What is Feminized Seeds

Feminized seeds are produced from male plants, whereas non- feminized seeds have a 50% chance of creating males.

More about feminized seeds

Because only female cannabis plants generate edible blooms, feminized seeds are essential to cannabis cultivation. Beyond the fact that male cannabis plants produce pollen sacs rather than flowers, having males around females can cause a complete crop to fail. Because male plants pollinate the buds of young female plants, having them present may compromise an entire harvest.

Breeders and growers created feminized cannabis seeds to address these problems. You reduce the chance of a male plant producing flowers but not generating them, as well as the chance of a male plant unintentionally pollinating flower-bearing female plants by increasing the likelihood that all your seeds will produce female plants.

How to get feminized seeds

Feminized cannabis seeds are quite popular. Seed banks in different countries sell feminized cannabis seeds. If you live in a jurisdiction where growing marijuana at home is legal, you should be able to buy feminized seeds at your local dispensary. You can also feminize your own seeds, but if you want the highest-quality feminized seeds, get them from a trustworthy breeder or seed bank.

How are marijuana seeds feminized?

Feminized weed seeds are produced through genetic engineering. The goal is to get female plants to produce pollen. Pollen comes only from male plants normally, but if you can turn a female plant into a pollinator, you’ll have pollen with only female DNA. There are a few techniques for doing so:

• During the flowering stage, spray a female marijuana plant with colloidal silver. Colloidal silver encourages the development of pollen sacs, and since it comes from a female plant, it contains female DNA. Pollen from this male plant may be used to pollinate the flowers on a regular female cannabis plant after they start producing seeds. These pollinated blooms will produce feminized seeds as a result of being pollinated by them. There are several claims on the internet that state you should not smoke or consume any part of a plant that has been sprayed with colloidal silver. And there are reports claiming it’s rubbish, too. You’ll have to make your own decision.
• Spray a young cannabis plant with silver thiosulfate in the same manner as colloidal silver. This chemical inhibits the formation of ethylene, which is required for flowering. You encourage your female plant to produce pollen by feeding it silver thiosulfate, allowing you to pollinate other female plants and create feminized cannabis seeds.
• The third most popular approach is referred to as “rodelization.” This is an entirely natural procedure, although it does not always give the intended effect like colloidal silver or silver thiosulfate. Rodelization takes advantage of a natural phenomenon in which an unpollinated female plant may spontaneously produce its own pollen sacs. Consider it the plant’s last-ditch effort to reproduce. In this technique, you keep a female plant in the flowering stage for an extended period of time, allowing the plant’s self-pollination mechanism to function. You can then use pollen produced by the female plant to pollinate flowers on a regular female plant, which will result in feminized seeds.

What is the difference between autoflowering and feminized seeds?

Autoflowering seeds have been developed to flower without requiring light changes to start producing flowers. Whether cannabis seeds are true or false has nothing to do with when plants bloom. Cannabis feminized seeds have been created to produce only females.

Are feminized seeds guaranteed to be female?

Feminized seeds do not always produce only female plants, and there is no assurance that you will receive feminized seeds if you buy them. Every now and then, a feminized seed will sprout into a male plant. As a result, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on your plants as they develop. If pollen sacs begin to form, remove the plant before it pollinates unintentionally and damages your female plants.

Do feminized seeds produce seeds?

Feminized seeds should not produce seeds in theory, since they are designed to create female plants only. They should grow into females and unpollinated females should develop buds instead of seeds. When a flower on a female plant is pollinated with pollen from a male plant, cannabis plants generate seeds. Pollen is required for seed production if there are no male plants present; therefore, there should be no seed formation if you keep a female plant in bloom too long. All bets are off, however, if you force a female plant to remain in the flowering stage for too long; rodelization may result as previously described.

Are regular seeds better than feminized?

Cannabis is a personal thing. There’s no reason to think that normal female cannabis seeds are superior to feminized seeds. Feminized seeds, on the other hand:

• Reduce the possibility of producing an unprofitable male plant by increasing the yield potential.
• Reduce the likelihood that a male plant will pollinate female plants by accident.
• By reducing the number of unexpected male plants, you can simplify the growth process.

Feminized seeds may be an excellent alternative for novice growers because they remove much guesswork and pressure to identify and destroy male plants as quickly as possible. However, there are no gaurantees, and new growers should continue doing their research and learning how to identify a male cannabis plant.

Tips for growing marijuana from feminized seeds

The process for making cannabis from feminized seeds is the same as that for non-feminized seeds. If you want to cultivate marijuana in your state, keep the following things in mind.

You’ll need to make some decisions before you plant the first seed:

• Do you want to cultivate cannabis indoors, in a greenhouse, or outside in the sun?
• What strain(s) do you plan to cultivate?
• Will it be autoflowering or photoperiod? 
• Are you going to grow from seed or clone a cannabis plant?
• What type of cultivation media do you plan to use? Soil, a hydroponic solution, or an aeroponic system?

Several additional questions can be generated by each of these areas. Will you utilize natural or artificial light if you cultivate indoors? If you go hydroponic, will you also use a grow medium like rockwool or hydroton? While it is possible to purchase a clone, plant it in soil and hope for the best, it’s preferable to think like a novice and conduct intensive study before diving into marijuana growing.

On the other hand, if that’s not your thing, you may grow cannabis like a houseplant and achieve success with a basic indoor cultivate under natural light. If you start with two plants on a sunny windowsill and end up with a fantastic harvest, you might stick with it or move on to a more challenging procedure. It all comes down to personal choice and how much effort you want to put in.