What Are Feminized Marijuana Seeds?

Every internet site that legally sells marijuana seeds offers a curious option to buy so called feminized seeds, typically at two or 3 times the price for the same quantity of standard seeds. But what are feminized marijuana seeds? And why do people buy them if they cost much more?

What are they?

Marijuana plants are either masculine or feminine - the male produces flowers that fertilize the female plant, which develops buds and seeds. The standard pack of cheap marijuana seeds will produce a mix of female and male plants in an approximately 50/50 ratio.

Feminized marijuana seeds are produced by cloning and "shocking" female plants by spraying them with a silver solution. This forestalls them from developing as males. The seeds from plants that have been treated in this manner will only produce female plants - therefore they are called feminized marijuana seeds.

Why do people buy them?

There are number of reasons why many experienced growers choose to buy feminized marijuana seeds. Most male plants have awfully low levels of THC, so they cannot be harvested for marijuana. Additionally, if a crop has a mix of sexes it is necessary to identify and separate the male plants as fast as possible to be certain they do not fertilize the females - unfertilized female plants produce bigger, riper buds, while fertilized females produce smaller buds that are filled with marijuana seeds. Good growing can still be done with standard seeds and mixed sex plants, but it can take a ton more effort, and yields can alter greatly.

Feminized marijuana seeds will produce all female plants. This saves this hassle of identifying and separating the male plants in a crop before they can fertilize the females, and it also suggests that out of a pack of 10 seeds it is possible to produce ten plants that may be cropped for marijuana rather than ( on average ) 5 plants. Most growers will naturally have a prohibited limited amount of space, and a warranted all female crop can help to make the maximum of a smaller growing space.

Of course, growers wish to produce more plants without needing to regularly buy marijuana seeds, but it is possible to do this without breeding plants - more experienced growers like to clone their plants by taking a good cutting from a grown up plant and then replanting it. Not only does this let them maintain unfertilized females and maintain a high yield from all their plants, the clone will maintain all the features of its "parent", implying that the best quality plants can be reproduced precisely.

They cost buyers more. Inexpensive marijuana seeds can be produced extraordinarily easily, but it takes some serious time and effort to provide feminized marijuana seeds. Since these seeds produce more valuable plants, they are therefore more expensive. But they remain popular among growers. They save growers the difficulty of identifying and separating the male plants, and also give a warranted female from each marijuana seed that's bought, leading to more buds and higher yields.