That's subjective. Some of us refuse to use fems, because they offer no natural males. For some, fems are great. You could also find your perfect mother taking chances with regs, and then make your own fems from her.
You know i am a scientist by formation, vegetal biologist i must add... and i am tired of ideology over fact that i see in every community. You know when you try to enter a community and you must blindly accept all it's ideology to be accepted, but personally i prefer think by myself.
Of course i respect the fact that reg are the true natural thing, i will never ask to offer only fem of course, but we should have a choice. That is one of the two thing i dislike with bodhi : stick with reg by ideology (that i do not share), and the fact that his male are not stable enough (except the g13hp of course that is ibl). Of course bodhi don't sell expensive seeds, also by idelogy and he has really great thing, that is why i support his work. Also he seems to start to offer stabilize line as male, like the purple unicorn (i will receive the F5 soon
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But honestly male are real pain in the ass for people like me with limited space in one of the most severe country for growers. So yes male are a waste of time and space.
Fact is fem have bad reputation because a few tards make them with hermie, but honestly STS is not hard to do and no hard to use either. People with no knowledge will stick to the "fem suck, it's full of hermie, compare to reg that are stable and potent" for absolutely no reason or real argument. It's the kind of guy that will say "when you cross a full sativa with a full sativa you will get a 50%, if you cross again to an indica you get 25% " or this kind of nonsense.
Fem won't produce more hermie and the pollen produce by the reverse plant is exactly the same except it could be only X and never Y. And also breeding with female only is so better, you can smoke the female but you cannot smoke a male (well in fact you can but it is also not "natural"), this make all the difference with the selection of your parent... Of course you will say "it's the knowledge of the plant and it's the skill of the breeder to select a male". Of course it's true but it's so much easier with the fem way.
Another example of stupidity is the hate for S1, when it's a fantastic tool for breeding. People think S1 is some kind of waterdown shit, "not the real deal" or something alike. I won't start a genetic lesson but as you know the best way of doing breeding is to cross two stabilized strain, so when you make your F1 you regain the hybrid vigor and get a true stable F1. So if you want to stabilize a line for breeding you can win many generation of stabilization by working with self-pollination instead of the classic F1 F2 etc. With self you will remove 0 to 50% of the genetic material of the mother at each generation, so it is so great to remove the trait you do no want and most import, remove the "hidden" recessive that you don't want...
