Are you asking wether its worth your time to make feminize seeds or just to buy and grow them to clone?
I dont find any downsides in performance, quality, etc from regular females VS feminized females. In an attempt to keeping this very short in explaination -there will be no discernible difference between a rooted feminized cut and a regular female cut aside from the genetics of the momma that cuts were taken from, certainly in terms of keeping them going for multiple generations. Feminized or not, the genetics and traits will be passed on by the original breeding of said female moving forward.
@HydroRed is a pro...he'll lead in you the right direction!
It would exacerbate any recessive traits in the progeny. The recessive traits may be good or bad, the issue is that they will appear more frequently in the selfed progeny vs. outcrossed progeny. The example you're referencing assumes the recessive trait is intersexing, which is bad, but that was the premise of the example. It may very well be that the trait you're looking for (good trait) may be recessive and in this instance, you'd have better luck selfing than outcrossing. What I suggest is to self the plant you want AND do a backcross with a male of a different line and decide which path was more successful.
Ahhh, good point. "Recessive" traits, not necessarily "undesirable"
Just for cloning. I have a strain where I only have one remaining fem'd seed and I'm having trouble finding anymore for sale, so I hope to clone it.
Putting all your eggs in one basket (seed) doesn't sound promising.
Agreed, hence why I've been searching for a source for more seeds to buy. Thanks to my own bone-headedness, I do have a bunch of seeds from the last grow where I had a different strain that turned out male and I didn't notice until way too late. I'm still enjoying what flower we got out of it, but the buds were seed bombs (of course) and we saved a bunch of those seeds. Might pop a few just out of curiosity to see how that turns out. The female was Vanilla Gelato, and the male was from tester beans with a cross between Overflo OG x Blue Cherries. Could have the potential to be pretty tasty.
If I was you I'd definitely pop some. Who knows you may just end up finding a keeper for your stable out of an accidental pollination. I know that I missed out on a couple of amazing plants when I first started out. After missing out like that I learned ro take cuts of anything I'm flowering from seed before I flip I ever flip. The lineage you provided seems to be pretty promising. Good luck on the hunt!
Im with you man! Ive only got two seeds of Mango Sapphire left and Humbolt is out of business. One of my favorites strains. Im gonna hopefully get them to pop and make seeds.
. For now, with success, we keep very cleanly and meticulously "cloning the clone", Dad flips the big plant and keeps the new rooted cut, rinse & repeat.
I know I'm late to chime in here, but I do notice that there is a broader range of phenotypes at F2 versus R2. JmhoI want to revisit a point I had previously made that definitely echoes these last few comments --- except in my case, we are down to an irreplaceable cut; I was always under the impression that a solid "back up plan" would be to make S1 fem seeds of this clone
for some odd reason I've always had this idea in my head, as it pertains to S1 seeds is that the progeny will closely mirror the parentage. . .. well, there's only ONE parent. I did not take into acct the "potential" unlocking of recessive (NOT necessarily undesirable) traits that I may not want to deal with
