Quote Originally Posted by Deejay2163
If i'm not mistaken (and I certainly may be) I read that in the original Growers Guide. I guess the better question to ask would be , if I buy feminised seeds from a breeder , what technique do they use and is paying more for feminised seeds worth the added expense?
Commercial breeders use either light poisining or chemical poisining to turn plants hermie then usually collect 'naner pollen to use on selected breeding mothers.Good breeders usually are working with stable strains and offer good genetics even with femmed seeds. But since they are seeds there is some variation between all of them.

I currently have a thread in Basic Growing called "selecting a mom" and I have grown out a 10 seed pack of Sensi Seeds Shiva Skunk that "limited edition feminised". Going thru the process of grading the plants to figure out witch of the 10 plants becomes the mom #1 for a production grow. Stop by and just remember I go off topic often and encouage others to also if they want. Also showing some auto flowers that I 'm doing at the same time for what I call "shits and giggles".

BTW I think they are worth it, normally I'd start 20 or more regular beans and have to sort thru getting rid of males, so with fem seeds I only start 10. My concession to lazy or limited time.