feminized seeds?

happyface

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During the 1960's and 1970's some cannabis breeders took to experimenting with Colchicine. Colchicine, a powerful mutagen for both man and beast, stops cell duplication, while the cellcore duplication continues the same. The end result is a doubling or more of the chromosome set. This treatment can be beneficial to marijuana because it enforces many properties such as higher production of thc and resistance to disease. What also resulted, when gender chromosomes doubled, is that male or female chromosomes appear manifold, called Hermaphrodites. What's the plant to become? It becomes all at once. The result is called feminized or effeminate marijuana seed.
Genetically, a cannabis plant is more or less predisposed to become male or female. This is regulated by 2 chromosomes everyone knows as the X and Y chromosomes. A plant with 2 XX chromosomes becomes female. A plant with an X and Y turns into a male. Plants have hormones that regulate it's functioning, of which gender is one of those functions. The hormone balance is genetically determined, and partly influenced by environmental factors. An example is when plant roots get damaged. The roots will produce a substance that in turn slows down leaf growth. The result is male flowers. When discussing hormone balance you get FEMALE SEED or feminized marijuana: a female is a plant with XX or only female chromosomes.
When you have a seed with just X chromosomes, you are certain this seed will grow into a plant that is genetically female. To achieve the XX only plant: a female plant is forced by a hormone called Gibberellic Acid to produce male flowers, the pollen created contains only X chromosomes, when you offer this pollen to another female plant you can be absolutely certain to get seeds which are 100% XX. Once again this seed is called FEMALE SEED. Gibberellic Acid can be found in online. It takes years for an individual to achieve the proper plant hormone manipulation to get 100% female XX seed. Supplies therefore fluctuate and there are many different strains available worldwide.

id like to say i wrote this but i copy an pasted.but theres ur answer.
 

Antman

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In laymans terms, a Hermaphrodite plant pollenates a regular female plant that is in it's flowering stage, and BAMM, feminized seeds. Seeds from a Hermie plant that pollenates itself will not be "fem" seeds, they will mostly be hermie seeds.
 

l3ored

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So say you're a breeder. You make a killer strain, or you're maintaining some known varieties. Then you could use the chemical to force a hermie and pollenate with it to produce feminized seeds to distribute?


there is a thread on here about how to feminize seeds using banana peels.
I'm pretty sure thats just some douchebag duping people into making a rotting mess of their seeds in a plastic bag...
 

Antman

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So say you're a breeder. You make a killer strain, or you're maintaining some known varieties. Then you could use the chemical to force a hermie and pollenate with it to produce feminized seeds to distribute?...
Yes, do whatever you need to do to force a hermie, then take that hermie and pollenate whatever females you want with it. What you do with the feminized seeds is up to you.
 
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