I went with Short Stuff Seeds Auto#1 that arrived over Christmas, Short Stuff packed the seeds in a shit plastic box, that would and did dry the seeds out, as per usual no date on the pack,..so I treated these regular Autos seeds like they were 99 years old, and soaked in Ph water for 2 days, to re-activate any dessicated cellular embryos that would be best described are marginal life forms ....at best, it worked, it took 24 hours for the seeds to absorb water alone ..??
..after days of pissing about I got 6 of my 10 to germ, of the 6 2 boys and 4 females all true to sex, wow a breather at last.
This I wanted to cross breed with my topline Photos, that I have been growing and breeding out to F2 and F3 over the last 2-3 years, my photos are of
http://www.southernstarseeds.net an Aussie seedbank using Old Toby very fruity and in my experience 22-23% THC, and the best of the best Walter White at 24-26% THC, as a guess, and the frostiest plant ever .. as my donors.
Right now the collected seeds of the SSAuto1's are 3-4 weeks old and dried by DIY ethylene gas(seeds in a bag of apples) for 2 weeks seems to work, have soaked 25 seeds, got 20 to germ ...not bad, as already I'm picking breeding qualities like
1: Early to germ
2: Early to react to light
...and flicking the rest, I'm looking and got a very scruffy auto that the original breeder didn't like much, that is how much I can tell so far, but the sales talk does work, its fun watching a plant 2 weeks old firing of into bud already, I need to keep the VITALITY, at all costs, then again cross it with my Toby and Walter White, again as I already have F1's of that ..done last month, but this time round (F1) on the autos mistakes will show, I just need to be ready to catch them ....lol and eventually getting around to feminzing them too, my first attempt at feminizing an auto ......wait and see.
but in answering your question ...I doubt very much I have an actual need for feminzed plants, I got some royal queens that are feminzed, but I want straight no mess genetics, and hate ever getting a hermie