CLONE ONLY SUCKS!!!!

I never said it was a great solution(or that I was the only one to think of GB acid) but something I would do myself, obviously as a starting point. I think Stinkyattic knows where I'm coming from.

As for hermies, you can buy seeds from highly regarded seed banks and still get many strains that go hermie at the drop of a hat. As a matter of fact I don't see that tendency as a weakness in the plant(though not wanted by growers) but as it's inbuilt survival mechanism. Look at thai landrace strains and there strong tendency to herm, and imho is the best sativa on the planet. Is there such a thing as a hermie free plant anyway? Stress the shit out of it and it should hermie, if it doesn't than it lacks it's natural survival instinct. Good thing? You decide..

Psteve, going to try a few "clone onlys" shortly including trainwreck and i'll get back to you. If it outdoes Chocolate Thai in the sativa stakes i'll be damned. BTW, there are many people that have tried these CO's and think there pretty average..

I still have yet to actually recognize a chocolate flavor in bud. I just can't get my taste buds around it, lol. They refuse to acknowledge that the smoke tastes like chocolate. I gave up on chocolate chunk partially out of frustration that it didn't taste like anything, lol.

Force-herm with GA... I have mixed feelings about it... if it's a strain that is very resistant, it's a viable option for someone who knows what they are doing; IMHO if you find yourself in the position where you are DESPERATE to force-herm a plant, you very likely also have the resources to figure out the proper application of GA, lol.

I'd try to force herm in this order:
1) photoperiod stress. Paper bag over plant. Remove randomly. Shine bright light up in there randomly. Or put plant in large cardboard box. Set CFL on timer to go on and off at odd hours.
2) Allow over-ripening 2 weeks past harvest. You SHOULD get some bananas.
3) Induce heat stress. Not that great because first off, where are you going to do that, and second, it WOULD be nice to have a helathy plant at the end of it all
4) Combinations of the above
5) GA. Because you can't use that plant for consumption after.

Look for the chocolate flavour in the aftertaste mate. It wont standout as much as say the old school bubblegum taste though but it is usually there.

Great post too SA!!!

Yeah, stinky's right about the heterozygous traits. Most living things have two sets of DNA, one from the mom and one from the dad. These sets will always be mostly the same, but occasionally, you'll have two different genes, or alleles. Often, the genes are dominant or recessive, meaning only one type will express itself. But sometimes, genes can be codominant or incomplete dominant, meaning both sets of DNA express themselves. When you cross a plant with itself, only half of the heterozygous traits (ie, traits where the two alleles are different) remain the same with the offspring.

A lot of the really awesome plants are hybrids, meaning the two parents are quite different. This means that a lot of the offsprings' genes are heterozygous, so pollinating one of these hybrids with itself will get rid of a lot of the heterozygous traits, and having some of these heterozygous traits may be what makes the plant so awesome.

In most cases forcing a hermie will not make the offspring more likely to hermie, especially if you're pollinating within an inbred line. If there is a gene that increases susceptibility to hermaphrodite phenotypes in your gene pool, then you may be bringing it to the forefront, but most good lines have probably had the hermie genes bred out of them by now. Anyway, the problem usually isn't due to breeders that breed for themselves, it's due to seed banks that sell feminized seeds from plants that hermie really easily. Which means those plants may also hermie easily for you, which is probably a bad thing.

Listen up! I crossed a male C99 with a bluberry x NL #5 and grew out lots of beans. I had so much difference in the seeds you would not belive they came off the same plant. But, I got one hell of a prize, one plant that grows huge, looks like the bbx nl but smokes like the c99 and I have yielded 3 1/2 pounds off one plant indoors with side lighting. This is a clone only plant! I could plant some more of the seeds she came from but to get another like her is not likely to happen. I just got lucky. and to boot she does not smell, I mean I can have people in my house with a full 5k grow on and no smell. So if you want one of those super plants you need the clone or as previously mentioned cube it, wich I am in the process of, 2 years into so far. I used a white widow male. Oh yeah I would share mine for free, fuck those ripoffs and stingy fuckers, who cares, just share, SHAGGY

stinky the choco taste does exsist... i'm not 100% sure when you taste it, but i know for a 100% fact it does exsist...

that's how i know i smoked true MTF, i was like damn this taste like choco a lil bit... and years later when reading up on MTF, sure enough it is suposed to taste like the bean

and yall, don't worry about the clone only strains... strains aren't THAT unique... just play with breeding, and growing... and eventually you will find your favorite

i didnt evan know purple kush was clone only.There is alot of that going around non-stop were im at and its nowere near california:thumbsup:

Shaggy that's sweet spread the wealth on those beans.

It will take some time to weed all the white widow out of her but thats all I got, TIME

Yeah I know there IS a chocolate flavor, but I have had a difficult time actually recognizing it- to me, both the Chunk and the MTF come across more as a dark richness.
Shaggy- that was sweet of you but we can't even offer free beans to friends on here, sorry!