You do know people that Auto-flowering is nothing more than crossing a Sativa/Indica with a horrible Ruderalis strain, Right? Ruderalis is a shit strain that you want to stay away from.
You also know that there is no such thing as a female seed. The seed is actually a hermaphrodite seed and can do some wild crappy things if you let it get away from you.
I simply do not understand why I see supposed growers keep buying seeds. Why aren't you breeding them yourselves? It's really not that hard to do and you can do it with only sacrificing one tiny little bottom branch on your female plant and you will still get a 100 seeds from the bottom branch. The rest of the plant is still smokeable.
All I see that the breeders are doing is destroying the original strains.
Yes, you are right, autoflower strains suck. I'm speaking from experience. I was a noob, grew out some Easy Ryder's, the smoke was ok at first and got me super stoned, but I quickly built up a tolerance and it ended up just sitting in a jar for about two months. I went back to it later on and it wasn't much better so I gave it away. I've since matured as a grower and know the good genetics and will never ever grow another autoflower. They're just a waste if you're a real connoisseur. I'm all about real strains now days. Yeah those auto's are quick and short, but they're not that much quicker and you can keep many regular strains short by topping, lst and growing clones. I honestly see no need for auto's, they are crap compared to the real strain they were before being crossed with the ditch weed (ruderalis)
As for the fem'd seeds part, man you need to get with the times. All fem'd beans aren't crap these days, I guess you missed the memo. Really I've grown out both regular sex beans and fem beans and there's no difference. I see lot's of complaints, but I honestly feel that's due to grower error or just incompetence. A lot of people with smaller grows don't have the time or space to grow out a full pack of beans hunting for a female. I've been growing fem'd seeds for a year now, lot's of different strains, from good breeders though. One herm, but it was my fault, not the seed or breeders fault. I forgot I drilled a hole and there was a light leak for a couple weeks.
Fem seeds are just fine if you get them from good breeders and take care of em. You will end up with a killer mj plant and some great smoke, there should be no argument over people growing from fem seeds. Grow some out (not just the freebies) and then report back. What you're doing now is just saying a bunch of crap without having any experience with actual fem seeds. You want to sound superior to other growers because you grow out regular seeds, you just waste more of your time than we do. If I had the room, I'd be growing regs sometimes just to make a seed crop, but that's it.
As for the breeding thing, yeah if you have room to keep male plants to grow out for pollen to make seeds, thn that's great. But, really an extra area for that would be even more expense, space, lighting, ventilation, etc... Why not just keep a nice mother of your favorite strain to keep the strain around? I do agree with you about breeders destroying good genetics. There are far too many random crosses these days. It's like breeders have gone cross crazy and don't even think about the end result. I've smoked some absolute crap crosses in my time. It really bothers me, it's like breeders are ruining good weed by crossing it with so many other strains and then calling it something stupid. Ooooh I gotta fire ass skunkxmekong hazexjack hererxblack dominaxQuerklexour secret geneticsxpineapple expressxearly skunkxog kush. Yeah that's about right, no thanks I'll pass on that dumbass cross. Stick with real strains and stay away from all the crosses that are just a muddied genepool of mediocre genetics.
Oh and is it really hard to figure out why people are still buying beans? I'd say the #1 reason is, we/they want to try new strains. Why do you care again?
i use fem seed also
i dont have much space to grow and dont wanna waste time and money growing males
btw,i have never had a hermie
seems like u just wanted something to complain about
Same, I hate growing out regular seeds just to find some females. It's entirely too time consuming and so much care is wasted. Again, nothing wrong with fem seeds.
I use fem's when i use seeds as i have niether the time or space to grow out double amount of regular seeds. I hardly think that constitutes me being an idiot
The guy obviously has zero experience with fem seeds or he wouldn't be here bitching about em. Fem seeds are great, I really dont get all the hate and complaints. I think people see others complaining and they want attention too, so they complain even though they are clueless and don't have solid facts. Agreed, it's great to have several different strains going at once.
