What are you guys opinions on using feminized seeds?
I have been doing some research Female or Feminized Seeds
all that talk of hermys has got me kinda worried..
Any feedback greatly appreciated
Happy growing all

I dont know personally but I wont use them. Too expensive and I havnt heard enough about them. For all I know there might be a flaw and ill end up with 4 sprouts out of 10 seeds.

It can be worth the extra investment... considering CHRONIC sells for 300-500 $$$ per ounce

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On the other hand knowm does have a good point. you could easily make 600+ a plant making the seeds a worthwhile investment.

Thanx for the replies guys I've found everyone here to be v welcome n helpful
I guess what I really wanna know is- will the plants produced from feminized seeds be the same as a female plant from regular seeds?
I will be looking to select one good mother from a batch of 10 feminized seeds...

id say buy the feminized seeds... and if 4 out of 10 are female kill the males... MAKE SURE NO POLLEN IS SPREAD ENYWHERE be careful!
and clone the females, so you know you have females growing..

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ive been making feminized for about ten years now and never have any problems with hermies or any of that bull shit. people talk alot about hermies. but most the time their fucking up the light shced. or leaks in their grow room.

when a female stresses and produces pollen doen't mean it's a tru hermie. seed company dont use hermies thats stupid.!!!!

RODELIZATION: SOMA'S WAY TO FEMALE SEEDS

Here’s an easy, environmentally friendly method for breeding feminized seeds.

by SOMA
Wed, Jul 30, 2003 12:00 am
more: grow articles, soma, breeding, seed company, strains


Story by Soma

Creating feminized cannabis seeds is an art. Just like art, there are a few different methods of application. I have written about some of my different methods of making seeds in previous HIGH TIMES articles. I have used gibberellic acid, pH stress, light stress, and fertilizer stress to force my female plants to make seeds. All of these methods are harsh on the plants, and some, like the gibberellic acid, are not organic. In my search for cleaner, more earth-friendly ways of working with the cannabis plant, I have found a new way to make feminized seeds. Feminized seeds occur as a result of stress, rather than genetics. All cannabis plants can and will make male flowers under stress. Certain strains like a higher pH, some a lower one. Some like a lot of food, some like much less. There is quite a lot of variety in marijuana genetics, and you can’t treat every plant the same way.

It takes many harvests before you really get to know a particular strain. Just like getting to know human friends, it takes time. I have grown the same strains for close to a decade, and am truly getting to know every nuance the different plants exhibit. I can recognize them from a distance. I must say that I get a lot of help from my friends, both in making seeds and in learning new and better ways of working with this sacred plant.

I named this new method "Rodelization," after a friend who helped me realize and make use of this way of creating female seeds. After growing crop after crop of the same plants in the same conditions, I noticed that if I flowered the plants 10-14 days longer than usual, they would develop male "bananas." A male banana is a very slight male flower on a female marijuana plant that is formed because of stress. Usually they do not let out any pollen early enough to make seeds, but they sometimes do. They are a built-in safety factor so that in case of severe conditions, the plant can make sure the species is furthered.

To me, a male banana is quite a beautiful thing. It has the potential of making all female seeds. Many growers out there have male-banana phobia. They see one and have heart palpitations, they want to cut down the entire crop, or at the very least take tweezers and pluck the little yellow emergency devices out. I call them "emergency devices" because they emerge at times of stress.

In the Rodelization method, the male banana is very valuable. After growing your female plants 10-14 days longer than usual, hang them up to dry, then carefully take them off the drying lines and inspect for bananas. Each and every banana should be removed, and placed in a small bag labeled very accurately. These sealed bags can be placed in the fridge for one or two months and still remain potent.

For the next phase, you need to have a separate crop that’s already 2 1/2 weeks into flowering. Take your sealed bags of pollen out of the fridge, and proceed to impregnate your new crop of females. To do this, you must first match the female plant and the pollen from the same strain in the previous crop. Shut all the fans in the growroom down. Then take a very fine paintbrush, dip it in the bag of pollen, and paint it on the female flower. Do this to each different strain you have growing together. I have done it with up to 10 different kinds in the same room with great success.

I use the lower flowers to make seeds, leaving the top colas seedless for smoking. This method takes time (two crops), but is completely organic, and lets you have great-quality smoke at the same time you make your female seeds. If you’re one of those growers who’s never grown seeds for fear of not having something good to smoke, you will love this method.

You can also use this pollen to make new female crosses by cross-pollinating. The older females with the male bananas can be brought into the room with the younger, unpollinated females after they are three weeks into flowering. Turn all of the circulation fans on high, and the little bits of pollen will proceed to make it around the room. Do this for several days. Six to seven weeks later, you will have ripe 100% feminized seeds; not nearly as many as a male plant would make, but enough to start over somewhere else with the same genetics.

As a farmer who has been forced to move his genetics far away from where they started, I know very well the value of seeds. My friend Adam from ThSeeds in Amsterdam has a motto that I love to borrow these days: Drop seeds not bombs.

if you are looking for a good mother, i would get a standard 10 pack of seeds, grow em out until they show preflowers, keep the best female for the mother and have fun. a mother grown from a standard seed will have a better chance not to hermie from stress than a feminised seed. its really up to you personally though. if you are tight on space and can't grow a large amount of males/females to pick the best mother, fem seeds would rock. i mean grow 4-5 fem plants, keep the best looker for the mom and grow out the other few for the ganja

YES. They are worth every penny. You know exactly how many plants your going to have flowering so no guess work on how many seeds to start, you dont have to worry about an undetected male releasing pollen and ruining your sensi............. and plus when you look at prices for non fem seeds double the price in your head because half those seeds will give you NOTHING after you spend a month growing it.