No, I've never purchased or grown feminized seeds. It's just the whole hermie process, and the risk of having a hermie phenotype in the garden. Most feminized seeds are probably safe, but there's still that chance that it carries a trait that makes it easily stressed and not resistant to herm.

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Info "Feminized Seeds"

In an experiment done in 1999 we grew 15 varieties of "feminized" seeds. We started with 30 seeds per variety. The goals were: 1) to determine the percentages of female, male, and hermaphroditic plants. 2) to compare the uniformity (homogeneity) among plants from "feminized" seeds with those grown from "regular" seeds.
1. The results were excellent. Nine out of fifteen varieties had 100% female offspring. Percentages of female plants from the other 6 varieties were between 80 and 90%. These plants were all hermaphrodites, producing their male flowers at the end of their lifecycle. Seed-setting hardly took place. No males were found.
2. Approximately 70% of the plants of varieties grown from "feminized" seeds were far more uniform than plants grown from "regular" seeds of the same variety. About 20% of the varieties were a little more uniform, while in 10% of the varieties no difference in uniformity was seen.
From literature and our own findings it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. The environmental factors that influence gender are:

• a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females.
• a higher potassium concentration will give more males.
• a higher humidity will give more females.
• a lower temperature will give more females.
• more blue light will give more females.
• Fewer hours of light will give more females.

It is important to start these changes at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks, before reverting to standard conditions.
To produce our feminized seeds, we start with selected female clones. Under standard conditions these female clones do not produce any male flowers. By the method we found, we are able to have these female clones produce abundant male flowers and pollen (see photos). The pollen thus produced we use for the production of our "feminized" seeds.

whaddup! Ill-state over here. we get all kinds of people selling biester-nugs with madeup names so i dont pay too much attention when buying. but i did pick up some shit called Grape Ape a couple days ago, shit had me driving 10 under the whole way home - top notch, tasted like grape kool-aid too!

i dont really know where to get clones or seeds locally. right now i have nirvana's Northern Lights going strong, a single NY Diesel bagseed that just germed(im excited!), and a pack of Nirvana's Durban Poison seeds.

Grape Ape is pretty good, I've only had it a couple times, but not around here.




Is there any misunderstanding?

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Basically what's that stating is the fact that you have a better chance getting hermie's with regular seed than feminised seeds.

#2 explains that from their experiment in 1999, 70% of the plants of varieties grown from feminised seeds were far more uniform than plants grown from "Regular" seeds of the same variety.

No, is says that 6 of the 15 feminized strains were 100% hermies at the end of flowering, I don't see any relation to regular seeds hermie vs feminized seeds hermie.

Of course they will definately be more uniform, they are inbred, i don't negate that, but the hermie trait is still in the genes.

In a feminized breed, there is no (Y) chromosome being passed along, so there isn't any probability of a male. There is a (XX) and a (X?) Being passed along the ? Is a hermie gene, so there is the chance of them turning herm.

Well, back to the topic... I guess.

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please forgive my ignorance, do we have any med states here in the midwest??

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Nope, none that allow you to obtain your medicine.

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Yepp, Yepp, whatever, whatever.....
It's not like your gonna run out and buy feminised seeds.

I got tired of wasting 2 months of time only to find out I have males, when I used to buy regular seed.
Plus, when I grow the feminised seeds. I plant all the seeds and take
10 clones from each seed that has grown and mark them.
The one that's my strongest female with no hermie characteristics, becomes my mother.

lol yah.. most ppl dont like nascar... i used to watch it all the time... but i havnt watched one race this year... i lost interest ... but the wrc is rally racing right? ... its pretty cool but ive never sat down n really watched one b4...
ohh, im a hoosier .. so im right next door

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