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They’ll probably sprout, but you probably won’t know what they are. Could be fire. Could be junk hemp. Personally I avoid wasting my time with unknowns, especially with a minimum oof 4-5 months before you even will know what you have. That’s a lot of life to give up for a bag of unknowns.
Suspecting disease won’t be much of an issue–the only thing I’m aware of that can pass through seeds is latent viroids and the likelihood of getting a viroids from China (where cultivation is prohibited) is probably pretty low.
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MemberJune 12, 2024 at 8:48 am in reply to: Making Seeds from Clones to preserve geneticsYou’re referring to “selfing”? That’s where you apply a chemical (often silver thiosulfate) to one plant’s flowers, they “reverse” into male flowers producing (feminized) pollen and then you apply that pollen to another female (either a clone of itself or another female cultivar).
The results will be Feminized S1 seeds, which are basically F1’s (first filial generation, “sisters”), similar to breeding two sibling plants together. You will get a similar genetic expression from that plant as if you had bred it with a similar sibling. So in theory, about 50-75% of those seeds will be very similar to the parent(s) (not clones). In those, you’re likely to find a plant that will be close enough. 25% of those seeds will be outliers, expressing genetics from past generations rather than the parent plant.
If you want to create seeds that are near-100% identical to the parent, you’ll need to go multiple generations into probably F3’s (take the progeny from the first reversal, grow them out, find the one that’s most similar or exact to your goal plant, then reverse and breed that one to the original). Grow them out, hunt, repeat. By the time you get 3 generations in, you should have a bag of seeds that will produce progeny that are overwhelmingly similar to your goal plant, and you’ll have your genetics for storage.