Feminized seeds. How are female seeds guaranteed?

zander19

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Have been buying feminized seeds and am interested to find out how it works? Can anyone give a general overview?
 

fridayfishfry

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the female plants are artificially stressed untill they produce male flowers late in flowering. this is not to be confused with genetic hermies. things that will make a regular female produce male flowers in late flowering: a product called reverse is said to do the job it's made by some dutch nutrient company, there is a flowering hormone that will do it, these both ruin your buds, for me flushing wrong(?) worked (the ph became really high) this was in hydro DWC. I didn't get any seeds from it because i chopped them right away.
 
Have been buying feminized seeds and am interested to find out how it works? Can anyone give a general overview?
you contact the person or company selling feminized seeds, work out an arrangement of payment and you get your seeds, pretty the same everywhere and not just to do with feminized seeds.
 

CaretakerDad

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Have been buying feminized seeds and am interested to find out how it works? Can anyone give a general overview?
Feminized seeds are made in the following manner. 2 identical clones are selected for seed production. The first plant is sprayed 1 - 2 times daily starting a few days BEFORE you put it into 12/12 with a solution called colloidal silver (here is a link to a tutorial I produced that shows you how to make your own CS https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/773401-90-minute-colloidal-silver-production.html#post10029551 ). This is continued for about 3 weeks when the plant will begin to produce FEMALE POLLEN. The second plant is also put into flower a few days after the first plant and is subsequently pollinated with the pollen from the first plant.

THIS IS NOT to be confused with hermaphroditism which can occur when a plant that already has the recessive gene is stressed and responds by producing actual pollen which retains this genetic trait and is passed to future generations.

The application of colloidal silver inhibits the production of ethylene which is necessary for making female reproductive organs in cannabis. The plant is genetically programmed to reproduce under conditions of less than 14 hours of light per day and when it cannot make pistils, resorts to producing "pollen sacs". It DOES NOT however contain any male chromosomes and CANNOT produce seeds that will be male ONLY FEMALE. These plants will also have less genetic variation between them than plants pollinated in the regular fashion and therefore in most cases will be phenotypically similar.....they will look, grow, and taste alike. Good Luck and Happy Growing :bigjoint:
 

CaretakerDad

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the female plants are artificially stressed untill they produce male flowers late in flowering. this is not to be confused with genetic hermies. things that will make a regular female produce male flowers in late flowering: a product called reverse is said to do the job it's made by some dutch nutrient company, there is a flowering hormone that will do it, these both ruin your buds, for me flushing wrong(?) worked (the ph became really high) this was in hydro DWC. I didn't get any seeds from it because i chopped them right away.
As a public service announcement please let me advise folks NOT TO CONSUME cannabis after it has been treated with colloidal silver or any other compound intended to produce female pollen, it is simply not safe. Colloidal silver is applied topically and is not taken in through the root system and therefore CANNOT BE FLUSHED from the buds.

People wishing to conduct experiments on their cannabis with chemicals that are to be ingested by others, particularly medical users, should be responsible and completely forthcoming about how they are applied. :cuss:
 
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