Growing dank weed is all about creating dense, resinous flowers rich in THC and other cannabinoids, which requires bringing only female plants to maturity. Some growers pull male plants from their crops during the pre-flowering stage. Others use clones. However, by far the most popular and effective way to guarantee a high yield of tasty buds is to grow cannabis plants from feminized seeds.

What Are Feminized Seeds?

Let’s start with the basics. Regular seeds have a 50/50 chance of growing into male hemp plants instead of female marijuana plants. Feminized seeds, on the other hand, boast a 99% rate of female plant production, which means you’re all but guaranteed to end up with a full crop of seedless marijuana buds with no pollen-producing hemp plants involved.

Why Use Feminized Seeds?

If you’ve ever grown your own weed, you know that male plants don’t just use up valuable space and resources without contributing to your final yield. They can also jeopardize the rest of your crop. If you don’t pull 100% of the male plants during the pre-flowering phase, they will begin to produce pollen sacs. That pollen can go on to pollinate your female plants, leaving you with seedy, less potent buds.

How to Sex Cannabis Plants Grown From Regular Seeds

Learning how to sex cannabis plants during the pre-flowering phase can be a bit tricky. Male plants usually enter the pre-flowering phase around two weeks before their female counterparts, so you’ll need to pay close attention to the bud sites. Once your plants are getting less than 18 hours of light a day, start looking for greenish-white, egg-shaped pollen sacs. They indicate that a plant is male.

Female plants don’t start to produce buds until around two weeks after male plants form their pollen sacs. The buds start off as cactus-like white growths at the ends of the branches and will continue growing throughout the flowering phase until they become large, sticky flowers.

You need to stay on top of checking your plants during the pre-flowering phase and remove 100% of the males before they can open up their pollen sacs. Otherwise, missing even one male plant can ruin your entire crop.

How to Make Feminized Seeds

These seeds are produced by expert plant breeders that are deeply familiar with and experienced in the feminization process. They’ll allow you to grow more plants in a tighter space, avoid pollination, and maximize your yield.

If you’ve already gotten the hang of growing marijuana from feminized seeds, you might be ready to take the next step and start producing your own. The process requires causing one of your beloved female plants to produce male pollen sacs, then using the pollen to pollinate other female plants tagged for seed production.

There are two ways to go about creating feminized seeds: natural rhodelization and chemical inducement of feminized pollen. These days, just about every expert breeder uses the latter method, but we’ll discuss both of them just in case.

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