Feminized Marijuana Seeds

Why Grow Female Marijuana Seeds?

Feminized cheese marijuana

The neophyte grower might wonder what is so special about feminized marijuana seeds, because there are many websites offering these kinds of seeds at prices that are two-fold or even three-fold that of the usual prices.

The answer is that there are certain benefits of planting feminized marijuana seeds as compared to the usual seeds that come as a combination of male and female seeds.

Male/Female Marijuana Plant Overview

It should be realized that marijuana plants sexually reproduce and that there is a female plant and there is a male plant. The flowers of the male plant have the task of fertilizing the female plant, which is the one that produces the buds and seeds. If you purchase a pack of feminized Cheese seeds, for instance, you are assured that you will be growing only female plants. A normal pack of seeds would approximately have the same number of male and female seeds.

How are feminized cannabis seeds made in the first place? They are made by cloning female plants and then spraying a silver solution on to them. This technique prevents them from becoming male and their seeds will always be female.

Advantages of Growing Feminized Cannabis Seeds

One advantage of planting feminized seeds is that you can be assured of a good harvest because it is only the female plants that could be harvested. If you planted the usual pack of seeds, you would have a combination of male and female plants and your harvest would only be about 50 percent. Males are not harvested because their THC content is usually too low.

Another reason why you might want to plant only female marijuana seeds is because it can entail less work. If there are male plants in your garden, you would have to be able to determine which of them are male as soon as possible and keep them away from the females because you would not want them to fertilize the female plants. This is because fertilized female plants tend to produce smaller buds that contain marijuana seeds. On the other hand, unfertilized females have riper and larger buds.

The all-female marijuana seeds will ensure that you won't have to do the segregation of male and female plants. A pack of feminized marijuana seeds will also mean that your yield will be approximately double that of an ordinary pack of seeds. This becomes very important if you only have a small area that could be devoted to the planting of marijuana.

Examples of female marijuana seed strains: Cannaphrodisiac Cheese White Queen

Later on, you might not even have to buy a pack of seeds because of the possibility of cloning. This process involves the replanting of a cutting from a mature plant that has been examined and found to be of good quality.

In this manner, the grower would be assured that he would have purely unfertilized female plants like he would have with a pack of feminized marijuana seeds.

Aside from this advantage of cloning, the grower would also be ensured that the plants would inherit all of the characteristics of the original plant, and thus have a good harvest every time.