seeds?

[Chaos]

me and a friend were talkin tonight and how does the female make seeds when it doesnt even pollinate with a male?

Chaos Reviewed by Chaos on 08-14-2006. seeds? me and a friend were talkin tonight and how does the female make seeds when it doesnt even pollinate with a male? Rating: 5

[Inferius]

Hermaphrodite. Under certain stress conditions, or simply through genetics, the female plant can produce male pollen sacs. These seeds are usually worthless, considering the plant not only might be genetically hermaphroditic, but the seeds now have it in their genetics.
Hermaphrodites are generally killed.

[stinkyattic]

These seeds are usually worthless, .

Actually that's the method by which feminized seeds are produced- stress the females, cause stress herms, harvest resultant seed.


Although I think 'feminized' seeds are kind of sketch. Either clone, or just deal with killing the males.

[Mole2k4]

Feminised seeds are made using a female plant.
They stress 1 area of the plant such as 1 branch. Wait for that to turn hermie, then pollinate all the female areas. Therefore creating fem seeds.
{Edit} In case that isn't clear: To clarify they DON'T use herm plants, they make a certain area stress and use that area to pollinate the others {Edit}
Fem seeds are usually 99.9% females, therefore better than 50/50 some even state hermaphrodite free, although I don't know how true that is.

To respond to chaos:
Plants that turn hermaphrodite CAN pollinate themselves, also I have heard that if you GREATLY delay harvest time, then the plants start to make seeds anyway regardless of whether they are pollinated or not, although they are just empty shells and as such they dont actually grow into anything.

[Zandor]

Feminised seeds are made using a female plant.
They stress 1 area of the plant such as 1 branch. Wait for that to turn hermie, then pollinate all the female areas. Therefore creating fem seeds.
{Edit} In case that isn't clear: To clarify they DON'T use herm plants, they make a certain area stress and use that area to pollinate the others {Edit}
Fem seeds are usually 99.9% females, therefore better than 50/50 some even state hermaphrodite free, although I don't know how true that is.

To respond to chaos:
Plants that turn hermaphrodite CAN pollinate themselves, also I have heard that if you GREATLY delay harvest time, then the plants start to make seeds anyway regardless of whether they are pollinated or not, although they are just empty shells and as such they dont actually grow into anything.

Yup :thumbsup:

Could not have said it better my self.

[Mole2k4]

Glad to know I'm right.... Some of the time!