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For sure. In the right hands it’s definately a great tool. It’s just in the hands of a tool it’s not ideal, haha. No worries tho I’ve read quite a bit about it. Never done it myself.
Really like the “tool” analogy. :-)
For sure. In the right hands it’s definately a great tool. It’s just in the hands of a tool it’s not ideal, haha. No worries tho I’ve read quite a bit about it. Never done it myself.
First question) If you stress a female to herm, (I have done this) don't you only get it to just make female seeds? When I have done this I have never seen them make pollen and then seeds.Technically you can but I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s just not a good practice and if we intend to keep genetics it’s best to do it the way Mother Nature intended.
What he was referring to is stressing a plant to hermaphroditism and then collecting that pollen for use on other plants. The resulting seeds are all female. However it’s been debated for quite some time wether that is a good practice and how it can negatively affect the gene pool.
There’s a valid use for that technique but it’s not a cure all.
They say when your a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
That company is one of only a few that offer that service. In fact it’s the first I’ve seen of it so far so they may be the only game in town. I don’t think you need a return address. They send you the envelope with a prepaid address label that has their address on it. I’m pretty sure your address is nowhere to be found. So once you drop your sample in and send it off there are no identifying clues other than a serial number that you use to check the results online. So I’m prettt sure there’s no risk involved on the part of the customer.
First question) If you stress a female to herm, (I have done this) don't you only get it to just make female seeds? When I have done this I have never seen them make pollen and then seeds.
Question 2) If you are stressing a female to make seeds, to me that is just a way to keep the same genetics....When trying to make a new strain or new genetics it doesn't get me anywhere to just repeat the same genes by hermaphrodites? That was a question phrased bad sorry :/
Maybe they were stuck in their ways and maybe I am too. I just don’t like the path we are headed down currently and feel this is one of the main antagonists of the results we are currently getting among others.
I'm old school and have been growing for decades. The plants and strains today are like Frankenstein monsters in some respect. I'm growing most of the same Landrace Sativa plants from days past, and I have yet to see a current plant that looks anything like the old genetics. It seems just about everything is a hybrid, stands a couple of ft tall, and bushy as hell. It's like the chickens that are bred for the restaurant trade...they can hardly walk and are fully grown in less than 2 months. It's getting increasingly difficult to get a pure strain that hasn't been changed into something man made. All of my genetics are either from the original 40 year old seeds that are getting very hard to pop anymore, or from the occasional flower that pops up on a female. Luckily I still have the seeds from long ago, but it looks like it might be getting to the point that I have to use Silver to keep the genetics going without getting turned into something different.
It's getting increasingly difficult to get a pure strain that hasn't been changed into something man made.
You've never grown a cultivar untouched by the human hand. Pure landrace genetics are generally trash in terms of the qualities we value. They take TONS of work to get to a useable state. Even beans from the 70s were HEAVILY worked by cultivators.
Old is not another word for better. Natural is not another word for better. The work we've done to improve the cannabis plant is just that - Improvement.