Autoflowering cannabis seeds
Regular cannabis seeds contain both male and female flowering buds in an ideal ratio of 50/male. To determine which is which, the cannabis seeds must be either germinated and grown in soil with good nutrition or exposed to natural light. It is best if the young seedlings are removed from the plant immediately after they have sprouted. This allows the gardener to determine which of the two sex buds is the male. Once it is determined, it is easy to cross the two bud types to make a cross breed.
Crossbred cannabis seeds will contain one set of female flowers and one set of male flowers. A feminized cannabis seed will contain one set of male flowers and one set of female flowers. This makes them much easier to cultivate.
The best way to get started breeding with feminized cannabis seeds is to get started with the best traits. The best way to do this is to take a clove of the plant that you wish to breed. Remove any green foliage and dry out the clove. Place it in a dark place with low moisture. Leave it alone for about a week to ensure that the clove is fully ripe before you remove it from the heat and place in your compost pile.
When the clove has developed a strong yellow color, it is ready to receive its pollen from a friend or other growers. Find someone in your community that grows with feminized seeds and have them contact the grower. Growers may sell their excess seeds to these growers. Once the pollen has reached its destination it will be ready to go to the next step in the breeding process.
After the first crop of plants has grown and been harvested the seed packages are separated. The best way to identify the plants grown with feminized cannabis seeds is by the appearance of the leaves. If the leaves appear greenish-black or purple they are the seeds that have been grown with feminization. The next step is to look for a specific characteristic in the leaves. If the leaves look larger than the rest of the plant it is likely that the plant came from a cross pollinated plant.
Autoflowering cannabis seeds like feminized cannabis seeds contain the appropriate chromosomes from only one parent plant. The flower buds are not affected by whether the parent plants come from one sex or the other. When autoflowering cannabis seeds are used to produce high-quality marijuana buds they are usually crossbred with high-quality cannabis plants that are found in the same region as the autoflowering cannabis seed. By crossbreeding a high-quality plant with a low-quality plant the plant that produces the highest quality buds will be chosen. In some cases autoflowering cannabis seeds are also crossbred with regular cannabis seeds to ensure that the final product contains a combination of regular and autoflowering genetics.
Some growers chose to use feminized cannabis seeds because of their faster growth and better yields. However, most experts agree that most yield-wise benefits come from regular cannabis seeds. Some feminized cannabis seeds are crossbred with regular cannabis seeds to remove some of the characteristics found in feminized plants. This process removes many desirable traits found in autoflowering cannabis seeds but it may decrease overall yield. Growers who only want to grow a small amount of plants may consider using only regular cannabis seeds.
Most breeders prefer to work with regular cannabis seeds. In order to crossbreed regular and autoflowering cannabis seeds the grower must carefully remove all male cells from the female plants before she crosses her seed with another plant. Crossbreeding can produce desirable qualities in either sex of the plant but this process is often very difficult or even impossible. Hybrid plants between regular and autoflowering can be created but this process is quite tedious and therefore the majority of breeders prefer to crossbreed regular cannabis seeds with those intended for autoflowering instead.

