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Originally Posted by urgr8estfear
Diner is being served! 
I'm in no way offended....but you just lost your money.
I thought about it long before I spoke, but then again how could I expect you to know that?
Anyway, I still 'command : VOTE KICK HERMIES' any day of the week.
Bad genetics are the original cause of hermies.
'Stress' as people call it, simpy acts as a trigger for symptoms.
Plants with good genetics you could beat to a pulp and they'd still not go hermie on you.
So Sikabuyin should get some good seeds, reset his grow, and induldge himself in his next grow adventure.
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So are u sticking by your claim that hermies breed hermies 100% of the time???
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Originally Posted by urgr8estfear
Bad news buddy, hermies breed hermies!
So that's no homemade feminized seed you got there.....  |
Because your rush to judgment on the subject is what I was talking about. When u told me the sap on the first plant I ever topped was a HUGE problem I almost shit myself lol but it turned out to be fine, there was another example of a post u made where u rushed to judgment and ended up being wrong but I forget now. . . It is documented here on GC and apparently in the Mel Frank Book about hermies and females, is it not??
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Originally Posted by sneakers
Hermie pollen + 100% female plant = 99.9% chance of a female seed according to many of the threads here.
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Originally Posted by SmknVTEC
That quote you quoted from me I wrote verbatim from Mel Frank's book so in theory your seed should be 99% feminized. Treat her right [like you are] and I would be surprised if there was a problem.
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Do you have any documentation to the contrary besides ur personal opinion?? I WOULD like to see it and if you DO have some that might have been more helpful to a new grower than just saying "ur screwed dude" its the tone u use and used with me that seems to indicate you find pleasure in telling ppl they're "screwed" this is why I felt a need to stand up and reassure dude that just cuz u say hes screwed doesnt mean he necessarily is.
As VTEC said u didnt even know for sure if it was hermie and you were already gloating lol. Just another example of u rushing to judgment in my opinion. If it turned out male would u have said "oops I was wrong"??? No matter, I am not one to argue like this - I just wanted to make my point clear that it wasn't about whether or not u were right (I personally have NO IDEA about breeding hermie seeds and NEVER claimed to) its just the overzealous way you seem ot burst others bubbles so hastily that bothers me. If you are going to sink someones hopes about something, For god sakes make sure you know what you are talking about, which AT LEAST in my case with the sap after topping U didn't.
nuff said. Oh, and dinner has two 'n's
{EDIT} Some more info on hermies, dont quote me on it
Hermies all depend on the method of hermaphroditism.
If a strain, like Thais, or some good africans have hermie genetics, they sometimes have hermies "just pop up from nowhere." Really, if one is breeding, they really should discard ALL hermies, as these are really genetically inferior, as "mixed sex." Think of all the plants that can be solidly determined to be male OR female. That's what you want. Even plants down the line can show up with "he/shes" of varying degrees generations later. This kind of hermie is BAD. Grow it out, if you like, their good smoke, no doubt.
If you force a plant to hermie from chemical means, like Silver/STS, then these so-called "hermies" really aren't. These "hermies" turn out to produce 100% female seeds. This is the technique actual scientists use for experiments. Like real botanists. That know what they're doing! This technique is peer-reviewed and PROVEN. Anyone who tells you different, just doesn't know what they're talking about (period).
If someone says "just wait until late in flowering..." That's a bad hermie. Really, what seed companies do tell you how they make their female seeds? And why not?
Sure, some people won't like this answer, some will say that STS is carcinogenic (a lie), or poison you don't want in your smoke. The fact is, there won't be enough silver in such a seed to be even measurable in a grown out plant. These people could often be taken as flakes, but I'll just leave them as "misinformed," or mistaken.