I would like to throw a little tip out there for you guy's, that are having a dominant male issue with your regular seeds.
On your next pack you pop, try this and just trust me on it... Yeah, I know, trust is a gamble, but I promise you my advice will make you a happier individual IF you are indeed looking for more females.
A long time ago, before I started heeding to my own personal experiences, depending on my personal experience, I read lots of books on growing.
I forget which books, but have read in multiple books and even from online experimentations, that ---> seedlings exposed to higher levels of nitrogen from the day it germinates to around the end of its first 2 weeks of life, have an INCREASED chance of becoming females during sexual exposure <---....
Yeah I know, sounds like an old wives tell, but ladies and gentlemen I decided to heed to that advice one day and experiment for myself. Since the first time I have tried it, I have never looked back.
Now in my experience this is what I do, personally...
I used to soak the seeds in bottled water mixed with a drop of superthrive, (since they have changed their formula a few years ago I stopped doing that and "don't really know why", but now I just soak them in distilled water now.) I knew that superthrive contained trace amounts of nitrogen and growth hormones "auxins" so I thought to myself, this way the seed will even soak and pop its little tail into a nice, weak, but appropriate diluted low dose amount of N. Even if it is just receiving "trace" amounts that increased "higher levels of exposure".
Anyway... After soaking my seeds in the distilled water, I plant directly into promix, into nursery flats. My solution that I soak the medium in consists of a half serving of "Real Growers Recharge" which contains a nice mix of mycorrhiza, kelp, carbohydrates, aminos and fulvic/humic acid and it comes with a guarantee to NOT burn or harm plants period, no matter what dose you give them in ANY stage of growth and this is true because I use the living shit out of it lol. I can't recommend this product enough, please look it up on Google and reviews as well. Its a miracle creation...
So I mix the recharge with a VERY light dose of whatever base nutrient for veg I am using (currently AN Sensi Grow a&b) at about 2 to 3 ml each per gallon of water. This way they will receive traces of nitrogen early on and also there is no risk of burn. From that point forward I always just add the same amount of products to the water, every time the youngins are needing a drink in the first week. Then up the dose (N) again by a (ml) after the first week.
Now where I really focus on giving the maximum amount of nitrogen that they can consume without problems, is with foiliar feeds. Every other day I mix a small amount of fertilizer in a spray bottle, just a pinch that contains a fast acting easily absorbed nitrogen such as fish emulsion, liquid sea weed juice (kelp extract), or hell even miracle grow will work for this if your a poor boy or newbie just getting started. Just go low on your dose and play it smart. Continue to do this for the first 2 and a half or three weeks of veg if you want, dollar feeds DO work and they do give extremely fast results overnight... I just took at fed my clones night before yesterday with Earth Juice Sea Blast Grow, Epsom salts and a little bit of seaweed juice and they literally grew 3 inches by yesterday morning. Also I read that along with seedlings exposed to higher levels of nitrogen, that higher humidity plays a role in this method as well.
I have pretty much increased my M to F ratio from around 40% male - 60% female to more like 60-70% female to 40-30% male. Even though the difference is not huge "well it kinda is", it is a HUGE enormous help for us in favor of seeking females vs males and this does work for me... Has since they day I tried it out.
Try it yourselves and see...
Or if you would rather wait or you are suspicious of my recommendation, then just give it a bit and wait until my seedlings show sex and see that more than likely I will have better results getting gals than most people popping them straight into the medium with no added nitrogen, whatsoever. I have 20 seedlings that I can document and I will throw up the results when pre flowers come around. Well two of those are fem beans, so lets see how many fems I get out of 18... Ha, unless I jinx myself with this post...
Unfortunately, that seems to happen too....