In a Cannabis forum, people talk about the minutiae of Cannabis. It does get spirited but this seems pretty tame to me. IDK…if you aren’t here to talk in depth about weed whatcha here for?
Ironically, you are actively using social media to complain about social media.
Interesting, got a question for you, do you think the “sterile” plants/ clones rather than sterile can be polyploid? Hence the lower pollination/ seed number?
Obviously it will be times where the plant is just be sterile, but I have a theory:
I presume that those few seeds you did get on the next generation have the same number of chromosomes that the male and female had. Haploid/haploid or diploid/ diploid ie.
And also if you take that female that isn’t really fertile reverse and cross it by the same plant will have much more success and get a nice amount of seeds.
Possibly, sure. However I think a lot of people get polyploidy wrong, it’s a word that gets tossed around a lot but I’ve never seen a confirmed polyploid plant. I’m sure they’re out there since Cannabis is so polymorphic and breeding it is such a new endeavor, but 9/10 times someone posts a “polyploid” plant it’s just fasciated. I barely understand polyploidy myself.
I haven’t reversed plants myself yet, just started a few days ago on a clone actually, fems aren’t really usually my thing nor is breeding with infertile/less fertile plants. The whole plant in question I’m referring to only made 30 seeds when entirely pollinated…it was a big plant too. A similar fertile plant would produce thousands. Probably some cool plants in there but I wasn’t interested in furthering something with a noticeable weakness. Wish I had a better answer for ya, maybe someone with more genetics experience/knowledge can chime in.
I suppose it’s possible to find and breed with less or barely fertile plants in the hopes it’ll carry the infertility to anyone trying to “breed F2” but that also boxes the original breeder in with a shit line that can’t make seeds, shoot yourself in the foot type thing, doesn’t make sense at face value. Plus, how’s anyone gonna make a buck with a seed mother than only produces a couple dozen seeds? You’d have to charge $100/seed wholesale.
And everyone that’s tried it by doing this to that cut, has ended up with the same or even less viable seeds afterwards… I don’t know that it’s polyploid, and none of it’s history would make ya think it is, but it’s definitely an easy example of a mostly infertile plant that people try to breed with anyways and always come back without much success. Like 100 seeds on a 4-5ft plant.
When I bred dogs, we used a flashy boxer with a solid colored mate. Breeding too flashy dogs together will result in white boxers that tend to be deaf
Its the same with paint horses…certain color patterns will produce a leathal white foal which will inly live a few days.
The breeders dont necessarily tell new breeders who show up with money and want to get in the horse business.
How many strains are hermie prone? And how many people share that little tidbit of information?
Its not necessarily a trick t fuck over new breeders but it could develop into that quite easily.
Caveat emptor my friends.
I have a strain that is the most purple I’ve ever seen. And it yields great. But it does throw balls halfway through flower.
Is it worth growing? Maybe. The purple is quite incredible.
I guess people who are in it for dollars might have incentive to be less than honest but I’m just sharing and that includes sharing all the information I can.