feminized seeds vs regular opinions please

Hello,
just wanting a few opinions on wether to risk buying some quality non feminized seeds? I just have a small grow, 4 plant max space available. If bad luck strikes I could end up only running 1 plant or worse 0. Where as feminized is a sure thing.
Thoughts appreciated

How much of a gambler are you? I've run both ways. It is heartbreaking to have to kill your best looking plant(males seem to be prettier till they start flowing) but reduced chances of herming. I've had success with feminized(hell, I've made some of my own) but genetic instability is more possible.
If cuts are a possibility go that way, just be sure your IPM is on point.

Always go fem unless you can't or breeding.

Run feminized till you get a good stash... Then you can gamble!

The Dankstar said:

Always go fem unless you can't or breeding.

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yeah had a feeling it might go that way, just leaves some breeders out. ah well

Girl it up, I still remeber (before internet and sales of fem seeds...wasting so much time on plants that ended up as males. 7 out of ten seeds one time were male. Waste of time and $energy.

Ya, I ran 9 plants and only 1 was female. Such a waste of time in this round. 8 beautiful males.. The luck of the draw.
Fem seeds for me as I lost time in the short growing season here.

I like girls

You can pay maybe $10-$15 a pop extra to have your plants sexed by one of the available services and know for sure within a couple weeks of sprouting instead of months.

A lot of feminized seeds aren’t as stable as normal seeds that end up female. But if your environment is dialed in and you don’t stress them out too much for too long you won’t have much problems if they’re from a good breeder. I will never grow a non feminized seed again. Plus if you get a hermie you can probably get some free good fem seeds from it

I also vote for paying extra for fems.

It depends what you're trying to do. If you just want to grow some plants for smoke then get feminized. If you want to make more seeds of the strain get regulars. If they're quality regs it's easy to isolate a male and use the pollen to make more seeds. Buy once grow forever.

Fem all the way. Especially the more plants you have. My last run was non-femd - wanted to end with 10 plants so started with 20. So much soil, water, work, nutrients, training, just to chop half.

Got my first fem'd seeds from ILGM, all germ'd and all females.

Observe & Report said:

You can pay maybe $10-$15 a pop extra to have your plants sexed by one of the available services and know for sure within a couple weeks of sprouting instead of months.

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Which service would you recommend in Canada?

VolimPicke said:

Which service would you recommend in Canada?

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Dr green thumb based out of Canada has good genetics. Can also use attitude seed bank and others.

xtsho said:

It depends what you're trying to do. If you just want to grow some plants for smoke then get feminized. If you want to make more seeds of the strain get regulars. If they're quality regs it's easy to isolate a male and use the pollen to make more seeds. Buy once grow forever.

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Something to be said for both - fem seeds make girls - mostly..... (herms)

Reg seeds are - well - reg.
Taking my first trip down that rabbit hole - I kept 2 boys and 2 girls from this run aside to make seeds.
Currently a seed run with Herijuana, next up is most likely Malana --- thinking of a Herijuana / Malana hash strain.

It's a lot of fun, and I'm learning yet another facet of growing my favorite plant - I can see this becoming a habit.........
I've been very tempted to post this shot as a "Ready to harvest?" pic. as a joke

Grow reg and learn to sex them.

If you grow guerilla style, then grow females.

Sexing plants is really not that difficult and once you learn how to sex them it opens up a lot more choices as far as breeders are concerned.
Then you can choose any strain you like, feminized or non-feminized.

Sexing plants is a useful skill to learn, and it gives you more options once you learn to do it.

Back again with questions and thoughts.
I am curious if growers have had issues with high male to female ratios in their regular seeds? I bought 2 strains of regular seeds from a reputable breed/ grower for a high price of $100 for 10 seeds. I planted 4 seeds of each strain and ended up with 8 males. Thus $80 for males and no females. I had hoped to perpetuate these strains and get more seeds to work with. Luck of the draw I know but...
As such, my feeling is regular seeds should be half the price of fem seeds being as statistically one should have a 50/ 50 chance of males versus female. In my case I ended up with 100/ 0 males versus female and not sure I will ever buy seeds from that breeder again with such high ratios of males.
I grew other breeder seeds side by side with the pricey breeder and got the typical 50/ 50 ratio of males/ females so it was not technique but the seeds themselves.

Funkentelechy said:

Sexing plants is really not that difficult and once you learn how to sex them it opens up a lot more choices as far as breeders are concerned.
Then you can choose any strain you like, feminized or non-feminized.

Sexing plants is a useful skill to learn, and it gives you more options once you learn to do it.

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I know a few people who say reg seed grows better weed.