Viable Pollen

[tikiroom]

I have a plant that was grown from a femmed seed. It has seen alot of stress and appears to be male.
My question is if I save the male for pollen, would the resulting generation be prone to hermi?

tikiroom Reviewed by tikiroom on 12-10-2010. Viable Pollen I have a plant that was grown from a femmed seed. It has seen alot of stress and appears to be male. My question is if I save the male for pollen, would the resulting generation be prone to hermi? Rating: 5

[MadSativa]

probly. breaders kill all hermies only viable males are supposed to be used.

[tikiroom]

Thanks for the reply. :jointsmile:
I thought it might be a problem, but wanted to make sure.
I will just kill it, and save myself some headaches down the road.

[GreenThumbDoc]

probly. breaders kill all hermies only viable males are supposed to be used.

If you are breeding strictly for seeds or crossing for new strains, I would totally agree with this. However, if you are wanting femmed seeds, then using the pollen from a female plant (that has sprouted naners) on another "unique" female is how it is done. :thumbsup:

GTD

[MadSativa]

not entirerly, it has to be under certain condittions, if it is a genetic hermi, then theri is a high chance it will pass those traits on to its off spring.

[bigsby]

If you are breeding strictly for seeds or crossing for new strains, I would totally agree with this. However, if you are wanting femmed seeds, then using the pollen from a female plant (that has sprouted naners) on another "unique" female is how it is done. :thumbsup:

GTD

From my reading this is generally acceptable practice. Many growers will stress a female into hermie simply to produce pollen for cross breading. With a stable strain it should be fine.

[tikiroom]

I have decided to take some cuttings from it to clone, and maybe make a bonsai father.
I have not decided yet whether or not I'm going to use it's pollen, but this way I'll still have the option.
Plus this will give me some cloning and bonsai practice. :jointsmile:

My concern is that it's previous "father" was stressed to hermi. So now it will have at least two generations of hermi's back to back.
Wouldn't this make the resulting generation more prone to hermi?

In case anyone was interested this strain is LSD from Barney's Farm, purchased from Attitude.

[canniwhatsis]

I would think it would be similar to femming a femed plant for seeds, the seeds can start to take on the hermi aspect.

Actually, reading what I just posted, it's EXACTLY what your doing. Taking a feminized seed, then stress fagging it to switch genders.

I wouldn't trust the pollen to not produce hermi seeds. But you might get lucky.

[bigsby]

I would think it would be similar to femming a femed plant for seeds, the seeds can start to take on the hermi aspect.

Actually, reading what I just posted, it's EXACTLY what your doing. Taking a feminized seed, then stress fagging it to switch genders.

I wouldn't trust the pollen to not produce hermi seeds. But you might get lucky.

That's what logic would suggest. However, if you read up you will find a number of growers here that swear by this practice. Hold on. I'll dig out some threads...

[canniwhatsis]

Not trying to start a shit storm, If the strain is stable enough I don't think 2nd or 3rd generation Stress Fagged plants would produce much of a problem seed batch, but if it's already unstable, I'd think it would be bad news.


I have my questions about my "Purple Berry" Seeds :wtf: (hermi GDP pollenated 6 flowers on my BlueBerry) I haven't cracked any of them yet.