Regular or Feminized Seeds?

I am on a tight budget when it comes to buying seeds. I know with regular seeds there is both female and male and with feminized it (should) be females only. Would I be getting more bang for my buck by buying feminized seeds or should I risk buying cheaper regular seeds?

Only you can answer that question mang!

I've bought fem seeds the last 4 grows outdoors and have had great luck. All turned out females and a couple turned hermi. Out of 50 seeds. Fem seeds are good if you don't want to deal with wasting time taking care of males for a month or so. I'll always pay a little more to get females.

In my humble opinion, go fem. To me it's a waste of time, effort, space and nutes to grow reg seeds only to have some of them become male. Unless you can afford to waste all the aforementioned, then go with cheaper reg seeds. I grow in a small tent, so I want to maximize my space and yield. I have a much better chance of doing it with fem seeds.

50/50 on reg sex so do the math.. I don't have room to mess with males.

There are advantages to both.
Some of my best plants have been feminized.

i know i guy out of 5 fem seeds he orderd 4 were males so i always buy reg now

i prefer to grow regular seeds, i think this is mostly habit , i have had some good results from fems, but also a higher rate of hemi's from fems
i feel more comfortable that the females will be less likely to show later signs of hemming from reg seeds,
it is not so bad when a plant shows both male and female signs early on during sexing, as they can be easy discarded and do no damage to other plants
it is when plants that are female suddnely sprout male flowers during weeks 4 onward this is perhaps the worst time to hemi, it wastes so much space and time
and can pollinate the rest of your crop
i have never seen regular seed strains turn hemi like this in the later stages of flowering, some do produce male flowers at the start and end of flowering , but this is not damaging
like i said though this is all just my habbit mostly
many folk grow out fems and have little issues with hemis , i would just rather not take any risk
it is easy to select males at 4-5 week of veg, during pre-flower if you keep them small and trim them they will waste very little space
i am able to remove males , keep the remaining females and still fill every inch of space with the remaining female plants on any seed run

peace

Ya. Feminized seeds are most likely female not always. I like my clones.

Properly created feminized seeds lack the Y chromosome and CAN NEVER be male. regards,

Advantages to both.

Fems are nice because it's throw and go. You know from the jump how many plants you'll be dealing with once they pop.

Limits your genetics choices though, as many strains are not available in feminized. Plus if you decide you want to do a little breeding down the line, makes sense to get the regular.

Depends what strain you want to go with I guess.

ru4r34l said:

Properly created feminized seeds lack the Y chromosome and CAN NEVER be male. regards,

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it's not a question of being male, the problem is in order to produce plenty of pollen breeders select females that will easy produce male flowers
with minimal stress, light/ and or various silver nitrate, or colloidal silver treatments
using this obtained all female* pollen from low stress tolerant female pheno's for breeding can result in offspring that will also carry the same trait to produce male flowers with minimal stress , which is not desirable for growers growing out these seeds

i have heard good things about dinafem , never grown any myself

peace

Well..some sellers screw up a fair amount or mix em up. I think the key word there was "properly".

If you go with fem seeds DON'T buy them from BC Bud Depot. I got fem seeds 3 times from them and had more male seeds than fem. I have fem seeds from Dr. Greenthumb that were all fem. match

Not sure as I am growing out fem seeds for the first time. I will let you know in about 4 to 6 weeks. Oh, and I also have Dutch Reverse + saturate for the early signs of hermi. Have not used this before, but have heard good reviews of the foliar spray reversing the hermi tendency.

*disclaimer* --- I do not know what I'm talking about, I'm new at this, but when I was asking the guy at our local hydro shop why you wouldn't just go and buy feminized seeds every time, he told me the following:

"Feminized seeds are great, but you can only clone one or two generations and they start go go hermaphrodite every time".

Don't know if this is true, I wouldn't say I make the above statement using definitive research, but he told me that basically the feminized seeds are cross-bred in such a way that they are awful as mother plants, and that their cloned-clones are even worse, etc. I have one single Corleone Kush feminized seed growing right now and I think I will heed his advice, my clones will come from my regular Jean Gray Kush seeds.

For my first grow I'm going to try FEM. After a shit load of research of course. Will be posting full details of my first grow... http://original-ssc.com/pyramid-seeds-tutankhamon.html I'll be taking clones too so lets see what a rook can do with just a little dough and reading...

skunkd0c said:

it's not a question of being male, the problem is in order to produce plenty of pollen breeders select females that will easy produce male flowerswith minimal stress, light/ and or various silver nitrate, or colloidal silver treatmentsusing this obtained all female* pollen from low stress tolerant female pheno's for breeding can result in offspring that will also carry the same trait to produce male flowers with minimal stress , which is not desirable for growers growing out these seeds i have heard good things about dinafem , never grown any myselfpeace

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Pretty much any female can be stressed into producing pollen. It is easy. What you described would be irresponsible breeding.

ICBMCanada said:

*disclaimer* --- I do not know what I'm talking about, I'm new at this, but when I was asking the guy at our local hydro shop why you wouldn't just go and buy feminized seeds every time, he told me the following:"Feminized seeds are great, but you can only clone one or two generations and they start go go hermaphrodite every time".

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Not true.

I think it's just a more of a gimmick then anything, I don't know what the rate is but I've had the same chances with males then reg/fem seeds, except fem are alot more expensive because they make you believe it won't be a male which is still a chance of it being one, so save your money.

ryan1918 said:

I think it's just a more of a gimmick then anything,

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That is what you think? Fem seeds are not a gimmick.

ryan1918 said:

I don't know what the rate is but I've had the same chances with males then reg/fem seeds,

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This does not make sense. If you are trying to say that fem seeds (under normal conditions) can produce males, you are really, really wrong.

ryan1918 said:

except fem are alot more expensive because they make you believe it won't be a male which is still a chance of it being one, so save your money.

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Can you explain to me how a fem seed would produce a male plant?I don't think you know from experience. You are probably repeating bullshit you read.Properly made fem seeds do not have a Y chromosome. A male plant will always have a Y chromosome. A seed that does not have a Y chromosome can not produce a male plant. Properly made fem seeds are more expensive because they will produce females. They are more expensive because people will pay more for them. You are passing on bullshit information about something that you do not understand.