Can I make feminized seeds from feminized seeds?

[WashougalWonder]

Basically I just want to create more femmed seeds from purchased femmed seeds from a seedbank.

Essentially I would assume that the seed bank only has a mother, as in my instance. I am hoping the first inbreed is stable if I ever get there.....but beyond that, I agree that you are messing with unhinging the herme tendency, unless you cross to a different breed. Still good chance of herme, but no where near as unstable as redoing a femmed fem, as Rusty states.

You start doing this and it takes a lot of time to follow to the end result.

I crossed a Jedi herme with all of my stable genetics. First one that went to flower, showed herme in 14 days. Second too soon to tell, but it does not look like a young herme does. (And I cannot describe it, it just looks different in the early flowering stage.) The one that hermed, was on this one that is such a stable mother, so it doesn't take much to mess up the genetics I am learning very quickly.

Must understand I am a 'backyard' gardener, uneducated in horticulture, know some science. So I am full of poo, take it or leave it, but I am having fun playing farmer....always wanted to be a farmer....lol

[Rusty Trichome]

Every step you now take, takes you one step closer to enlightenment.

Perhaps if we were to step-back, take a look at the long-term goals, and make sure the strategy fits the goals...this might be a less painful journey.

For the price of one femmed strain, you can get two quality batches of 'normal' seeds. I'd go for the high quality organic genetics (un-femmed) and do an initial seed run to get to know the strain, and to replenish my seed stock and preserve your genetics.
This way, if the time comes that you want to fem 'em, you know the strain and you are likely to have more success and (should) retain strain stability. Plus, if something goes wrong, you have a back-up plan and the untainted seeds to start anew. Heck, you can get a sativa dom, and an indica dom...and spend the next fifty years perfecting femmed crosses if you so desire.

Eases the mind when you don't have to worry about screwing-up a mega-dollar strain. Panic creates impatience. (or is it the other way around...?)

But if your back is up against the wall, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. :thumbsup:

Anyway...that's my story, and I'm sticking to it, lol.

[THContent]

Thanks guys for giving good insight, I will stick to good genetics for now, and just breed those, and later on when I have a stackload of cash, I will invest in buying the femmed seeds from barneys and attempt to make femmed seeds from femmed seeds haha... thanks again guys

On second thought, Rusty, how do you feel about using a normal Big Bud normal female with good genetics, herm it save nanners and cross that with a femmed G13 Haze plant gown under optimal conditions, how do you think the outcome would be? I know there is only one way to tell, but at first glance.

[Rusty Trichome]

If it was as easy as that, we'd all be doing it.

If you can afford to purchase seeds, I don't at all see a problem with playing around. It's one hell of a learning experience, and makes a boring hobby more interesting. Keep yourself a 'progression' log, label all seeds and plants and selectively breed them how you'd like. Have a goal in mind, or it becomes a scattered experience with inconsistent progression. Might get lucky or good, and come up with the "eternal buzz" folks have been searching for since Ponce DeLeon found the Fountain of Youth. (that'd be cool, good looking and stoned forever...)

When cross breeding, the trick is to keep track of the differing offspring, and selectively breed the positive traits you are looking for in the cross. Tiz a little harder than it sounds, and often the crosses don't add up to a worthwhile (better than the parents) combo. That's why some patients pay the big bucks instead of breeding local bagseed.

My goals when breeding fresh seeds of incredibly expensive stock, (online seeds in general) is to breed as if purebred, and selectively breed to keep the strain within breed standards. (if necessary...most quality genetics have, at the most, two different expressions) My first seed run is always to breed organic untainted seeds and have them in-hand before I mess-around with crosses and femming. (always have a back-up plan)

[vertigo0007]

I think professionnal breeders would beg to differ. Og kush #18 is exactly that. A clone only strain, femmed and liked so much they refemmed it again and germed 30 seeds from it and #18 was more sour, more blah blah blah. This had nothing to do with being in a pinch or any other nonsense. It was bread like that on purpose for a desired effect.