if you were to grow a female then stress it to become male so it produces pollen sacks then harvest those sacks and pollinate another female of the original strain and grow those seeds would all of them be female as both gene sets are female? or wld they all be mutant hermies?
A stressed female can become a hermie if it thinks its going to die without getting pollinated. Males came hermie as well. The pollen sacks on a female hermie aren't male, they don't carry the male y chromosome, the female carrys x and x sex chromosome and the male carrys x and y sex chromosome. So the pollen in the female hermies sack will be x and x. If she pollinates herself or another female with that pollen, the seeds will either be female or female hermie. Proper feminized seeds from a reputable breeder, take alot of time making and stablizing. First they have to stabilize a huge amount of plants from one particular strain, they then put all those plants into flower (male and female), separate the males and female, then put the females under high stress to try to make them hermie. The females that dont hermie are kept, and sprayed with colloidial silver (i can mind if they do other shit as will), which induces the female to produce the pollen sacks (hermie). The pollen is kept. And the breeders have to start again and stabilize another batch of high quality females, the breeders then pollinate the best of those females, from the pollen they got from the other (hermie) female pollen sacks. And walla, you have stable feminized seeds.
Do you mean if you make them yourself? If you do, they would be more prone to hermie under stress that proper feminized seeds. But they will be female or female hermies, no males.
so when you buy feminized seeds off a website or from a bank are you garuanteed 100% females as they are stabilised?
If you buy from a breeder who has a good reputation, than yes, they are feminized seeds, you might get one hermie out of maybe a hundred or so. But you can also get hermies from regular seeds, so theres no real big difference. The only difference i think would be, that regular seeds would withstand more high stress that feminized seeds.
