Feminized Seeds

[spectrum balanced]

So I'm new to growing, and fairly recently discovered the existence of "feminized seeds" and after giving it a thought or two came to the conclusion of... why would you ever NOT go with feminized seeds? for the time, money and effort that would be spent getting a plant healthy enough to clone just to SEE if its a female, it seems like the few extra bucks spent on feminized seeds would be a hell of a lot more than worth it. Am I missing something?

spectrum balanced Reviewed by spectrum balanced on 06-29-2007. Feminized Seeds So I'm new to growing, and fairly recently discovered the existence of "feminized seeds" and after giving it a thought or two came to the conclusion of... why would you ever NOT go with feminized seeds? for the time, money and effort that would be spent getting a plant healthy enough to clone just to SEE if its a female, it seems like the few extra bucks spent on feminized seeds would be a hell of a lot more than worth it. Am I missing something? Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

why would you ever NOT go with feminized seeds? ...... Am I missing something?

Yup! You have not yet encountered the Dreaded Hermaphrodite.

Fem sees are made with a female-female cross, leaving out the Y chromosome entirely. Problem is, to get pollen from a girl, you have to force-herm her. Some strains herm easily. Some PLANTS herm differently than others. You don't know what sort or how much stress it took to herm the bitch, so you might (especially as a nOOb) accidentally re-create those conditions in your grow.

Grower Kittah sez:
Beware teh dreaded Herm!!11!

[xcrispi]

Being NOOB I'd advise against it till you can control / eliminate any and all stress in your room / enviroment . I'm getting really good at this after 18 yrs of playin and I still get a stray male flower w/ them now and then .
Peace
Crispi :jointsmile:

[spectrum balanced]

I'm still not making the connection... I figure I have a better chance of just growing a female plant than accidently recreating the proper conditions to induce a herm. I'm growin with bag seed right now just for the sake of gaining experience. I have regular Easy Sativa seeds germinating. I figured I would grow the ES, clone and flower the bag seed plants see what I got, and order some fem seeds. I guess everything you guys said still stands...

[spectrum balanced]

I didn't differentiate, but I'm talking strickly about ordering femenized seeds from a reliable source.

[xcrispi]

Only takes 1 real pissed off hermie plant to polenate an entire grow . Then everything has tonsa seeds .
Crispi :jointsmile:

[spectrum balanced]

ok one last time and i sincerely appologize for my slow dim wittedness; feminized seeds can easily turn into herms? and we're talkin about the good ol store bought perfectly engineered selection...

[xcrispi]

Yes ,
All them high priced feminised / female seeds = whatever they're callin em nowadays have huge chances of these probs. unless handled w/ extreme care . I've bred them myself and had great luck w/ all my guinea pigs that have run them till 3 mos. ago . Actually had someone piss 1 off bad enough the entire plant was male , not just stray nanas .
Get good w/ reg genetics 1st , or clone .
Crispi :jointsmile:

[posi]

My last 2 grows both turned herms and all I got was seeds.
You can't strees the plant at all.

[zoomatl]

can i ask the obvious....do femenized seed go hermie and regular seeds not go hermie if both are treated or shoudl i say mistreated in the same way ...?