What Are Feminized Marijuana Seeds?

Feminized marijuana seeds are seeds that only contain female genetics and produce only female plants and buds once grown, which, unlike male cannabis plants, can produce THC buds that are strong and potent. Any person who’s ever smoked a joint, devoured some edibles, or dabbled in concentrates needs to thank the humble marijuana plant. Or more importantly, the female plant.

You see, when a marijuana plant grows naturally or with traditional breeding techniques, the yield will produce both male and female species of the plant. The male species typically gets discarded as it isn’t as much use to the grower. Male plants don’t give high psychoactive effects.

What’s more, a male plant will contaminate the females by pollinating them, leading to a fully unusable yield. Traditional breeding sees growers planting double the amount of seeds with the knowledge that around half the seeds will be useless.

Is this method of planting twice as many seeds and throwing out half your harvest practical? No, it’s not. And that’s why growers are turning to feminized marijuana seeds as a solution. Keep reading to find out more about these little gems and why they’re so important.

 

How to Feminize Marijuana Seeds

First, it’s time to familiarize yourself with a little Marijuana Seeds 101 thanks to Leafly, so you know where the whole process starts and how it will affect your yield.

• In order for male and female cannabis plants to reproduce, the males must pollinate the females using their pollen sacs. This causes the female to sprout seeds.
• After these seeds mature, the female plant will die, and these seeds have one of three options. They either get harvested to make into food products, get down into the ground later, or drop onto the ground naturally where fresh plants will grow next Spring.
• In order to avoid this, growers will plant feminized seeds without male plants around, so that the female plants produce buds instead of the seeds that eventually cause them to die.

Now that you’ve got a better idea of the meanings behind feminized and male cannabis plants, let’s cover How to Feminize Marijuana Seeds. The general aim here is to help the female plant produce pollen sacs, just as a male would. These sacs are then harvested to pollinate more female plants, which results in all-female seeds.

Use Colloidal Silver or Gibberellic Acid

Colloidal Silver is a silver thiosulphate solution that is sprayed onto the female plants, which then lets you manage the sex of the plant without any kind of modification. Colloidal silver is a mixture of silver and water and is readily available online. You can also make it yourself.

Use this solution to spray the bud sites of the plant each day for a period of up to four weeks during the flowering – this is when the pollen sacs begin to form and start opening. Remember not to smoke any plants that have been sprayed with colloidal silver.

You can also use gibberellic acid. It is a hormone that also triggers germination, but it is less commonly used as it isn’t as efficient.

Gather the Pollen

You’ll know when the sacs are ready to be picked when they have swollen and grown. Be careful not to harvest before the sacs have opened. Otherwise, they might be hollow. Keep spraying with the colloidal silver solution if needed. You can go about harvesting the pollen in several ways, such as putting a plastic bag over the plant or using a plastic cup to catch falling pollen.

Continue the Cycle

Now you can take this harvested pollen and fertilize another female plant. We suggest pollinating a whole different plant rather than the same one. It boosts the number of seeds and also creates more diverse genetics.

Simply take the pollen on a small brush and place it on the developing buds of another plant. From here, wait about five to six weeks and the calyxes of the buds will swell up. This means it’s time to harvest those seeds – and there you have it! Your own feminized cannabis seeds.

 

Where Can I Buy Feminized Marijuana Seeds?

You’ve come to the right place for the best feminized marijuana seeds on the Canadian market. At The Seed Pharm you’ll find over 200 strains of marijuana seeds for sale, and that includes some of the best feminized varieties. Explore them for yourself, but in the meantime, take a look at some of our best-sellers in the feminized seed range.

 

 

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

Feminized seeds are the most efficient way to grow marijuana. You don’t have to worry about wasting so many plants by throwing out half of your yield, so you’re saving plenty when it comes to time and money. Feminized marijuana seeds are also perfect for both indoor and outdoor growing. While these seeds are more preferred by beginners due to their limits in genetic and strain diversity, they are a great way to start out when learning how to grow cannabis.