I don't understand feminized seeds, if you have used them please vote on this

[nastynate101]

I am about to spend extra on seeds to get some feminized seeds. Are they really females? or what is the rate of females ?

 

[tehdansauce]

they claim 90 percent will be females.

 

[msdsm39]

I am about to spend extra on seeds to get some feminized seeds. Are they really females? or what is the rate of females ?

Feminized seeds come from hermaphrodite females. When the female plant is stressed or exposed to certain substances she will produce male flowers that create pollen. The thing is is that the pollen contains only female genes, so all of the offspring (the seeds) will turn into plants that are only female. So you can grow a harvest directly from seed. There is no need to veg the plants and then flower and pick out the males.

Check out my grow. I am making feminized seeds quite by accident.

 

[FrostickZero]

there are roughly

80% - Hermis
20% - females
00% - Males

 

[msdsm39]

there are roughly

80% - Hermis
20% - females
00% - Males

did you just pull those numbers out of your ass?

 

[FrostickZero]

did you just pull those numbers out of your ass?

no, thoes are the numbers that me and my friend have gotten

 

[GregNak]

yah i dont really like the idea of feminized seeds, i have never used them though so i dont really know, i am just going from what i hear from other people

 

[edux10]

If there is any way to; you should try to locate some clones. All female no hermines (unless the mother plant was)

 

[JohnnyBravo]

there are roughly

80% - Hermis
20% - females
00% - Males

based on your numbers....People pay twice as much for seeds that are most likely gonna produce a hermie...I think not dude!!!!

 

[nastynate101]

I wish I could get female clones lol but where i live in the SW its so dry and I don't know anyone to ask its so dry, is so dry, I am getting back into the growing hobby lol

 

[buster7467]

From hearing people on here that are growing fem seeds it seems that it is around 50/50 female/hermie. You can probably get those kind of odds with just growing regular seeds. I don't think it is really worth the extra money.

 

[buster7467]

If you just order regular seeds and just sprout a few at a time then when you get a couple females then just use them for mothers. Or you can keep it going by just taking clones from clones and just keep doing it in rotation.

 

[GreenCrunchies]

I am getting some feminized bb cheese soon...I will let you know...;P I only spent 25 bucks on them so im not to worried...

 

[FrostickZero]

I wish I could get female clones lol but where i live in the SW its so dry and I don't know anyone to ask its so dry, is so dry, I am getting back into the growing hobby lol

I live between 2 towns in a traylor park and the dry season is all year around, I'm the only person in the traylor park that grow plants

 

[nastynate101]

how do you know, did you take a pole? and do they all know you are the only one?

 

[Thebot]

Feminized seeds come from hermaphrodite females. When the female plant is stressed or exposed to certain substances she will produce male flowers that create pollen. The thing is is that the pollen contains only female genes, so all of the offspring (the seeds) will turn into plants that are only female. So you can grow a harvest directly from seed. There is no need to veg the plants and then flower and pick out the males.

Check out my grow. I am making feminized seeds quite by accident.

thats not how seed banks feminize their seeds. they use some chemical formula to make an inbalance or overload or something to get all fem seeds produced. what you said is true, but when your buying them from banks its not how they are done at all.

 

[msdsm39]

thats not how seed banks feminize their seeds. they use some chemical formula to make an inbalance or overload or something to get all fem seeds produced. what you said is true, but when your buying them from banks its not how they are done at all.

Here is some more info...

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]FEMINIZE THE SEED?
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It is at this point that you may wish to create feminized seed. These F1 hybrids will be used for planting in gardens, rather than for breeding. With feminized seeds, the grower knows that every plant is female because the seeds were produced using pollen from male flowers that were induced to grow on female plants. None of the pollen contains male genetics so they grow only into female plants. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There are a number of ways to create feminized seed. These include using chemicals such as aspirin and hormones such as gibberellic acid.It is easier to breed females to females using chemically-induced or stress-induced male flowers that produce pollen on female plants (forced hermaphrodites). However, plants that are induced to produce male flowers may have a slightly higher proclivity toward hermaphroditism than the general population. Using them for breeding may be inadvertently selecting for hermaphroditism.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]After five or six generations, some of the plants might have more of a tendency towards hermaphroditism. There is little chance that plants grown from first-generation feminized seed will become hermaphroditic, so they are ideal for using in the garden. As the two lines were bred to themselves, the plants lost some of their vitality or vigor. This results from the genetic makeup becoming more homogeneous as siblings are bred to each other or progeny are backcrossed to parents. When the two lines are crossed, they produce a hybrid that will exhibit hybrid vigor. Once a desirable hybrid is created, it is possible to take cuttings from it and its clone progeny repeatedly without loss of vigor.[/FONT]

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[nastynate101]

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