Seeds explained?

[stickyfly]

Fellow growers, looking for some breakdown and recommendations.

After my first grow is complete I will likely buy some seeds to fill my box unless the plants I am working with now turn out awesome(random seeds I found in a batch of Gelato and Blue Cookie I picked up). I am curious what the difference is between all of the different types of seeds and lingo that I am coming across...can someone help me out? Also what seed type would you recommend for the best grow results in a limited height environment. I am thinking of growing Cinderella 99 and Boggle Gum eventually.

Autos?
Phenos?
Femenised?
Regular?

 

[macsnax]

http://www.growweedeasy.com/

After you read up a little you will have more direct questions that people can help with.

 

[thenotsoesoteric]

Autos: (auto flower) are cultivars aka strains that flower out after they sexually mature under any amount of light, doesn't need 12/12 light, can't be cloned

regulars: refers to seeds that are both men and female

feminized: refers to seeds that are only female

Phenos: is phenotype and it refers to the observable traits of an organism, in this case the traits of pot.

 

[racerboy71]

autos are crossed with what is called ruderalis, basically i think it's russian, ditch weed.. ruderalis on it's own is very low thc, but flowers by age, usually around 30 days from seed, rather than from light period, the way photoperiod plants do.. most auto strains today are ruderalis genetics crossed to photo, which keeps the auto part of the flowering and ups the potency of a full ruderalis plant..
pheno is the traits that a seed expresses from it's parents.. seeds are like people, and even though you both may have the same parents, you might have blue eyes and blonde hair, while your brother has brown hair and brown eyes.. same with plants.. some may express more traits from one parent or another, be shorter, taller, more potent, have certain smells, etc, etc, as well as flower times.. most cannabis is no where near stable in the way say an heirloom tomato variety would give you basically all of the same looking plants from the same variety, so when you pop 10 seeds of strain x of cannabis, you might end up with 3 or 4 or more phenos of that plant, each expressing different traits from each parent.
feminzed are seeds that where hit with a chemical such as collidial sliver or one of a few others, which prohibits the hormone ethylene, which is resonsible for female flower growth, so instead, it grows male flowers where sprayed.. a breeder will take the pollen produced by the male flowers, and either hit the female flowers on the same plant, creating what is known as an s1 cross, or a self'ed 1 cross, or use the pollen or another plant, and simply create an f1 generation. filial 1.. seeds created from feminizing are about 99% or so all female seeds..
regs are just that.. seeds produced from plants that haven't been hit with any sort of chemical to produce fem'ed seeds, and the seeds will have a 50% 50% chance of being male or female..

 

[Thefarmer12]

Fellow growers, looking for some breakdown and recommendations.

After my first grow is complete I will likely buy some seeds to fill my box unless the plants I am working with now turn out awesome(random seeds I found in a batch of Gelato and Blue Cookie I picked up). I am curious what the difference is between all of the different types of seeds and lingo that I am coming across...can someone help me out? Also what seed type would you recommend for the best grow results in a limited height environment. I am thinking of growing Cinderella 99 and Boggle Gum eventually.

Autos?
Phenos?
Femenised?
Regular?

There's a massive amount of information out there so it can be overloading but I recommend reading as much as possible specifically grow journals around here from other beginners so you can get a grasp of the basics and see what other people are doing wrong. It's simple but can be over thought.

 

[stickyfly]

There's a massive amount of information out there so it can be overloading but I recommend reading as much as possible specifically grow journals around here from other beginners so you can get a grasp of the basics and see what other people are doing wrong. It's simple but can be over thought.

No doubt about the complexity and reading haha! I'm just now getting into the whole seed thing since I've got the grow setup in order for now more or less. Just thinking for the future grows. Thank you all for the responses so far.