Why should you buy regular cannabis seeds instead of getting them through a bud? Well there’s really two main reasons. Regular cannabis seeds aren’t as high quality as many of the new hybrid and designer types. Regular cannabis seeds aren’t as pure marijuana seeds which have been chemically modified or even genetically transformed in any way. Therefore, they don’t contain the same nutrients that you’d find in high-end marijuana varieties. They are basically pure genetic material, bred by females and males from only their parents and without any other humans involved.
This has many advantages over traditional feminized cannabis seeds. First, they tend to be more potent than feminized plants. It’s all because the mother plant is basically taking care of itself during its entire life cycle. After it gives birth to one or more daughters, it stops reproducing. The daughters then start to take over the growing process from scratch and grow stronger every time they get a chance. But since the process is still basically the same, the potency level of the regular seeds you can buy is significantly higher than those you would get from a hybrid or designer marijuana strain.
Another advantage to buying regular cannabis seeds is that they’re easier to get. Just like with getting seeds for indoors grows, you can easily get your hands on them at various different locations. You can go to your local gardening store, your local seed shop, or online. No matter where you go, chances are your local garden center or seed shop will have what you’re looking for, so all you have to do is go ahead and order.
When you buy regular marijuana seeds, you get a lot more than just standard type. Some varieties are highly-balanced and produce super-good plants. Others are highly-unbalanced and can be a burden on the environment. It’s best to get a mix of the two, meaning you should pick a flower which is in the perfect flowering stage (the flowering stage is the part of the plant which is pollinating and growing its fruit, creating seeds) and has a strong base so it can withstand tough conditions and the harsh elements outside. It should also have a fast-flowering period so you don’t have to wait for weeks to see some results.
When it comes to getting feminized seeds, many growers get the cheapest available option and that leads to some pretty poor-quality plants. Some cheap growers take shortcuts like crossingbreeds, and this can be disastrous on your end. Crossbreeding eliminates all natural selection within the plant, replacing it with a lot of common traits that have nothing to do with each other.
This means that cheap growers tend to crossbreed a lot of common strains with each other, resulting in strains which are not only weakly-developed, but are also weakly-similar in many other ways. Crossbreeding is a real problem for anyone who wants to try to cultivate their own marijuana seeds online, unless they want to be making regular mistakes with the plants they buy. Even if you’ve been growing your own cannabis from scratch for years, there’s no reason you can’t get a high-quality product with minimal effort involved. Just find an established, high-quality hybrid like Outdoor Manuka and crossbreed it with the Colorado clone for a high-quality indoor garden.
If you want to go the male route, just know that many plants don’t go through the flowering process at all until they’re about to produce seeds, so getting a female cannabis plant will make no sense. An indoor female marijuana plant can still flower and produce seeds, but it can take years before the first sprouts come out. If you’re looking for a quick way to start growing marijuana, getting a female plant would probably be your best option. On the other hand, if you want to learn how to cultivate a high-quality crop, even on a tight budget, then going the conventional route is probably your best solution. Once you’ve figured out how to crossbreed your outdoor marijuana plant with a male plant and get a quality crop, then you’ll probably never go back!
Hopefully by now you have a better idea of why you should buy regular cannabis seeds instead of autoflowering and feminized seedlings. Crossbreeding a marijuana plant with another that is highly-similar in looks, development pattern, and yield level will almost always result in disaster, unless you have unlimited access to highly-grown outdoors cannabis. There’s no guarantee you won’t have to waste time and effort trying to grow a feminized plant that produces little or none at all. In some situations, the opposite may prove to be true, but unless you have unlimited access to a highly-developed outdoor feminized marijuana plant, going the conventional route will almost always get you what you want.