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its not so much its an issue of just putting them out there. The issue will come from the ones people forget they have out there. And theres no guarantee at all your female will make a hemp seed, drop it, and that itll go next spring.I appreciate this input. I am not a thin skinned guy at all and no worries. I will not spread problems for the future potheads to deal with. I did no research on outdoor propagation in the wild and was unaware.
Back to trading my seeds for something not worth shipping!
The issue is that a LOT of people do that, and simply because autoflowering is a dominant trait not recessive, it only takes 1 to make it to the next season for it to start spreading through a population simply because autoflowering is such an evolutionary ace in the whole for a plant to achieve. The plants posessing the trait will be able to reproduce and grow back 2x per season in some places, and it being a dominant trait, 3/4 of all the offspring or so, even if just one partent has the trait, will present the trait too. Thats why we went from no good autoflowering strains to tons of them in under a decade or two. Its because its a highly evolutionarily beneficial, dominant trait. You dont have to work it into a population, it does that on its own.
The reason hermies are so sporadic by contrast, is because thats a recessive trait. Both parents have to have the trait for it to express in roughly 3/4 of the offspring, if they dont, itll only express in 25% or often even less. Where as a plant could have great grandparents, where only ONE was an autoflower, and youll still see a 25% autoflowering rate give or take. Once a succesful dominant trait is within a wild population, it cannot be removed easily at all. Whereas recessive traits can be removed very easily from a genotype... often in just 1 or 2 generations, dominant traits arent so easily dealt with. The implications there are quite stressful to me because most people dont totally understand them even when you explain it to them.
The wild north american hemp land races are currently very usable for breeding work with intent. If autoflowering traits get introduced to them over the next couple decades though, they will be 100% totally useless for anything at all, even mostly useless for textiles and fiber output. They will start to spread and reproduce far more rapidly. Literally twice as fast. And it will quickly become impossible to breed cannabis outdoors in most of North America at all, and the wild fast flowering photo CBD heavy american land races will be a thing of the past too.
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