Quote Originally Posted by leftreartire
man sure sounds like alot of work to go thru and still take the chance of unstable genetics that could cause hemi's and screw up your entire grow sooner or later. why not just let your plants breed true. they way mother natured intended. it only take 1 male to pollenate an entire field of females.
my thoughts are if you germinate 100 seeds that you would have 99% rate of getting a females if you give them a stress free enviroment to grow in.
and breeding true and not dirupting the genetic make up of your plant will give you better yeilds and sooner later you will miss a hemi down deep in the plant and lose an entire grow to seed. some things are just better left alone
Garbage in...garbage out. Start with a stable strain, and you'll end-up with stable femmed seeds, if done properly. Each and every strain and phenotype I have played with has the ability to be femmed, (which for most users is a huge time saving and space saving bonus) so speaking from personal experience, your info regarding turning your plants into hermies is not at all a valid concern. (your info is wrong)

Can a newcomer screw this process up? Sure. However they can screw-up 'normal' breeding and stress the ladies, too. But most hermies are from improper care, not an unstable strain. Doing stuff like making femmed seeds from a femmed lady that came from femmed seeds to begin with, and you'll eventually breed-in the ability to hermie with a minimum of stress. (undesirable)