Fems - What do you know?

[Rosinallday]

I see that a large % of seeds purchased by members are feminized seeds. Please share ur experience here.
* what breeders do you like for fems?
* % hermies, I'm very interested in this bc you hear a lot of different things

 

[Frimpong]

I see that a large % of seeds purchased by members are feminized seeds. Please share ur experience here.
* what breeders do you like for fems?
* % hermies, I'm very interested in this bc you hear a lot of different things

I only buy Fems if it's something I can't get in reg. But that's just me. CSI , Clearwater, In-House. To name a few good ones ?

 

[Hitch]

I see that a large % of seeds purchased by members are feminized seeds. Please share ur experience here.
* what breeders do you like for fems?
* % hermies, I'm very interested in this bc you hear a lot of different things

I like regs, but having some fem beans around is so clutch when time is an issue.

To answer, I used to love my Dinafem beans, but now I’m not sure I have a preference. Take Bob Bitchen… only fem he has is that Chernobyl, but boy is it a winner. I’ll try anyone’s gear really.

Hermie percentage? Not sure exactly. But no more than with regs for me personally.

 

[Amarok]

I've only grown fems from Europe, Seedsman seedbank and Nirvana, and never had issues.
I haven't bought fems since I first started growing though, just a personal preference.

 

[thenotsoesoteric]

In all my years growing i can't tell you one single way regs are better or safer than fems.

Not better vigor, not better terps or phenos, same amount of herm chance in my experience.

I guess it just comes down to personal preference. Me personally, I don't care if the seeds are regs or fems. Only care what plants were used in the creation.

 

[GthaEnigma]

Only started dabbling in fems since I joined Ph. It has been a mixed bag. It is hard to judge a strain in the polypolyhybrid world of fems by one seed. Alot of the starting material is itself the result of herm pollenation (ie gg4, chemdog). I only had one plant herm in my all reg days, I also was only growing full sun full season outdoor plants that were fully naturally sexually mature. Sexual maturity is one of the biggest trigger for most of what I have had herm in me in my tents and light dep. Flip young get confusion in a some cases. I really haven't had ANY breeder of fem gear that I haven't had at least one. I usually find some reason to blame my mistakes but I never found these issues with regular seeds, maybe it was just luck.

 

[Desert Rose]

In my experience I’ve had a decent amount more fems herm than regs and I flower out quite a few more regs as well. I think overall the quality of parents is the most important thing though. If the same cross is made in regs and fems I’d personally get the regs but I feel the majority of home growers prefer fems for one reason or another and I think lots of the hype breeders are catering to that.

 

[Amarok]

It is hard to judge a strain in the polypolyhybrid world of fems by one seed.

That is one of the most accurate things posted on this site.

I've seen so many posts, mostly on places like riu, where someone talks with utter confidence and authority about a poly line, having grown a seed or two.

I've got one IBL mom(reg) that I've had for years, and I still learn new things about her. The idea of growing one plant once and thinking you know it is hubris or naivete, in my opinion.

 

[GthaEnigma]

In my experience I’ve had a decent amount more fems herm than regs and I flower out quite a few more regs as well. I think overall the quality of parents is the most important thing though. If the same cross is made in regs and fems I’d personally get the regs but I feel the majority of home growers prefer fems for one reason or another and I think lots of the hype breeders are catering to that.

Plant counts

 

[Rosinallday]

Great feedback from everyone, much appreciated. think I'll make some fems

 

[M48]

In all my years growing i can't tell you one single way regs are better or safer than fems.

Not better vigor, not better terps or phenos, same amount of herm chance in my experience.

I guess it just comes down to personal preference. Me personally, I don't care if the seeds are regs or fems. Only care what plants were used in the creation.

That last sentence is the most important part in my opinion

 

[Amarok]

In my experience I’ve had a decent amount more fems herm than regs

I would posit that is because of the source genes, rather than the feminizing process. I believe that because so many of the polys have so many common recessives that hermies and other mutations are inevitable.

 

[Gentlemancorpse]

I've grown a lot of fems over the years. Like @Frimpong said usually just because its a cross i cant get any other way. Honestly, it's been a mixed bag. I have seen more here's than in regs, but again, I think that has more to do with the genetics involved than the reversal process. I've never had a herm from @thenotsoesoteric or @HydroRed (except the detroit lemonade but that was untested) and ive only had one from Useful. Meanwhile, every damn Cannarado fem I run has had at least one plant show intersex traits.

I also find fems veg slower in general when I run them next to regs. But they always catch up so it's never been a major drawback for me.

 

[Psychobilly]

Only started dabbling in fems since I joined Ph. It has been a mixed bag. It is hard to judge a strain in the polypolyhybrid world of fems by one seed. Alot of the starting material is itself the result of herm pollenation (ie gg4, chemdog). I only had one plant herm in my all reg days, I also was only growing full sun full season outdoor plants that were fully naturally sexually mature. Sexual maturity is one of the biggest trigger for most of what I have had herm in me in my tents and light dep. Flip young get confusion in a some cases. I really haven't had ANY breeder of fem gear that I haven't had at least one. I usually find some reason to blame my mistakes but I never found these issues with regular seeds, maybe it was just luck.

I was pondering that yesterday about Chemdog; Since the "13 beans found" were found in a bag, it would technically mean Chemdog has a Hermie trait if I'm not mistaken. Is that something that can eventually be recessed through generation of growing them without stress ?

Anyway, as for feminized seeds, I've never had any until joining here, so I'm currently growing a Fem BBHP outside (Stem rub was lovely and can't wait to see how it goes!).

I had seeds in my Detroit Lemonade clones but, I also had no idea what the best way to grow them would be so, that may have been like my fault. so I guess I'm gonna find out how a Feminized seedling does for the first time

 

[Hawkman]

been using females seeds since they came out some years ago. some cultivator feel that using regular seeds makes/gives a better plant than females seeds. "Time and less work is the reason for growing females _ Some cultivators say that regular seeds are better in keeping a true-er phenotype/genetic from original genetics

 

[Meatman]

For me I always used to be about fems but for now I don’t mind whatever is available is what I get I’ve been running way more regs lately than fems

 

[Cranio]

I like regs, but having some fem beans around is so clutch when time is an issue.

To answer, I used to love my Dinafem beans, but now I’m not sure I have a preference. Take Bob Bitchen… only fem he has is that Chernobyl, but boy is it a winner. I’ll try anyone’s gear really.

Hermie percentage? Not sure exactly. But no more than with regs for me personally.

Where do I find the bob bitchen seeds? I've never heard of them before and I'm curious about the Chernobyl now ? ?

 

[HBZ]

Where do I find the bob bitchen seeds? I've never heard of them before and I'm curious about the Chernobyl now ? ?

DC seed exchange

 

[Smokieokie]

Where do I find the bob bitchen seeds? I've never heard of them before and I'm curious about the Chernobyl now ? ?

There's pics of some in mine and @Meatman journals as well. I found a couple very nice phenos in a pack, frosty as frosty with gas and lime terps to boot.

 

[Meatman]

There's pics of some in mine and @Meatman journals as well. I found a couple very nice phenos in a pack, frosty as frosty with gas and lime terps to boot.

This pheno went straight lime slurpee it was amazing yield wasn’t crazy but that’s fine with me @Cranio you can dm @BobBitchen right on here and he’ll set you straight