Everything You Need to Know About Feminized Marijuana Seeds

Feminized marijuana seeds are becoming more popular to experienced growers. Those who are new to this variety are often taken aback by its price which is double or even triple that of the standard marijuana seeds. Knowing what feminized marijuana seeds are and how they can be beneficial to growers like you will help you understand why they are fast becoming the preferred choice.    

Standard Marijuana Seeds vs. Feminized Marijuana Seeds

The gender of the marijuana plant can be female or male. A closer study about their reproduction suggests that it is the male variety that produces the flowers which fertilizes the female plant. Soon after fertilization, seeds and buds begin to develop. This means a 50/50 ratio is set for every pack of standard marijuana seeds to generate either female or male plants.

When it comes to a variety commonly known as feminized marijuana seeds, female plants are cloned and “shocked” in order to hinder their development as male plants. This procedure is accomplished by spraying the plant with a silver solution thereby ensuring that only female plants are produced.

Buying Feminized Marijuana Seeds

Experienced growers have so many reasons why they prefer feminized marijuana seeds, but this evolves around the time, money and effort they need to exert if they will go with standard marijuana seeds. Male plants cannot be harvested for marijuana because they have very low levels of THC.

Fertilized and unfertilized female plants differ with the buds they produce. Fertilized female plants have bigger and riper buds while unfertilized female plants feature smaller buds packed with marijuana seeds.     

Since standard marijuana seeds can produce male or female plants, not only do the yields vary but it consumes your:

•time - this is because you still need to immediately identify and separate the male plants to stop them from fertilizing the females;

•money - although feminized marijuana seeds are more expensive, buying standard marijuana seeds can cost you more in the long run because you need to repeatedly buy marijuana seeds to produce more plants; and

•effort - this is because you need to repeatedly breed each pack of marijuana seeds you buy and later on you are necessitated to identify and separate the females from the males.

Feminized marijuana seeds are actually more expensive and more tedious to produce as compared to standard marijuana seeds. However, they are very popular among growers because they generate more valuable plants. They help growers save on:

•time - this is since you don’t need to continuously identify and separate the females from the males;

•money - this is since buying them is more of like a “one time, big time” deal because you’re already guaranteed with a female plant for every marijuana seed it produces (this will provide you with more buds and higher yields); and 

•effort - this cuts back on the energy you spend for buying, growing, identifying, and separating the 2 varieties, and if you only have limited growing space, having all female crops can make the most out of it.