Males "never" prduce seeds...just as the male gender in the animal kingdom, they don't posess the right 'equiptment'..
"Feminizing" seeds should absolutely be left to only the most experienced breeders with an indepth understanding of genetics. Light stressing a plant to express it's hermie genetics/tendency, Then useing that pollen to pollinate, only serves to "promote" the hermie genetics. "Reversed" pollen should only be used on
proven 100% females, with
NO hermie tendencies.
By stressing, you/ve proven that the tendency is there...by
breeding it into the strain, you've further promoted it following generations.
I think I've posted this a dozenn times,..."Hermies are the greatest threat to the promotion of drug quality MJ,
"IMHO". Whenever mj is left to grow ferral, within a few generations, it will revert to hemp. Why?...one belief is because 'early flowering' males and hermophradites dominate the pollination process if not controlled. Once inbedded in the genes, the hermi is
very difficult to eliminate, at best.
Leave feminising to the pro's..Please, for the sake of those who have spent years promoting high grade quality MJ.
A few weeks back, we had a member that believed that
"all" breeding should be done only by professionals to avoid the promotion of weak, less desirable product. He believed 'only' they possessed the kknowledge, ability and space to grow and select the best possible specimens to further enhance/improve the strain, and that we as "seedmakers" are doing little but degradeing the genetics by makeing random crosses and breeding without an established "selection process".
I won't go THAT far, but there is a thread of truth in his thinking. "I" personally love F1 hybrids. The hybred vigor often produces exceptional plants. BUT..."seedmakers" that think/believe they are makeing a
new strain with simple crosses, or even with a cpl generations of back breeding, are probably detrimental to the cause. "I" feel if you're doing it with a selection process in place, and are not "selling" or representing them as a stabalized strain, but as what they are, a "seedmaker" experimenting, there is little harm.