TattooedJT
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A buddy of mine was growing some grape widow and one of them turned to a herme.those seeds would be feminized if he started it from a clone right?
A quick question about seeds
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Aberration
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Feminized seeds are what happens when you stress a female to the point that it hermies, producing female pollen, and use that pollen to pollinate another or the same female. Since the female pollen contains female chromosomes the offspring have no choice but to be female.
So the clone is not relevant, but if the hermie pollinated a female, the resulting seeds would be feminized.
A clone is simply an extension of the plant it came from.
So the clone is not relevant, but if the hermie pollinated a female, the resulting seeds would be feminized.
A clone is simply an extension of the plant it came from.
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TattooedJT
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So if he was growing a female clone and stressed it to the point of becoming a herme why wouldn't the seeds be feminized?
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TattooedJT
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I gotcha, thanks for your help!
Let me impart some further knowledge, if I may.
When a FEMALE plant hermies, regardless of clone or seed origin, there is an absence of the male chromosome in the pollen to create a male seed. It can be hermied through stress, or it can hermie because of a predisposition to do so. Either way, the seed harvested from that plant will create 99.9% females whether self pollinated, or that "female" pollen is used to pollinate another female plant... that .1% is only left open for mutation, a female plant growing 100% as a male and only showing male flowers. This plant should be culled as soon as it is confirmed as it will further mutate any other strains in which the pollen is used to fertilize other plants. Something like this, of course is rare, but the possibility exists.
When a FEMALE plant hermies, regardless of clone or seed origin, there is an absence of the male chromosome in the pollen to create a male seed. It can be hermied through stress, or it can hermie because of a predisposition to do so. Either way, the seed harvested from that plant will create 99.9% females whether self pollinated, or that "female" pollen is used to pollinate another female plant... that .1% is only left open for mutation, a female plant growing 100% as a male and only showing male flowers. This plant should be culled as soon as it is confirmed as it will further mutate any other strains in which the pollen is used to fertilize other plants. Something like this, of course is rare, but the possibility exists.
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TattooedJT
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Thanks guys! I was pretty sure the seeds would be...this is great news for my buddy.
