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What is that?Really nice Friday, gonna be a great weekend.
Not only did I get a bunch of beans, including THC Victory, but this arrived as well:
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Short Path Distillation, here I come.
Why not?I read cherry pie somewheres but not a fan of fem seeds.
Why not?
So what are the easiest high THCV strains to obtain seeds for right now?
Woah.
There are also many growers here who grow from feminized seeds without issue.From Norcal Farms:
Question: What is a feminized seed?
Answer: Here’s what High Times had to say…
Some of the best breeders in the world offer feminized lines and more join them every day. They’re big in Europe, representing over 90% of sales in some countries, states Green House seeds.
Feminized genetics are ideal for quick and easy growing and flowering, Sensi Seeds writes. “With feminized seeds, gardeners decide how many bushes they want, germinate that number of seeds, then simply grow, flower and reap their rewards.”
Breeders make feminized seeds by stressing a female plant into growing male sex features like pollen, and then using this pollen to fertilize another female. The resulting seeds lack male chromosomes.
Stressing products in use include eliteXelite, the hormone giberillic acid, or the more popular silver thiosulfate solution, Cervantes said.
There is little difference in aroma, flavor, and THC levels between a regular and ‘fem’ variety, High Times reports. But feminized seeds got a bad reputation due to early efforts with plants that had high hermaphroditic tendencies.
“The problem with this method is that subsequent generations will have the same latent intersex tendencies. Stress also brings on inter¬sex tendencies earlier,” said Cervantes.
Modern techniques coax pollen from highly unhermaphroditic strains, but they’re still not the best mothers.
Hard core growers turn their nose up at feminized seeds, Cannabis Culture writes, and prefer mother plants and clones. But outside The Netherlands and North America (where shipping seeds breaks federal law) cloning isn’t as popular.
Feminized seeds are great for growers without access to clean clones, or for demoing an exotic strain you can’t get in clone form locally, or for folks that don’t want to clone their own — especially newcomers, and guerrilla growers.
MORE: It has been our experience that feminized seeds suck. Because a Feminized seed has been treated or stressed to become Feminized, all of that trauma and or hormonal treatment is turned into genetic information that is carried on to offspring. Seeds that are feminized are NOT stabilized sexually and in our OPINION, they are weakened and confused. Feminized plants tend to freak out from any stress from lighting, feeding and or temperature. Using Feminized seeds can become your worst nightmare when you find your finished crop has seeds! *A quick note and reminder that Feminized seeds may also be an unstable strain as well as unstable sexually.
There are also many growers here who grow from feminized seeds without issue.
I will say, when you think about the stress testing credible growers do for feminized pollen donors..it is a very firm selective pressure that for regs is not there in the same way and so that pressure can go elsewhere.
For instance, rasta Jeff talks about spiking the pH in plants, exposing them to half a week of a light schedule change mid flower, very aggressive training and defoliation, drought, etc.
Sure, a plant that won't throw nanners at any of that will accept a lot of abuse and still produce sinsemilla, but as a gardener i don't necessarily personally want to select for "can be grown by many flavors of imbecile." Plant only needs to put up with one. So i might select a different plant for my own needs.
And then put the thcvictory on it!Alright, who's gonna do it? Put the NOVARINE and the VARIN G together! If I wasn't using landraces for my project, I would for sure run these two together!
And then put the thcvictory on it!
Yeah. Again, i think people can do fine. I am running fems right now.most of what I have grown has been fem. The thc victory only comes fem. I’ll bet I have grown 100 fem plants and never a hermie.
I think any argument for or against any fem seed is a generalization. Use the best tool for your job and adapt.
taking possession of a vanguard "midas" in the next 3 weeks.Bwaahahahaaaaaaa
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Coupla valves and fittings and I'm in bidnezz. Using the same chiller and vacuum pump as the RotoVap to save money. I certainly don't need to run them at the same time.
That is very interesting!
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