feminized seeds? your experiences

[FunkBomb]

My last two runs I've been using CH9 Female Seeds. They have wonderful hybrid vigor and I have yet to see any hermies. Not to mention they are cheap and effective.

-Funk

 

[Shady Smoka]

Feminized seeds should be banned and the asshole that first came up with the idea should be shot.

That's absolutey ridiculous. Some people don't have the room to start out 10 seeds in hopes of a few females.

 

[zen_trikester]

another question has anyone ever made a mother plant from feminized seeds

Yes and I have 2 of 7 moms that started as fem seeds and are 2 of my faves.

If you want to know about Fem seeds just buy a few. Too many people think they know based on what others have told them. Or maybe they tried one early in their grow before they knew how to keep their garden properly and stressed a fem seed into a hermi because they sucked.

Just as it is with m/f breeding it is all about the breeder who is selling the beans and certainly the luck of the draw. That is what decides the quality of smoke you get from any bean. You can get different expressions of the genes with different breeding parents (MxF vs FxF vs Selfing), but there is nothing that says in stone that one will be better than another. Each is it's own genetic milkshake!

If it was more typical in the plant world to have both separate male and female plants of a species, then we would know a lot more about this, because it would be a common way to get all pink roses or something! But since it is not common, there is a lot of stoner science involved when it comes to opinions on femed seeds.

Truth is, there are plenty of people satisfied enough with their fem seeds that nearly all breeders are making them and they make up a very large portion of the market share. If they were disastrous hermi producing hemp, nobody would buy them and we would never see them at seed banks and we would never be reading this thread.

 

[zen_trikester]

I've tried to grow feminized god bud twice and when i started flowering they gave me male flowers early on so i get rid of them am i doing something wrong or just beeing to hasty.i would appreciate all feed back i can get thank you

Ha ha ha! Didn't realize until now that this thread was brought back from the dead!

Have you ever grown before? there are lots of things that can cause a hermi.

Are you sure you know what male flowers look like? Many people who aren't used to looking at early flowers think they know what male and female preflowers are but they are wrong. I've seen people point out forming calyxes as male flowers and have seen people grow 4' tall males thinking even well into flowering that they had females. Ha!

Was this from a reputable breeder and seedbank?

this is the kind of stuff that helps perpetuate the misconceptions of femmed seeds. People see a post like this and then just assume it is another case of femmed seeds being crap when in truth there is probably a lot more to the story.

 

[JWP]

This is an old thread. Making use of the search feature i see dadda j

heres a quote from chimera of chimera seeds. i got it out of high times march 07 in the jorge's rx section:

some growers intentionally use the pollen from intersex(hermaphrodite) plants to fertilize females. they've found that the seeds and subsequent offspring produced from this union will be predominately female. the major problem with this technique is that these plants will have intersex tendacies. by selecting parent plants that have intersex tendacies, we ensure that some of the progeny will also have intersex tendacies. using pollen from an intersex or hermaphrodite plant is an intentional selection for intersexuality- like begets like.

hope that clears things up.

I like this quote. Seriously how many people buying female seeds know enough about breeding to know what to look for? Then how many of this small percentage actually contact the breeders about their breeding practices before a purchase?

If people havnt noticed allready i'm really agaisnt female seeds. If someone showed me that they used an AA true female then i wouldnt be so against that particular line. BUT +80% all all female seeds out there are made with intersex plants. It sickens me, cull em all...

That's absolutey ridiculous. Some people don't have the room to start out 10 seeds in hopes of a few females.

If you think your lack of growing space is justification for the pollution of the global cannabis gene pool with intersex genes then maybe you should just start with clones.

 

[Dr.Dank]

I just recently got 2 hermies on 6 seeds of Sour KUSH aka Headband and it sucked... I had good experience with fem seeds tho so not all but some you cant risk..
is it worth it fucking up your crop? no.

 

[Baba Ku]

The more people who truly understand about cannabis breeding, the fewer people that will be consumed by these unfounded myths and bullshit stories about feminized seeds.

The person who thinks Mohan Ram should be shot has their head up their ass. He and his teams are some of the top contributors to the world of cannabis. Make no mistake, he is right and you folks are completely wrong and without one little bit of foundation.
Your gut feeling does not count for one bit of anything here.

You do realize that the Earth is indeed round, and you won't really fall off the edge...yes?

 

[sutra1]

I'm strictly an outdoor grower. For the last three seasons I've used a mix of femmed & regular seeds. AI femmed, Wonder Woman femmed, White Rhino femmed, no hermi, no issues that can be related to the fact they were feminized plants. I have plots so far out in the sticks I only visit two-three times a season. For a gorilla (beats chest) grower they are a goddess send, for obvious reasons.

 

[bigAl25]

I have had very good experience with Nirvana femmed AK48, great smoke and covered in trichs. Got a cherry ludens fruit smell on them. Nirvana bubblelicious sweet smoke good tric coverage, nice buds, great cured smoke. Also OGR strawberry bubba kush. I have only one room to grow in so fem seeds work out great. Later on I'll tell you how the blue mystic femmed and snow white femmed turn out. I have had great results, organic soil, fox farm nutes and two 400 watt lamps MH/HPS each.

 

[zachrockbadenof]

we have grown 2 'fem;d' seeds.. an abusive kush , and a basic kush.. both from rezdog

we popped 5 of the abusive, and was 5 for 5 all fems

we popped 9 of the basic kush and was 9 for 9... all males...not hermies... full blown males... balls everywhere... the 10th seed was a fem, but sux'd so we let it go...

so i guess we are batting 500...

 

[sallyforthDeleted member 75382]

Excellent results from female seeds....ice and grapefruit...not one out of twenty plants produced any hermie traits. Also trainwreck from greenhouse were excellent ( apart from yield...should of vegged longer ).

Dutch Passion Durban Poison was a nightmare....every plant hermied and I had a thousand hermie seeds.....but that was about ten years ago, dunno what they are like now....kind of put off.

 

[zen_trikester]

This is an old thread. Making use of the search feature i see dadda j



I like this quote. Seriously how many people buying female seeds know enough about breeding to know what to look for? Then how many of this small percentage actually contact the breeders about their breeding practices before a purchase?

If people havnt noticed allready i'm really agaisnt female seeds. If someone showed me that they used an AA true female then i wouldnt be so against that particular line. BUT +80% all all female seeds out there are made with intersex plants. It sickens me, cull em all...




If you think your lack of growing space is justification for the pollution of the global cannabis gene pool with intersex genes then maybe you should just start with clones.

Most people just care what they get to smoke and don't give a shit about theories and wives tales that tell them they shouldn't be happy with the bomb ass smoke they just grew from a femmed seed!

How does a hermi screw your garden? If it is just a couple of nanners it won't be enough to mess up shit, and if it is a full blown lady gaga show then a grower who doesn't have his head in his ass will be aware and pull the hermi's out. Feminizing seeds doesn't make seeds go hermi... bad growing environments and bad genetics make plants hermi.

and what is this ruining the genepool thing? come on... That's stretching it out a little bit! I would not doubt that a series of fem x fem breedings could change the gene pool of that plant but I would be real interested to know how that effects the cannabis genus as a whole! That's a joke right? Ha ha ha.

 

[zachrockbadenof]

Feminizing seeds doesn't make seeds go hermi... bad growing environments and bad genetics make plants hermi.

probably true in most cases... in ours, the basic was running rite next to our abusive fem's + other regular seeds.. the only plant to turn was the 'fem;d' basic kush... and it was a full blown male..

now if it happened once maybe it was grower error, but it happened in 3 separate grows... 3 seeds each grow...

gotta believe they were fuk'd up seeds for some reason....

 

[zen_trikester]

probably true in most cases... in ours, the basic was running rite next to our abusive fem's + other regular seeds.. the only plant to turn was the 'fem;d' basic kush... and it was a full blown male..

now if it happened once maybe it was grower error, but it happened in 3 separate grows... 3 seeds each grow...

gotta believe they were fuk'd up seeds for some reason....

It happens for sure with fem seeds, but it happens with reg seeds too. all about who bred them and the genetics. Simply making fem seeds doesn't make them go hermi. If you were doing side by sides then you were probably good and the genetics were not.

 

[Cristalin'bud]

feminized seeds


Ciao

 

[KosmoKramer]

My fantastic C99 was from femmed seeds I believe. Was gifted the cut, but I'm almost positive it was femmed. She's been stressed from hell to high water and never thrown a nanner EVER! Light stressed, nute stressed, pH stressed you name it.

Then again I grew out some Grapevine seeds that threw nanners like fuckin crazy. Those were all non-femmed. Checked and rechecked the grow area and found zero reasons for the hermies (light leaks, ect). Lets just say the whole lot went in the trash (over $200 worth)!

I'd go with a reputable breeder if your going to go femmed. Most are usually pretty stable, will get 90%+ females most of the time.

One word of warning is to watch them closely while flowering. If they are going to hermie it should be within the first 2-3 weeks. Anything later than that and they will probably be tossing sterile pollen. See nut sacks, discard IMMEDIATELY!

Personally I don't want ANYTHING that has the possibility of throwing nanners. Thats why I stay away from strains and breeders known for having hermie traits. Won't mention any names but someone in this thread already did!

 

[mrwags]

Excellent results from female seeds....ice and grapefruit...not one out of twenty plants produced any hermie traits.

Like anything else in life it's a matter of the breeder imho. I have popped over a thousand Female Seeds NL beans in my day and have only had ONE hermire do to a light leak. How do I know it was a light leak you ask? Because b4 I cut it I to a cut and cloned it and put it right back in the same bucket it came from during the same run,covered up the RED LIGHT on my power strip and she grew out FEMALE.

I was growing Female Seeds Nl beans LONG b4 they were cool and somewhat accepted. I over the years have had received cuts of the finest there are to offer and can say beyond a reasonable doubt they hold their own VERY WELL.

BUT let's look at this from the perspective I have had for years now.

ANY female seed that gets new growers involved in the craft is a good thing BUT with money involved many have jumped on the band wagon and made some pretty shitty beans and that is NOT a good thing but like anything else in life when you have greed you have shitty products.

I can grow out a dozen Female Seeds Nl beans with the cost of nutes included for what I could pay for a dozen of the top shelf beans only and get 50% Females if I'm lucky.

Most new growers don't know what to look for when it comes to sexing and by the time it's discovered the whole damn run is lost.

So I say as long as they are GOOD one's yes they serve a valuable service the part about not breaking the bank to get them is a bonus as well.

JWP I would like to buy you a pack of the Teams Pure Indica. I would like you or someone you know to grow them out and then let me know what you think. I respect your opinion and trust me I would NEVER waste your time.

Female Seeds NL are simply that good.

Be Well All
Mr.Wags

 

[Shady Smoka]

If you think your lack of growing space is justification for the pollution of the global cannabis gene pool with intersex genes then maybe you should just start with clones.

Man, what an ignorant statement to make. Not every one has clones at their disposal. We don't all live in Cali

And how the fuck am I "polluting the cannabis gene pool" with my modest 2'x4 closet garden? Sure, MAYBE commercial breeders shouldn't use femmed seeds as parents but I'm just a small time grower with room for a small amount of plants.

 

[Govinda]

The art of feminizing cannabis has improved drastically over the last decade. Go with long-time producers such as female seeds and you'll be A-OK.

 

[NPK]

I've only purchased female seeds once--Killing Fields from a Dutch breeder named Sann1e--and they're working out beautifully. All the other female seeds I've grown out were the odd ones that popped up in my bud. Those are always little gifts: I love finding a seed or three in excellent weed, because they're guaranteed girls that enable me to grow more of the same.

Following the directions in the colloidal silver thread, I made a batch of my own female seeds a couple of years ago--a cross between a local clone-only strain called Hindu Skunk and MOD's fantastic Dream Goddess. I haven't grown 'em yet myself, but everyone I gifted some to was stoked with the results. They're next on my rotation.

JUST SAY YES to female seeds!