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#219 - Sunday, July 3, 2016 Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue... - Ever wondered how seed breeders make feminized seeds? In today's article you will learn how to make your own feminized seeds at home!
- Learn 7 way to improve bud quality (grow better buds than what you get from a dispensary!)
- This week's trophy pic features a first-time grower whose flowering cannabis plants are already producing big!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of
GrowWeedEasy.com) "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
~Robert Frost
How to Make Your Own Feminized Seeds by Nebula Haze |
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Introduction to Feminizing Your Own Cannabis Seeds
First of all, what are "feminized" marijuana seeds?
Feminized seeds are seeds which have been created by breeding two female plants together.
Because there are no male parents, all the resulting seeds end up being bud-bearing female plants. With feminized seeds, you know you can always count on every plant to produce buds, and don't have to worry about removing male
plants (which cause lower yields and seedy buds if they're left among your female plants). Learn more about male vs female cannabis plants.
Feminized seeds come from two female plants being bred together,
causing all offspring to be female Feminized seeds are commonly available from seed banks for nearly every popular
or famous strain. Breeders understand that a lot of people just want to grow plants for buds, and don't care about making a robust breeding program (which is one of the main reasons growers want male plants).
So how do seed
banks feminize their seeds? How can you breed two female plants together?
The main idea is to force a female plant to produce pollen sacs like a male plant. These male flowers (growing on a female plant) create pollen, which can be harvested and used to pollinate another female cannabis plant. The resulting seeds will all end up being female. Can feminizing seeds cause hermaphrodite plants?
Growers can force a female plant to make pollen sacs, and the "feminized" pollen produced can
be used to fertilize another female plant
How do you force a female plant to make pollen?
There are two main ways to make feminized pollen: - Induce feminized pollen chemically (Recommended) - This is the "professional way" to feminize seeds, and is how most reputable seed banks and breeders create feminized seeds to sell to the public. Substances such as
colloidal silver and gibberellic acid are used because they cause a female plant to produce male pollen sacs if bud sites are drenched daily for the first 3-4 weeks after the switch to 12/12. This article will give you step-by-step instructions on how to feminize cannabis seeds using this method.
- Rhodelization (Not Recommended!) - In the wild, some female cannabis
plants will naturally start making male pollen sacs or "bananas" which can self-pollinate the plant. This happens if the plant is stressed, or if the plant is not harvested in time and buds start to die of old age. The plant is basically doing everything it can to save the next generation. This method is "natural" and these seeds will all end up being mostly female, but the problem is you're selecting for plants that naturally hermie (grow both male and female sex organs) without any chemical
induction. This means the resulting seeds are much more likely to turn hermie in natural conditions too. That's a problem if you don't want seedy buds every time you harvest. For that reason, it's highly recommended you don't feminize seeds this way, and it's a good idea to toss any and all seeds that are the result of natural herming.
Read this article for more in-depth discussion about the pros and cons of each method, and how to avoid hermaphrodite plants when producing your own feminized seeds. Overview: How to Make Feminized Seeds
1.) Buy or Make Colloidal Silver - The instructions in the step-by-step link below will teach you how to make colloidal silver at home, as well as show you where to buy it if you don't want to make it (it's actually pretty cheap!). It's basically a solution of silver suspended in water and is available online and in health stores as a dietary
supplement.
What about gibberellic acid? I've seen with my own eyes that the colloidal silver method works for making feminized seeds, but I don't personally know anyone who has tried making feminized seeds with gibberellic acid. From what I understand it can be used exactly the same way as colloidal silver to induce female plants to produce pollen, but I'm not sure exactly how to
prepare a gibberellic acid solution that works consistently.
2.) Spray the bud sites of your known female plant daily during first 3-4 weeks of the flowering stage (until pollen sacs form and start splitting open) - After switching to a 12/12 light schedule, choose bud sites on your known female
plant, and spray/drench them daily with colloidal silver (or gibberellic acid). As the treated flowers develop, they will form into male pollen sacs. Untreated bud sites on the plant will form into female buds as usual; however these buds are unsafe to smoke unless you've been very careful to make sure they didn't come into contact with colloidal silver or gibberellic acid during the feminization process.
Pollen sacs opening up - harvest the pollen before the plant spills it all! 3.) Harvest "Feminized" Pollen -
When pollen sacs are ready to be harvested they swell like a balloon and start to open up. Make sure not to harvest early and also make sure to keep spraying the bud sites daily until this point or you might end up with empty pollen sacs! When the pollen sacs are ready, the leaf section protecting the pollen will start to crack. At this point it's time to collect the feminized pollen. One of the easiest ways to do this is to collect the pollen sacs directly and let them dry for a week. At that
point they can be placed in a bag and shaken to easily collect all the pollen.
4.) Pollinate Another Female Plant - At this point, take the feminized pollen you've collected and use it to pollinate a female plant that has been flowering for about 2-3 weeks (full detailed instructions with a video on how to do this is below). Although it's
possible to pollinate the same plant as the original, it's not recommended in part because the timing doesn't match up (attempting to pollinate buds too late in the flowering stage leads to reduced seed production). It's best to pollinate a different female plant that you started budding a few weeks after the original. This increases the number of seeds produced as well as gives the new female plant enough time to develop them to maturity. It also increases genetic diversity compared to
self-pollination.
5.) Wait ~6 Weeks to Harvest Seeds - After about 6 weeks from pollination, the calyxes on the buds of your female plant will be swollen and fat. You know it's time to harvest your seeds when they start bursting out. At this point, it's time to congratulate yourself because you've got
feminized seeds!
This seed is about to burst out of its calyx! Exposed! A new feminized seed! Now that you've gotten the general overview, learn more about the feminization process with detailed step-by-step instructions and more...
7 Ways to Improve Bud Quality |
Have you ever had weed that knocks your socks off? The kind of cannabis buds that people brag/warn their friends about?
I'm talking about the really really good stuff!
The truth is, you can
successfully grow cannabis with very little effort, make a ton of mistakes, and still harvest buds that will do the job.
But have you ever wondered how people grow truly top-shelf buds? The kind of bud that can beat the marijuana you get in a dispensary?
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If so, you're in luck, because today I'm going to teach you 7 tips to consistently growing top-tier quality cannabis buds with effects that will stick in your
memory for years to come. Plus I'll teach you how to make your cannabis look pretty!
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Thank you for creating such an informative site. Being new to growing cannabis, your site answered most of the questions I was seeking.
Bookmarked!
Regards,
SkyPilot |
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"4 weeks into flower ..not bad for my first" ~meeman
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