How Do Feminized Cannabis Seeds Work?

Regular cannabis seeds are created when a young cannabis plant interacts with a mature female cannabis plant during the lifecycle of the plant. Male marijuana seeds are released from immature pollen glands and blown by the wind or carried by a gardener until it reaches the right receptive plants on the female side of the plant‘s range. The resulting seeds are placed into small containers for germination and allowed to flourish until the plant needs to be cuttings or transplanted.

Seed banks can be established from regular cannabis seeds that have been feminized through a process which allows the female to grow a full flower head. This allows for the female to reproduce a large number of seeds before the normal period of one to two days without blooms is over. Most seed banks are designed to allow for a continuous selection from a variety of high-quality cannabis plants, whether feminized or not. These types of seed banks can grow a continuous selection from one plant year-round. Once these seed banks are established, the gardener maintains them by regularly adding new plants to them or removing old plants from them. In addition, some seed banks may include instructions for hybridization and cross-breeding, which allows any number of cannabis plants to be grown from them.

There are some advantages to using autoflowering seeds. In general, they provide an extended period of flowering for the marijuana plant, allowing it to produce several high-quality crops each year instead of just one or two. Many researchers have noted that the quality of the plants grown with regular seeds contain more of the prized chemical compounds than those produced with feminized ones.

Some disadvantages of using autoflowering seeds include the difficulty of producing consistent sizes of buds. Also, with most of the standard varieties, the plant‘s mother plant must be suitable for producing regular cannabis seeds, and it must also be suitable for the female plants to which the cloned clones are added. Some of the more popular types of hybrid cannabis plants (like the genetics behind the strains Lemon Haze and Strain Train) are highly feminized, and even their daughters are susceptible to the clutters that come with such conditions. Some hybrids are created with autoflowering DNA from a third parent, but the process of creating such mother plants can be more complicated. Finally, many modern day growers utilize hydroponic technology to achieve an abundance of productivity in their gardens.

Because of the difficulty that growers in the cannabis industry face when trying to get high-quality plants to flower consistently, some of them have found a solution: producing feminized cannabis plants. The process of feminizing an entire plant has been around for a while, but it was not until recently that companies outside of California were able to use this technology to make it happen. This is a relatively recent development in this growing industry, and because it is still fairly new, some people may find themselves wondering what the fuss is all about. After all, even with recent technological breakthroughs, the production of regular cannabis seeds contains characteristics that are very similar in all plants. So why does the process of making feminized cannabis plants work?

It may seem like a very simple process. If you take two cannabis plants that are of roughly equal proportions, and then “transplant” them together, the resulting plant should share certain characteristics. After all, it only takes a single transplant to create two plants grown to the same proportions, so why not just pick a similar type of plant and do the same thing? This is what allows the production of feminized cannabis seeds to occur. By crossing two strains of cannabis with each other, the result will be plants that are more likely to produce the desired traits in a marijuana crop.

This is a simple science, but it is important to understand how the process works. To begin with, marijuana plants are kept in controlled environments where the mother plant is kept under a great deal of artificial light, so that it develops its male characteristics (the plants grow taller and heavier). The mother plant also produces sperm, which is necessary for cross-breeding, and the resulting plants are transferred over to the harvesting and curing facilities, where the feminized cannabis seeds are transformed into a product ready for sale. The process is very efficient, and very few legal growers in the world use this method to develop feminized cannabis seeds. Most seed dealers and feminizer manufacturers do use this process instead.

In order for the process to work, it must be possible to isolate the exact female genetics responsible for producing regular cannabis seeds. Many cannabis breeders have developed hybrid strains, or siblings that have a very close resemblance to one another, but carry only one or two additional genes that make them gender-specific. It is not known if any of these genes actually code for gender, or if they are purely random genetic mutations. Nonetheless, some breeders continue to strive for fully feminizing their lines, and have succeeded to a certain extent. Some feminizers have achieved complete feminization of many cannabis strains, even though it has become very expensive and time-consuming.