Feminized seed problem

divrdwn

divrdwn

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I have been having problems with some feminized seeds that my buddy and I ordered. So far I am 0-3 on the seeds coming out male. My buddy has grown two of them and they both came out female. I am not sure if it is a bad batch, or was shipped regular seeds, or maybe something in my process that I am doing to stress them into male.

I am growing them in a DWC setup using Botanicare nutes. Lighting has been under CFLs at 20/4. The plants themselves have been really healthy, so its not like I have not given them what they need to grow. The only thing out of the ordinary that I have been doing is using lime juice to reduce the PH level. I have read that others have used lime juice to lower PH, so not sure if that is the issue, and I also have two Purple Jems that I am growing and both of them are female (and have used lime juice with them).

So, any thoughts on why I seem to be producing males with feminized seeds? Is it just bad luck?
 
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rhino1111

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no idea. but just use one of ur males pollen and pollenate a couple female buds. you guys will have a good amount of seeds to work with for ur next grow, more seeds, the more chance u will get females.
 
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littledevil661

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who did you order from. you should also take pics of the seeds and send them to the place you ordered from just tel them your fem seeds arent females and leave it at that.never tell them your growing
 
divrdwn

divrdwn

Member
rhino1111 said:
no idea. but just use one of ur males pollen and pollenate a couple female buds. you guys will have a good amount of seeds to work with for ur next grow, more seeds, the more chance u will get females.
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Yeah, that's what I did with the first male. Plenty of pollen now....
 
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rhino1111

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well feminized seeds dont come out 100% female, i found out of 5 seeds that are "feminized" 1 is usually male so a 20% male rate on feminized seeds. this number can fluxuate though. i always thought myself this "feminized seeds" are bullshit. out of the 4 plants i ever grew i had 3 female and 1 male. I think if you keep soil pH acidic it encourages female development. so i keep my pH around 6.3 during veg then 6.5 flowering.
 
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Hillcrest

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SEED banks fault.
I have grown out thousands of female seeds over 15yrs and only experience 1 PURE male.
PH on its own WILL NOT create a swing to male (or vica versa), you need to alter a few other factors too.
Lime juice/citric acid is the organic PH down :) it's better for plants than standard PH down (Phosphoric/nitric acid)
It aint anything you are doing.
20% males in female seeds...... lol na.... think that claim maybe user error ;)
And just a point about ATTITUDE..... they give out just as many shite seeds as everyone else. BIG COMPANY MORE ROOM FOR ERROR.
Try these ... PICK & MIX
UK too I only use these now and with an email they'll beat any price on net. Use code FBOOK for 10% off. Ship anywhere. DISCREET
Or buy direct from breeder, that way less chance the seeds have been sat on a shelf for too long.
 
purpdaddy

purpdaddy

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Damn thats crazy i got 100% female rate from attitufe...as of now,but i know that these are humans and they can make error also.
 
jawbrodt

jawbrodt

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I'd say they gave you regular seeds, instead of fems. I REALLY doubt you could turn feminized seeds into full males, no matter how bad you stressed them, or whatever techniques were used, especially 3 in a row. Yeah, I'm pretty certain someone made a mistake, and you ended up getting regular seeds. :)
 
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