Schwag

[justaseed]

yes, i always took everything out, bleached floor, walls and ceiling and basically sterilized all the equipment.

i don't have a grow currently do to 1 year probation, but when i did have a grow, my white widows would always hermie on or around week 10 of flower as did my master kush but my gypsy's kiss never had 1 hermie at all in any point of it's life cycle. because of this i have to assume it is somewhat determined by genetics whether a plant is prone to hermie or not.

[orangeman]

Well I dont consider any green, or fresh weed schwagg. I just consider it really low quality. The only thing I consider schwagg is that fuckin brown weed that people let sit and get old and still try to sell it off as if it were any good.

[latewood]

cross breeding can produce hybrid variations in plants...some, although kickass, are not stable...that's one take on it. lw

[m.g.]

[QUOTE=latewood]hermies are going to happen, when growing from seed...

in all my years of growing indoors and out i have never had a hermie nor seen any in friends' grows. i think most are just a case of misidentifying females and wishful thinking while looking and waiting for preflowers.

breeding stable strains with another stabilized strain makes F1's and can be counted on to be 25% like the mother, 25% the father and 50% mixed traits of both but ALL should have 'hybrid vigor' and grow faster and bigger than the parents. that hybrid vigor is what makes F1's so desireable especially if coming from high quality strains.

[justaseed]

we weren't talking about "true hermies" as i have never seen a true hjermie othr than in pics. we were talking about when a female plant puts out a few male flowers late in flowering. some strains seem to do this more than others. i think it is a self preservation instinct or more accurately a genetic preservation instinct. all living creatures have a natural compulsion to reproduce. a female plant senses that the end of it's life cycle is near and it has not been pollinated yet(virgin) so in a last effort to reproduce and pass on its genes to another generation it produces a few male flowers in the hopes of self pollination. some plants/strains seem to have this instinct to a greater extent than others. remember, these hermies can be caused by stress as well. everyone reading this must be aware that these are just my conclusions based on personal experience as well as alot of research over the years. although this theory makes perfect sense to me others may disagree.

[LIP]

Swagg is all about the way its grown, almost always for sale.

[mad5387]

some of the best I ever had was Colombian Red Bud in the late 70s. I swear it was almost half seeds and by weight more than half. It had been dry in town for a couple months so I didnt mind too much paying twice what we had been for thiss seedy crap. But it just totally kicked but. I was around for about 6 months then gone. Havent seen it since. I know it was mass produced so I really really wish I had some of those seeds now.
Sweet Leaf Dreams

[burnable]

what the hell is the premise of this thread? how can I contribute if i dont' know the subject matter properly?

[elcheapo]

It makes sense if you read the first post on page 1.
Well at least it did for me.

[Jdog7000]

what the hell is the premise of this thread? how can I contribute if i dont' know the subject matter properly?

Dude,get a clue.:thumbsup: