Are Feminized Seeds Worth It?

[Amos Otis]

Guys like Subcool and many others voice their dislike over them, but I tell you what, Many like myself and other personal growers have found them as a Godsend!!

I've found two companies that market femmed crosses of Subcool strains. Bought 'em both. Have had great plants/smoke from FoS CheeseDom, and a Sin City Tangerine Power is a very happy girl coming up on 4 wks 12 / 12. I'm running a couple of Ace of Spades regs, but if I'd found fem versions that's what I'd have gotten. I have no interest in breeding. Grow/chop/smoke/ - next!

 

[jimdandy]

I've found two companies that market femmed crosses of Subcool strains. Bought 'em both. Have had great plants/smoke from FoS CheeseDom, and a Sin City Tangerine Power is a very happy girl coming up on 4 wks 12 / 12. I'm running a couple of Ace of Spades regs, but if I'd found fem versions that's what I'd have gotten. I have no interest in breeding. Grow/chop/smoke/ - next!

That's what I'm talkin bout!

 

[Squidbilly]

Could all the hermies possibly be from all these exotic crosses that we are all sold? I hate to say it but seed companies are in the bussiness of making money-not to mention the fact that seedbanks might not even be selling you the strain they claim. I think alot of the hermie issues are just from unstable crosses being rushed onto the market, not the process of making the seeds feminized-or it's the double wammy of both.

I have been growing out feminized seeds for years and the only problems I ever had were the occasional male. The only time I ever saw pollen or male flowers is when I experimented with later harvest times.

I also stick to tried and true strains from breeders-never a big seedbank.

 

[Squidbilly]

A bunch of people quoting others and reposting articles. Relatively few have grown any number of femmed seeds. Here is truth; Pay attention to things like light leaks and other fuck -ups that stress your plants and buy femmed seeds from a reputable breeder of them and you won't see much for hermies. Femmed seeds IMO are the best way to grow some dank in a smaller set up.

THIS EXACTLY! I think user error/bad genetics accounts for many hermie issues

 

[OGEvilgenius]

Yeah a bit like GMO's we know their bad but the experts say they are good..... Why oh why would someone ever lie for money? Cause it don't matter if you hustle the street corner or Wall Street they are hustling.

Not all experts agree on the safety or goodness of GMO's. You're not raising a very good point here IMO. Feminized seeds are not in the same ballpark as GMO's. They don't inhibit anything. They do allow for lazy guys to make S1's because folks seem to believe S1's are like clones because of misleading articles posted when they first came around. But people confuse really shit breeding practices with problems supposedly caused by feminization.

 

[tampee]

Not all experts agree on the safety or goodness of GMO's. You're not raising a very good point here IMO. Feminized seeds are not in the same ballpark as GMO's. They don't inhibit anything. They do allow for lazy guys to make S1's because folks seem to believe S1's are like clones because of misleading articles posted when they first came around. But people confuse really shit breeding practices with problems supposedly caused by feminization.

Well some believe the male is important I have no problem with a closet grower doing fems as it would suck only having 1 light I would have been fucked on a pack. But when it comes to breeding I got money says in 5 generations fems inbred you will be working with something like landrace Thai.

But they are great for some just not my thing I'd prefer a bred strain as fems of polly hybrid elites will be nothing like the mother as it's full of recessive traits.

 

[Eye of Horus]

I think popping seeds is a gamble, always going to be a gamble.

 

[Blazin Purps]

Only seed I have had hermie thus far is a Regular seed.

Same here, I have yet to have a Fem herm on me and I have popped plenty of both. It has really been strain / breeder specific for me more than Fem vs Regs

 

[duudical]

I have had only a single hermie in probably two dozen different feminized seeds. A lot of them from HSO due to giveaways and such. The Blue Dream from them is the only one that hermie'd, but in all honesty, I think that was more environmental stress than genetic as I grew only a single seed and only had one plant out of maybe 8 clones I grew out grow male flowers, and that particular plant for sure was subject to some stress as I had to tune my environment during some particularly cold winter weeks. I kept the seeds that came from it pollinating itself just to see what they would grow. Have one growing now. She does kind of look like "you've got a pretty mouth" weed for sure. Definitely different than the other plants around her, ha ha. I am just now getting ready to try my hand at regular seeds and hoping to find a male of a strain I like that I can begin hobby-breeding with for fun.

Anyway, my experience with fem seeds has been pretty solid. Grown seeds from G13, Barney's Farm, Dinafem, THSeeds, HSO, Delicious. No problems with any of them germinating or turning out to be females.