2 years ago-
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Why not try again, maybe it’ll let me post this time…
A quick primer, which gets quicker every time…
Normal seeds are made by combining male pollen with female flowers and result in seeds with equal male and female genes being passed on. Which also makes breeding hard because we can’t properly apply selective pressure to the males, we have to guess which we think will be the best or we end up with piles of seeds to test and sort through with takes up too much time/space/money for underground breeders/pollen chuckers to do their thing.
Putting their brains together growers figured out ways to make female plants turn intersexed, that is to grow male flowers on female plants which does two things; first we can easily apply selective pressure as we know which are the good/bad females by sampling them directly instead of having to make seeds, grow those out and then evaluate. Secondly it means the pollen only has female genes, so the seeds are 99% female with the odd hermaphrodite. We’ll go over how their made next and lastly what they are/aren’t, assuming this actually posts that is…
Edited to add: If anyone has any questions about this please respond to this post specifically to see if we can keep this thread organized instead of posts in random order. Use the “reply” button in the top corner of this post to reply to it specifically, instead of the reply space at the bottom, in case anyone doesn’t know how to reply to a specific message and not just the thread.
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