greets to u all! i am thinking to grow a mother plant for clones from the feminized seeds.. any one try it? i heard that is not good to clone from fem seeds plants..if any one try it please share ur experience!
You can clone any plant you want. Being a fem makes zero difference.
That is not correct at all.
Yes you can most definitely use a feminized seedplant as a mother. And it will clone etc. just as normal.
BUT
It will carry the hermy genetics with it and therefore all clones will too.
I am not sure if clones of fem moms have a higher tendency to hermy or anything but they are hermies and you need to be aware of that.
So if you were using a feminized seedplant as a mother to take clones, beware that it could hermy at any time during the grow and pollinate your other plants. The seeds created in this manner would be hermy prone as well.
But as long as you are aware of this potential downside and do not mind it, nothing keeps you from turning a feminized seedplant into a mother.
Only autos cannot be kept in this manner, like bluntmassa mentioned, as they start flowering after a certain period of time, no matter what.
It will carry the hermy genetics with it and therefore all clones will too.
I just imagine working with these types of genetics it would happen again and again where you cross with a new strain and would have to engage in long-term work to "stablize" that new strain.
While working with stable, non-hermy genetics, would eliminate that issue alltogether.
It is my understanding that through proper selection and breeding, hermy tendencies can be "bred out" to an extent at least.
This is how I explain to myself how the Chemdawg line became and remained so popular. If the hermy tendencies had not been minimized through breeding over the years, I believe the Chemdawg genetics (OG Kush, GSC, Diesels, etc.) would not have become so popular.
Yet, after so many years of intense breeding and so many people laying their hands on these genetics and growing them, they do still hermy from time to time and people have just accepted it as part of the line it seems.
But from what I read of its history, the original Chemdawg must have been quite hermy prone and it does not look like its descendants today are exhibiting the same strength of hermy tendencies.
So it must be possible to reduce it but I am skeptical that it can be bred out completely and would bet that crosses made with such genetics would require a lot of work and larger numbers to reliably end up with "stable" phenotypes.
I just imagine working with these types of genetics it would happen again and again where you cross with a new strain and would have to engage in long-term work to "stablize" that new strain.
While working with stable, non-hermy genetics, would eliminate that issue alltogether.
I have 1 or two more white OG in veg, the one that was strongest and started flowering a few weeks ago turned out male. Hope one of the remaining two turns out female so I can make up my own mind as to the value of Chemdawg genetics. From what I read, heard, etc. I would not be convinced that it is worth the trouble and "tainting" your gene pool with hermy genetics.
But I might change my mind once I tried some I grew myself.
The stuff I sampled in the Netherlands (Casey Jones, NYC Diesel and OG Kush) were nothing to write home about and I would not take those genetics for their hermy tendencies over say MRN genetics. Well the NYC Diesel was actually quite awesome but not any more than the Jack Herrer I sampled back then...
its well known and documented that thai strains can keep their "balls" hidden up to F10 , and then bam suddenly some rezessive genes turn on and you are again at F1 - meaning hermies, of a once thought to be not hermie line
G `day B
You make some big jumps in conclusions ?
1st if Chem Dog is so herm prone , why no Chem Dog S1s all over the country side ? Its been around as a clone for 25 years . Where are all the herm seeds ?
Also why do folks reverse it to make fems if they could just wait for it to herm ?
Who can actually confirm with out doubt OG Kush is a descendant of Chem Dog ?
EB .