Colchicine treating

[Rusty Trichome]

...if I buy feminised seeds from a breeder, what technique do they use

Varies by batch and breeder. Not sure I've ever seen the femming methods listed with sales or seed germination info. In my opinion, the ones to look for would be the femmed seeds as a result of light poisoning, though.

...and is paying more for feminised seeds worth the added expense?

If only getting femmed seeds, you will either run out of seeds quickly, or you'll have to make room for a clone mother, or have to learn to stress a lady into providing pollen to make more seeds, or you'll have to purchase new un-femmed seeds to grow a solid male for his pollen, or you'll have to cross it with a strain you already have, potentially degrading the strain, and results will always vary.

I think it'd be better to purchase the cheap, un-femmed seeds, and do the femming myself using the interrupted darkness (light poisoning) metheod. But even if you have to purchase femmed seeds it is tremendously convienent if you have the experience and checkbook. After all, having invested a month or more to raising the seedlings, it sucks having to cull half your plants because they are males.

Having said all that, I think keeping a clone mother is a tad easier for the novice grower once you master cloning... :thumbsup:

Rusty Trichome Reviewed by Rusty Trichome on 07-09-2009. Colchicine treating I've read from a few sources that crushing Colchicine tablets or extracting the raw colchicine from the winter crocus bulbs and soaking your seeds in it is the most preferred and used method to feminize seeds....anyone have any input as to this method of feminization? Rating: 5