Spraying diluted silver onto a plant is no anywhere near the same thing as what Monsanto does/has done.
People need to look into actual genetics. Spraying the plant to change it's sex has nothing at all to do with genetic modification. You are basically fucking with it's hormones, not it's genes. There is a huge difference between manipulating hormonal response and making lettuce produce scorpion venom as it grows.
I'll say it again the easiest way to understand this is to look at human trannies, they don't change their genetic code they are still XY they fuck with their hormones to the point of losing muscle mass and bone density and produce female breasts and lose male hair. This is a far more drastic change then sexing a few limbs on a plant and it is not genetic modification.
Monsanto is fucking evil, not arguing that at all, I just want people to wake up and stop saying femmed seeds are even close to being in the same league as GMO. Female seeds have nothing to do with Genetics as far as we know. If you can find a source that states selfing a plant changes it's genetic structure I would love to see it, I am sure there will be studies in the future, I haven't looked but I doubt the science has been done. Until then I believe genetics are genetics and hormones are hormones, the two things are not the same.
* I am no where near educated on genetics to a sufficient degree, but I have studied breeding all sorts of lizards lol
Genetics are genetics for the most part, recessive/dominant traits are found in everything. I believe these are more to blame then the sex of a plant being manipulated, if femmed plants produced more hermies it would be evident at a much larger scale.
If you have a pack of 10 seeds reg 4-5 males femmed 10-10 females. You are going to notice more hermies in the females you grow out then you notice on the males you tossed. If this makes any sense.
I personally believe the chances of hermies are pretty even if using proper breeding practices.
