the most beautiful females any of us (me and my group of friends) have ever seen...So anyway, i pretty much have been thinking about creating fem seeds of it, just because I want the original strain, without cross breading it with something else. As far as i know, it is a 1 of a kind. I was looking into using some of that colloidal silver spray to get it to produce pollen, then use that pollen to make seeds... This time i did a whole run of the same strain, no other different strains in the tent, and a few plants at a friends... I usually harvest this strain at 60 days of flower, and this time i let it go a extra few days, maybe a week. I noticed that a few of of my plants at home started to produce male bananas on the lower buds, and same with 1 of the plants at my friends...Keeping in mind that i have had 4-5 previous runs with this same plant and never had any bananas... I saved the pollen and was wondering if this could be used to make feminized seeds, or would they come out to be hermi and not worth the time... I have read forums about people that say they push their plants later than normal to get them to produce pollen to breed some seeds, but i think they were going like a extra month of flower or something...

hmmm... any1?

That pollen will make feminized seeds but the seeds will not be identical to the mother plant. There are recessive traits that when crossed to the same plant will express in the offspring. It will be close but don't expect a "clone in seed form". If you use colloidal silver you will "reduce" your chance of getting hermies from the offspring imo.

SirSmokeAlot303 said:

.. I saved the pollen and was wondering if this could be used to make feminized seeds, or would they come out to be hermi and not worth the time... I have read forums about people that say they push their plants later than normal to get them to produce pollen to breed some seeds, but i think they were going like a extra month of flower or something...

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Not female "or" hermie but female 'and' hermie. The plants from the seeds you'd create with it inherit the chance to spawn bananas. But technically, yes, you could use it to create fem seeds, and yes they will turn out hermie if grown under the same circumstances as the parent when it turned hermie. Read the following for more info about creating fem seeds that way: http://www.hightimes.com/read/rodelization-somas-way-female-seeds

if you had male nanners that popped pollen, you probably should have some seeds
if not, the pollen could be sterile, which does happen a fair bit
pollen goes bad fast unless you get it dried fast, i freeze dry which works great

The bananas had to of formed in the last week of flower, because i keep a really close eye on things in the tent. always looking for hermie's, bugs, etc... hmmm... interesting stuff