feminizing seeds.

I have a superskunk hermie motherplant.
Im now playing with the thoughts of make feminised seeds.
I have to put the motherplant to flower now couse she so huge that she uses half the growroom.
I will take some cuttings of her and save until i have another good female.
I wonder which strain i have to cross it with but any ideas are welcome.
The superskunk itself was really good and very tasty so i want something sweet stuff.
I love heavy stoned stuff.

Some gorgeous buds there, FD

I would have been interested to see the extent of the hermaphrodism, but it goes without saying that you had to remove the staminate flowers.

It's nice to see that they didn't grow back. How many male flowers were there on the big plant, anyway?

And were any seeds produced at all? You should be on the lookout for the odd seed or two per plant. They may give interesting results when grown. In the case of self-pollination, they should turn into exact copies of the parent plant (with the same tendency to turn hermaphrodite).

Originally posted by Fuzzy Dunlop i was thinking of cross the herm with another sensistrain to get feminised seeds.Selfpollination will give me herm seeds as far as i know but if i cross the superskunk herm with ex.big bud female it will be only feminised seeds on the bigbud plant.. Is that right?

Not exactly. Feminised seeds are hermaphrodite seeds, even when you buy them from a breeder. They are perhaps less likely to turn than a self-pollinating hermaphrodite (depends on how easily the parent turned), but they definitely tend towards hermaphrodism. This is why not too many breeders produce them.

Self-pollinated seeds will usually turn hermaphrodite in the same circumstances or at the same stage of growth as their parent.

Feminised seeds may follow the pattern of the hermaphrodite parent, may express hermaphrodism as a result of different factors (stress, irregularity, cutting) or may not turn.

It is hard to predict how likely feminised seeds are to turn. They can inherit the tendency from either parent - or possibly both (I'll have to read up on genetics for a definite answer to that).

Also, since all cannabis has the ability to turn, the 'pure' female parent of a feminised cross may also have a tendency towards hermaphrodism to pass on to its offspring.

Chances are that this will not be a strong tendency, but it's hard to be sure (unless you have grown many clones of that female and are confident that she's not prone to flipping out).

Feminised seeds are not the same thing as self-pollinated hermaphrodite seeds, but they're not enormously different either. In some ways, feminised are less predictable.

For instance, if I had a female that was prone to putting out a few 'bananas' (tiny male flowers, often consisting of a single pollen-distributing anther) when flowered a few weeks longer than normal, I'd be much more interested in using self-pollinated seeds from this plant than feminised seeds.

Self-pollinated seeds from a plant like this should turn into exact copies of the parent, with the same tendency towards limited hermaphrodism.

To be strictly accurate, feminised seeds might better be described as hermaphrodised seeds. But you can see that these wouldn't sell quite so well.