Anyone tired of finding out that most of the 10 seeds you have planted turn out to be bloody male whats the point of wasting good soil/time on males so i will be using female seeds from now on.Everyone hates the sexing part of growing and hoping for females out of regular seeds is disheartning especially when u can get really unlucky with the male/female ratio,on the other hand u could get lucky and end up with all female!Thats why female seeds are the focus from now on,im fed up of the seed lottery and i know that alot of good strains dont do female seeds, so any ideas on strong indicas female 5 or 10 seeds for around £35-45 would be great cheers everyone

Hi mate,

I aint grown from seed yet so really cant give you that much imput... i've always grown from cuttings up to now!

Anyway, the stick the feminized seeds get are they they somtimes go hermie and that will be alot more frustrating than getting males!

The idea really is to get male/female seeds and pick a female out as a Mother to take cuttings from!

They are alot more uniform when growing and finish at the same time, along with them not getting as "leggy" as sometimes they do from seed.

If your getting 100% males then i'd try a different seedbank mate, which one you been getting that off?

Best of lucky my friend

Alright mate,i got 7males out of ten from mandalas hashberry, good strain other than the male/female ratio.Whats a hermie? heard of it but i havent had one yet thats why im in the dark,How long does it take before u can take cuttings from a plant and when is the best time too?So u could grow one female plant and take as many cuttings off it as you want and then plant them in individual pots and they will all be exactly as the parent mother is that right?cheers DrGreenThumb

Like i say, i'll try and explain it to the best of my knolledge but i aint done it my self yet.

A Hermie means "hermaphrodite" which in these terms means, at the end of flower your plants female plants pollinate them selves and form seeds inside your buds. It's something to do with the way the seeds are make i think, making them 99% female.

Yes, your right, "cuttings" or "clones" are basically exacally that, a clone of it's mother, it will be the same as it's mother was.
They grow very similar in hight, yeild, thc, finishing times etc as aposed to just growing from seed.

There a few different ways to do this but one would would be if you could have a veg and flower room, two seperate rooms/chambers.
You could then to get your 3 females you got from the Hashberry and put them in your veg room, name each strain like "HB1, HB2, HB3" and then grow them out in veg for maybe 4-6 weeks (im not sure, someone correct me) and then take 3 cuttings of each of the 3 different plants and lable each one acordingly so you can refer back to it later.
Veg these cuttings out in your veg room for a few weeks and then put them into flower in your flower room, leaving your 3 mothers (HB1, HB2, HB3) in the veg room.
Now with your cuttings you've flowered out, you pick which of the 3 you like the best and then keep that one, for example, keep HB2 and get rid of the other two (HB1 and HB3). So you've now got one mother and you know exacally what the cuttings will look like from it and you can now take as many cuttings as you need for this and have a constant rotation of having week about every 8 weeks!

Hope i didn't make that more complicated that it is, there are many other ways to do this like revegging your plants and just choosing a mother from how it looks at the end of veg etc... but if you really want a good mother and know exacally how your plants turn out then the above way might be best.

hey letzget1

i usualy grow from seed in hydro and most of the time the feminized variety are my fist choice,

the nicest peformer i have grown so farwas feminized mazar, by dutch passion a little over 45 mark but worth the extra bucks.

did well in a standard closet grow under 400 watts

there were a few hermie flowers in there but if you keep an eye on them they are easly plucked out before they become a problem.

but if you realy dont want to spend any more than the 45 50 quid try sensi seeds they have a line of budget seed called white label and there are feminized avalible,
they all come with a good discription of the plant and are avalable in 5 seed bags so mayby even 2 strains for the price of 1 ten seed bag .

any way keep us postedon your choice

p.s ill look out an old photo of the mazar and post it for you .

grasshopper



edit : here are the pics of the mazar at the end of her life just before cutting ( this grow was many years ago now in my first grow room)
as you can see done realy well in very simple conditions.

Alright grasshopper i will give the Mazaar a blast i reckon ,heard some great stuff about that strain!,Whats a hermie?not had one yet so im a little in the dark on the subject ,thanks for the mazaar pics look good!. cheers bud

hi letzget1

dont think you,ll be dissapointed by the mazar was an xcellent smoke. and a good yeilder.

as for a hermi (hermaphrodite hope i spelt that correctly)

a hermi is a plant which whilst in flower starts to develope both male and female flowers at the same time .

as you can figure this is not what we want if we are growing for smoke as the male flowers will pollonate the buds and produce seed. ( these seed tho will allmost always be female)

but keeping a close eye on the buds you can usualy spot a hermi well before the pollen sacks open and dump all over your virgin buds.

if any male flowers are spotted just pluck em out and leave the buds to do there stuff this wont realy cause any damage to the plant if your carefull.

hope this helped bud

take care and remember let us know how you get on with the mazzar.


grasshopper

Thanks for your advice grasshopper,will let u know what happens on the mazaar grow , might try a grow diary if a got the time cheers LetZgetI

The Mazar is a cracking smoke...Nice n sweet...

People in the UK use seed because clones aren't readily available like in they are in the States and some places in Europe, where most plants are grown from clone.

Female seeds are produced in different methods, usually involving stressing the seed producing plants using different techniques to achieve production of female only seeds. The methods used vary from seed bank to seed bank also with varying levels of success.

I have been using female seeds in the past and flowering the plants. But seed is costly, especially when you are required to purchase for each grow. As my journey into cultivation goes further and further i've started using regular seeds to select mothers from and to form a 'bilblotheque' or 'libary' of genetics. It's possible to keep a mother with the right conditions for and indefinite amount of time (20 years plus). Clones are the way forward for many, many reasons. Fem seeds have there place but its only a very small one! They are un-natural and to some extend a profit generating scheme by the seed banks.....

As for a good fem strain, youve hit it on the head already - Mazar!

LS