Regular cannabis seeds are the only way to get started growing your own marijuana. It’s not easy though. They can be expensive and they take a while to mature. But with the right set of plans and a little hard work, it is possible to grow a good crop in just a few months. Here’s how.
Regular cannabis seeds are designed with two goals in mind: producing high-end male and female plants, and producing high-quality buds. As such, they enable breeders to produce better-than-ever clones and breed new strains. Use this article to find out what you should know about regular cannabis seeds for breeding. When combined with proper breeding techniques, these methods can create some truly spectacular strains.
When used to reproduce certain desirable characteristics, regular cannabis seeds can turn into feminized strains. In essence, the regular version of the plant is changed at the maturation stage. In doing so, you end up with a plant that has the potential to produce opposite sex flowers. This is known as cross-breeding and has been used for centuries to craft desirable traits.
There are many reasons why regular cannabis seeds won’t do the trick. Sometimes the flowers are small, too tall or just flat. Genetics can also play a large role in how the plant grows, with some traits becoming fixed and others becoming permissive. But even with limited environmental inputs, breeders can still successfully accomplish cross-breeding with other sources, creating feminized seeds for growing indoors.
In order to produce feminized plants, breeders must take steps to alter the conditions under which the plants are growing. Typically, this involves making the environment more similar to the environment of the female plants. The male plants are grown in special pots that help them reach full flower. The females are kept in similar growing conditions in an attempt to achieve the same effect. While cross-breeding the female plants, geneticists are also trying to eliminate whatever features the original male plants have that make them stand out.
One of the most popular ways breeders go about cross-breeding with other plants comes from the way that they create their own gene pool. By isolating and then encouraging the expression of only the desirable qualities in one parent plant, the result is a plant that is strongly dominated by that one trait. In turn, the result is a plant that has its own distinct set of ‘strain phenotypes.’ Cross-breeding allows the creation of a much wider gene pool than would be possible if the selection was simply based on one trait. In fact, the strain phenotypes become so natural that the plants often don’t even look like regular cannabis seeds.
While cross-breeding is the most common way that breeders work with marijuana seeds, it also occurs naturally through inheritance. If a relative or friend has a highly attractive, disease-free plant, the chances are high that you will want to grow that plant as well. The goal of many breeders is to encourage that trait so that it can be passed along to their offspring. By creating marijuana strains that are highly resistant or highly successful against a particular type of insect, breeders can create a wide-range of strains that have different characteristics that benefit the environment. Those traits may include differences in height, color, smell, taste or other traits.
When cross-breeding, some breeders also work with feminized seeds, meaning that the female plants are transformed via fertilization with male plants. These plants are considered viable for planting. However, feminized seeds are only suitable for growing indoors because they lack the tolerance for outdoor temperatures and moisture that male plants possess. Because of this, most feminized seeds are not intended for consumption; they are instead made available through specialty stores or other medical marijuana suppliers. Before purchasing marijuana seeds from seed banks, it is important to ensure that they are legal and safe, and will grow well in your environment.