I want to establish a motherplant (white label white widow FEM)

am currently working with a
150w hps in a 1.5 ft X 2.5 ft closet growspace
and
a seperate area with the SAME dimensions where I can add CFLS.

I am relatively new at this and i've only grown two bagseeds from commercial grade brickyweed and got buds only slightly better.

What I would like to have EVENTUALLY is a motherplant of a good quality strain that I can take cuttings from every two weeks for a continous 6-8 (small)plant SOG.

But I am stuck debating on how I should go about this....

1) grow a few FEMINIZED seeds, take a small cutting/clone from each of them, and put all the plants into flowering. see which plant does the best, and use that plants clone as my new mother.

My concerned with this is.... possible hermies, which can be a complete nightmare. even if the plant doesn't hermie, i am not sure if future clones taken from the plant can suddenly turn into a he/she

2) OR start with REGULAR SEEDS, but this will take up more space, so I might have the cut down to 5 seeds to grow and work from there. Take a clone for a possible mother, put the rest of the plant into flowering. and wait...

What do you guys know about the "white label" feminized seeds with white widow genetics? Does this company have a good reputation for producing reliable fem seeds? and should i trust a motherplant from a fem seed?

feminized seeds are a waste of money in my opinion. why would regular seeds take more space?

bonz said:

feminized seeds are a waste of money in my opinion. why would regular seeds take more space?

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Because one must grow more plants to end up with the desired number of females. Not everyone has abundant grow space. I sure don't. Some might argue that it's a waste of nutes/light/space to grow non-feminized seeds. To each his/her own, I say, but I'm sticking with female seeds until I can accommodate more plants. It's not like I'm against non-feminized seeds.

I wouldn't let the fact that a plant "might" hermie be a deciding factor. I just started a grow with fem seeds, but my last grow was not fem seeds and my best plant hermied on me and seeded the crop. My point is once in a blue moon hermies happen weather you go with fem seeds or not, and the vast majority of the time its the growers fault for over stressing their plants.

I've only grown about a total of 50 plants from seed. about 20 of them have been fem seeds. the only hermie I got was from a regular non-fem seed. and I didn't catch it because it was my first grow and it only made 1 pollen sac right under the base of the buds. anyway I got all the seeds from that hermie and grew them all out and got females from everyone of them. never had a hermie since. I had heat issues that first grow and I think thats why i got the hermie. I wouldn't worry about gettin more hermies from fem seeds than regular seeds.