two questions

1) If i do a clone from my plant, will it automatically become a female plant?

2) If I wanted seeds of a specific strain, would all I have to do is get a male and female, and have the male pollen the female plant?

Thanks

A clone is an exact replica of the original plant, so if your plant is female, your clone will be female. I'll leave the second question to someone who knows more about breeding than I do.

Poodle answered you first question, as for your second question. Yes, that's as simple as it get's. Assuming you already have the seeds from the specific strain you want to grow...

If you want a plant that gives 99.9999% female seeds you will have to breed that strain for years until the genetics are perfect. Someone feel free to quote me on that, but I believe thats how you get a plant to produce only fem seeds.

Feisty1UR said:

Poodle answered you first question, as for your second question. Yes, that's as simple as it get's. Assuming you already have the seeds from the specific strain you want to grow...

If you want a plant that gives 99.9999% female seeds you will have to breed that strain for years until the genetics are perfect. Someone feel free to quote me on that, but I believe thats how you get a plant to produce only fem seeds.

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I havent done it, read some on it. Take a female spray Colloidal Silver on it(Do not smoke this plant..), will start to make pods on it, think you take that rub it with another female and you get the female seeds. The breeding seeds for a few generations, think thats more when you are crossing strains.

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You can use CS or TMist. I think the link in my sig "BKR project" talks about that in the beginning. I'm currently using it in my breeding program. Same link.

Feisty1UR said:

Poodle answered you first question, as for your second question. Yes, that's as simple as it get's. Assuming you already have the seeds from the specific strain you want to grow...

If you want a plant that gives 99.9999% female seeds you will have to breed that strain for years until the genetics are perfect. Someone feel free to quote me on that, but I believe thats how you get a plant to produce only fem seeds.

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No No No. You can make seeds on a female plant anytime with TMist. You can have 200-300 fem seeds when the plant is mature.

"If you want a plant that gives 99.9999% female seeds you will have to breed that strain for years until the genetics are perfect."
I don't see how strain genetics and female seeds are connected...

sworth said:

"If you want a plant that gives 99.9999% female seeds you will have to breed that strain for years until the genetics are perfect."
I don't see how strain genetics and female seeds are connected...

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That's what I thought you would have to do, to have a plant produce only female seeds.....But I forgot someone did mention colloidal silver, so yeah.. use that I guess..

Instead of dictating someone, maybe come up with a reason as to how they're wrong??

You misunderstand me...I wasn't sure anyone was wrong, just saying I don't see the connection

sworth said:

You misunderstand me...I wasn't sure anyone was wrong, just saying I don't see the connection

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Just what I was told before

tripp hxc,

Clones is how I run my operation I have kept some strains alive for years. Clones are not as good as growing from seed so they require a little extra veg time but it isn't a problem because since I know that I just put my veg plants in early and then just keep putting them in the veg so I always have the size plants I want in flower. You see, this way it is specifically a strain I love and which has produced for me in the past. With clones it is a little more challenging to top them and/or get each side of the plant to grow at the same rate. We have solutions for all that though and the answers are here on riu.

You can not simply take a male and female of a strain to produce seeds because the genetics are not dominantly stable. Breeders need to grow out thousands of seeds to find a plant with the characteristics they are interested in. As the guys explained above what you can do is self pollination which basically means we will stress the plant out until she becomes a hermaphrodite, a.k.a. hermie, and then we take the pollen from that stressed out plant and apply it to a clone of the same plant that hasn't been stressed out.

^^^ nailed it! The only thing I would add is you can take any male and cross it with any female and make seeds. I Chuck pollen all the time. Every 10 pack I get I make F2's from it it just so I preserve the genetics and can do further pheno hunting from there. The real difference is that respected breeders work lines over many generations and varieties to find the certain plant they're after so that their lines breed true. The unfortunate part but also fortunate part now is everything is such diluted poly hybrids, you're almost never know what you're going to get. Lol makes for fun hunts though. And I usually choose from two or three males and 10 or more females so I'm not exactly using just whatever but I'm certainly no breeder. I just had an F2 pheno that destroyed the original 6 females, so don't be discouraged from letting the pollen fly.

People get all confused with genetics. I try to simplify it with a dog analogy. If you take two poodles, you 99.9999% of the time get regular poodle puppies (barring genetic mutations like an albino poodle) but each poodle is unique, but still obviously a poodle. If you cut the tail of a specific poodle and clone it...they are genetically identical, but two different dogs now. If you take both of these poodles and breed one with a labrador and the other with a chihuahua, you get lots of really wierd puppies. Until you do it selectively enough times and you eventually get two distinct new breeds, labra-doodle (yes that's real) and a miniature poodle. Which you could breed with some certainty. With weed, each seed is a unique genotype of a specific phenotype (arrrrg! High school biology!) two gorilla glue seeds share a majority of the same traits, expressed differently. But if you take a cut of gorilla glue #4... It's #4 every time.