Seed Breeding Q's for ppl. W/ exp.

[stinkyattic]

Last grow Crispi happend to find about 15 male flowers on 1 of 3 Feminised Blueberry plants . :

Ooooh there is the EXACT reason that feminized beans scare me shitless.
You don't really know for sure what the deal is with the breeding stock...
did they herm naturally? (shudder)
Did the breeder use chemicals or light cycle?
How much stress did the plants have to be exposed to before they went hermi?
That last Q is the most important IMHO. That propensity to herm is a heritable trait.

1- Will these new seeds also be feminised ?:

Yes

2- Will the new offspring tend to wanna be hermies ? :

Yes... sorry...

3- Did i lessen the chances of hermies by pollenating a dif. plant verses the 1 that act. produced the male flowers to begin w/ . :

I think that is a good Q. I am going to have to say that it is possible... you took pollen from a donor that went herm very easily, and applied it to a female that resisted the stress better, so depending on how the genes all shake out, you could have a better resistance against herming under stress in the offspring as compared to the 'she-male', or worse than the female... you'll just have to test them!!! But if it were me, I'd ONLY grow those seeds that you got off the non-hermed female, just so there's a better chance they will be 'normal'.

4- Are these new seeds known as F2's ?
:

Wow I don't know... Let's see... if blueberry is a f1 hybrid (don't know) and you crossed a female and a male, you'd get F2s. Now, since you are working with selfed plants, and fem beans to begin with... er.... I have no clue!