I never said fems were the best thing since sliced bread at all, I was highly critical of the hacks who use the technique to make seeds from cuttings of well known strains like SSH, Critical Mass etc to turn an easy profit, I've been saying this for years.
What I did argue with you about and still stand by is that there is nothing wrong with the feminising process, it is a useful tool in a breeder's arsenal, but like many tools is open to abuse - I mean, you can use a hammer to build a fence but also to smash someone's head in, don't denegrate the tool just because it is open to mis-use by some people with bad motives.
The crux of the argumet we had was that you had all these strange notions about feminising changing genes and other wierd things like that. I pointed out and still point out, that all that happens when you spray silver ions on a cannabis plant is that the silver ions inhibit the ethylene hormone and this prevents the formation of female flowers.
You see, the genetic information to produce male flowers must be present within the female otherwise spraying with silver would not work.
An analogy would be the gynocomastia(sp) that bodybuilders suffer, they take so many drugs that mess with their hormones that they suffer a condition colloquially known as 'bitch tits' - proper name gynoecomastia, in short, they grow female breast tissue, many bodybuilders and steroid abusers have had to have cosmetic surgery to remove this excess breast tissue.
The drugs the bodybuilders take don't alter their dna, they just mess with their hormone levels, the genes to grow female tits must already be present.
Same thing with cannabis, spraying silver to feminise doesn't alter the plant's genes it just messes with the hormone levels which allows the male gene to express itself.
So you're quite wrong, I haven't changed my view at all.
As for your critisism of 'breeders', I'd like you to quote any instances where I have applied that tag to myself, I'm just a grower who likes to grow unusual and rare heirlooms and cross em or if I find a really good one like the Colombian Gold I make a load of seeds of it and share em with people that would appreciate and enjoy the strain or those who like me, like to dabble in making their own hybrids and would like to assess the strain for possible use in their own work.
Interesting we had a few pages of good discussion with no arguing or negativity then along comes hempy...
I dunno, some people just can't resist calling others names, it reflects on their own character flaws imho
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