Oh my oh my there has been tests after tests comparing Fems vs Reg although Fem were introduced to by pass the males but its also created many issues to give you a better percentage of female to make ratio
Since the introduction of feminized seeds there has been a steady increase in Herm/ nanner's
Fems do have there advantage for the novice grower that does not have to worry about male plants OH snap wait a minute or do they ???
We get the same story all the time you get hermies from reg beans also lol truthfully speaking i call BS on that you get a good hybrid male and female strain cross them and they will not hermie , have solid strains now and have tried to hermie them i am talking temps that almost boil them light off for a week on non stop off and on temps as cold as almost freezing and guess what NOT a Hermie nanner nothing
do this to 90 percent of a fem seed line and you got serious issues
Most importantly is now for that commercial grower ??? you know them ones growing 2000- 5000 plant grows ???? with large investments tied to it ??? whats the odds of failure with just that 10 percent the flipped to male???
Or produced nanner's etc at what cost does a person say
5 - 6 weeks veg on normal reg seeds cull true males keep true females clone and your off to the races
Also people tend to forget what has truly happened with that selfed feminized seeds
is just that half of the Genetic material is gone that fem seed genetic code is bottle necked
and only the actual breeder has the code or key..
the plant can only identify and attack pathogens and disease that it knows any new pathogens or disease will in fact kill it as it can not evolve like mother nature intended in all species of life
also with feminized seeds is it has greater chances to mutate or like many people have noticed deformed leaf pattern etc ,,,, If you do not believe me be more then happy to post links from the internet thousands of issues more then reg seeds
Feminized seeds is a abomination of the marijuana seed pool no different what so many hate Monsanto close you think ????i think ???
bottom line there are plus and minus of both reg and fem beans ,, but to say Fem is better is just plain wrong ,, its all about money and greed in today's breeding circle thanks to the Dutch
Breeders were forced to start there fem programs to keep up with sales and keep there customers and also lure in more ..
At the End of the day the real top end breeders are in search of non touched sativas , and indicas and keeping them in original form
As most original land races start getting bastardized in there original habitat which has already started in places like Jamaica , Mexico and many more areas
This will eventually lead to a major decline in over all natural seed populations ,,
When will we as Humans realize everything we touch we tend to ruin
WAKE UP FOLKS