Self pollination to preserve genetics?

a friend of mine has offered me a few uk cheese (exodus) clones. I've been assured these are the real things. Now normally I would just use these As mothers and keep clones, but I'm worried about the plant numbers involved in raising clones. I read a while back that if I force hermaphroditism and allow the plant to self pollinate it would be my best chance of keeping these genetics for years to come.

I'd just like a few pointers on how to do this. Is there anything in particular that I should be reading? At what point during flower should I hermie the plant? WhTs the best way to induce hermaphroditism? I was thinking dropping the temperAture to about 10'c constant until I see bananas. But then should I maintain that temperature or should I set it back at 25'c?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've got about a month until I get the clones and then maybe another month after that before I can selfie them, so there's plenty of time to be reading.

Thanks guys

Check this thread out for info on how to best make your own seeds from a female plant.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/a-guide-to-colloidal-silver.865536/

Thanks bro

Hazey have you yourself used this technique? It seems a much better method than shocking a plant to hermaphroditism. I've never done any breeding or anything like this so this will definitely be a learning curve lol. Hellllo research, my wife won't be happy when I'm letting my plants have sex but won't show her any attention lol!

Don't let it hermie...you will make you strains unstable. And it will take very long to get that hermie trait to leave. Use the spray or just allow it to keep budding over its due date

can I just ask, if I do this will I be creating seeds that show uniformity and keep traits of the mother. Or will I just be getting more skunk#1 seeds with huge variation between phenos

Generally if you do the spray, you may want to isolate one branch to do it with, spray just that branch, put a paper bag over the bud site and put a rubber band around the stem, just not tight. The seeds in all things perfect world will be a doppleganger to your original, no hermi traits, and yes they take years to breed the herm traits back out, at least for me it did.