My feminised seed became a male!!

**purplebud27** · 07-15-2009, 03:15 PM

Ya I got some fem seeds now I am not so sure if I want to plant them

**Mindmelted** · 07-15-2009, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by purplebud27

Ya I got some fem seeds now I am not so sure if I want to plant them

Plant them,you will be fine.Most the time it is the growers fault

**purplebud27** · 07-15-2009, 04:07 PM

So I take it the more stress the more of a chance it will be male or herm

**nissanchris760** · 07-18-2009, 10:27 PM

Tell me what I did wrong, I've been growing for almost ten years now, had good previous expeirence before with fem seeds, have made my own and they worked 100%. This time I bought these seeds in order to get a new strain and I grew them side by side with fem master kush x skunk a buddy made with 100% sucess. All were sprouted in peat pellets under fluroesent 100watts, put in light warrior at 1 week,put under 400 watt metal halide, feed kelp extract, transplanted to 8 inch square containers @ 3 weeks filled with light warrior/oceanforest 50 50, feed with high P bat guano and flipped to 12/12 @ 5 weeks, plants were almost 2 feet tall, one was almost 3 feet tall, very busy and thick stems,, about 5 days into flower 4 developed male pollen sacks on all budding sights. No femlae pistels in sight. The whole time my grow tent was about 80 degrees day, 70 degrees night, I ran co2 @ about 875 parts per million. Never had power outage, and never had a hot spike past 85 degrees. All master kush x skunk was female. Tell me what I did wrong to get males from "feminized seed"

**Space Angel** · 07-19-2009, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by purplebud27

So I take it the more stress the more of a chance it will be male or herm

this is so true!!! I had an experience from a breeder one time. i ordered 10 femies and only 3 made it to female stage. I contacted the breeder and they gave me 7 more femies of my choice, and low and behold they turned out female, so what I'm saying is if you have problems with several that did not turn female, try contacting the breeder with your complaint. they don't want a bad reputation.

**Space Angel** · 07-19-2009, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by nissanchris760

Tell me what I did wrong, I've been growing for almost ten years now, had good previous expeirence before with fem seeds, have made my own and they worked 100%. This time I bought these seeds in order to get a new strain and I grew them side by side with fem master kush x skunk a buddy made with 100% sucess. All were sprouted in peat pellets under fluroesent 100watts, put in light warrior at 1 week,put under 400 watt metal halide, feed kelp extract, transplanted to 8 inch square containers @ 3 weeks filled with light warrior/oceanforest 50 50, feed with high P bat guano and flipped to 12/12 @ 5 weeks, plants were almost 2 feet tall, one was almost 3 feet tall, very busy and thick stems,, about 5 days into flower 4 developed male pollen sacks on all budding sights. No femlae pistels in sight. The whole time my grow tent was about 80 degrees day, 70 degrees night, I ran co2 @ about 875 parts per million. Never had power outage, and never had a hot spike past 85 degrees. All master kush x skunk was female. Tell me what I did wrong to get males from "feminized seed"

you're talking about indoor growing?

**Old Fat Hippy** · 07-19-2009, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by jonboy30

Dude, that sucks. But on the positive, you still have 4 more girls, right? But I know what you mean...spent like 12 bucks a bean to find out one went awry. Oh well...better hope he didnt pollenate. Put up some of the girls pics! I'm waiting for seeds in the mail as we speak for 10 fem Blue Himalaya Auto from Ministry of Cannabis and 5 fem Little Angle from Dope seeds.
Besides the male occurance, how's the grow been so far? What are you using, and when in April did they sprout?

Well...that's why a lot of experienced growers say to NOt waste money on "feminised" seeds. One out of five is likely to be male...which is pretty much true across the board with regular seeds. One out of five will be male. So....why waste the bucks?
Cool temps the first four weeks, proper pH and distilled water produce more females than males from any regular seeds.
I read that back when I first decided to grow and it seems to be true. I grew 11 plants my first grow and two were male. Second grow is nine and two were males. Close enough!

You gotta figure...Nature WANTS to ptoduce lots of plants, whatever the species. One male can burst his pollen sacs and fertilize five, six, ten females, easy. Each fertilized female will produce a gazillion seeds...which in turn will produce one male out of five...to spew pollen over another 5-10 females, forever and ever, amen.

OFH