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So i got a a bunch of seeds from a great plant gone hermie. i've heard they will all be female, is this too good to be true? is ths why i've had females with any bagseed and half males when getting them from a seedbank? if they are feminized, i wonder if they will be more likely hermie too?
So i got a a bunch of seeds from a great plant gone hermie. i've heard they will all be female, is this too good to be true?
Nope, a hermie female can only make gametes with XX chromosomes so it's true! There's no possibility of a XY combination!
is ths why i've had females with any bagseed and half males when getting them from a seedbank?
Yup- commercial growers don't typically keep males around so any stray pollen is more than likely from a hermie female.
if they are feminized, i wonder if they will be more likely hermie too?
Yes. They will produce male sex parts under similar conditions to the mother. So if the commercial grower ran hot and got hermies, if you run hot you can expect them too.
so is this how the seedbanks make feminized seeds? cuz i really dont think i wanna spend the extra if thats all they do to make em. clones are sounding better and better! and a seperate question maybe someone can answer.. how long do seeds store for? ive have some seedbank seeds not germinate, and most bagseed pops lickedy split, ive started 5 n.lights and had 0 germinate, kinda expensive like that.
They should be good for minimum 5 years in a cool dry dark place, in an airtight jar.
After 5 years, germ rates start to decline by about 10% a year.
That is how fem seeds are made. Pick only excellent representatives to work with, and don't ever use a female that throws nanners under normal grow conditions. Use one who has to be stressed pretty bad to show male parts.
Clones ARE the bombdiggity. Learn to take them and your life gets super easier.