is there ne way u can increase ur odds of getting a female

[johnnyd]

is there ne way u can increase ur odds of getting a female. I just planted 4 seeds and i want to make sure i get females, or at least increase my chances.

I have heard of people putting the light on for an hour when it is dark or something like that.

[unoit]

HIGH All, no you get what nature gives you. Chances you have are 50/50.

[froggy]

well sense this is adv growing... i will have to disagree with unoit a bit.

he said it right except that chances arnt 50/50.

they are more like 55% female 45% male.

that is just the way nature works with females being a tad bit higher in populations.

[gingerman]

dutch passion say.....
after 1st set of proper leaves.. give the plant less light(18/6) more nitrogen, less humidity and lower temps (78degs) for three weeks to give a better chance of getting females..... revert back to normal growing procedure after that...... i get about 80% females with this method...never much less.....later

[unoit]

Originally posted by froggy
well sense this is adv growing... i will have to disagree with unoit a bit.

he said it right except that chances arnt 50/50.

they are more like 55% female 45% male.

that is just the way nature works with females being a tad bit higher in populations.

HIGH All, *LOL* I won't disagree with you...it's up or down. Some times you could get 55% Males and 45% Females and sometimes you could get 80% Females and 20% Males and sometimes you could get 10% Females and 90% Males...I said 50/50 because chances are.............I mean look you get a bag of weed and it has some seeds, who's to say most of those seeds in the bag are Male and couple are Female. So 50/50 seemed easier to say for someone of little or no experience

[froggy]

heehee this is adv growing

the reason i say this is because in the wilds of the world...females more important than males and even in human populations...females outnumber males 55%/45% about.

just the way things work out.

[Big Poppa Puff]

Originally posted by froggy
heehee this is adv growing

the reason i say this is because in the wilds of the world...females more important than males and even in human populations...females outnumber males 55%/45% about.

just the way things work out.

for humans, its about 53% of births are male, 47% female. By the time humans reach reproductive age, its balanced out to 50/50.

And for the original question, for the average grower, the only way to ensure more females is to start off with female clones or to try feminized seeds.

[pooponastick]

there are ways as poppa was saying to feminise seeds. BTW your light cycle should not exceed 18/6 anyway hahaha i am hardcore on that!!! Anyhow thanks to a good freind BKS for this:
Hi everyone! I figured this is a sight more advanced so I thought I'd post it here. I am a little early in the flowering for smoking stage of my life (without seeds), but I have been a long time breeder of seeds. This method should give you if say you planted 20 seeds: aprox 14-16 should be females (yay!) 1-3 hermies (shruggs) and 1-2 males (boo!). I have found that it takes about 2-3 breeds to get it to that point. Take two female maryjanes (choose your fave and best plants, better genes) and they HAVE to start as females neither can begin as a natural hermie or they can but results are kinda, meh'. Stress one into being a male or a hermie. Allow that male/hermie to polinate your other female plant (oh how wrong does it feel to encourage seeds, I know!) Then your result will be some partialy feminized seeds. Those are okay you'll likely get a good portion of females and a slightly smaller portion of hermies, but now you take two positive females from your partially feminized batch and repeat the process. After that, those seeds should give you female results about 80% of the time! Nothing says you only have to do it with two plants at a time either, grab a good selection of your best girls and stress one into male and get lots o feminized seeds, the possibilities are limitless! This is the way I have been doing it and it's worked okay for me. I hope this little trick 'o' the trade helps you all out! Peace and happy growing!This is still in it's very early stages for me, right now I'm only in my first grow specificaly for harvest w/out seeds stage with the seeds I have bred, but as of yet (for this small batch) I haven't gotten a single hermie or male. I had a scare, thought my beauty of a WW girl was growing balls but it's actualy more of a mutant female who was growing extra pistils and white hair nodes *whew* Maybe it works best for white widow, again I'm very unexperianced. I can tell you though that while I was growing specifically for seeds after my first female stress and polinate the 15 plants I grew for their seeds after that I had 2 males and 4 hermies. That was 9 nice normal (well if I do say so my self I chose some geneticaly nice plants for the stressed and reg girls I used so they were nice and bushy *blush*) females. I stressed one of the regular females and polinated a few of my bushier nicer females and this is where I am right now. Since moving I have only a teeny space to grow but the 2 ww I have both turned into lush girls and one of them is mutantly huge. Then again it could all be luck and I'm just giving myself too much credit. I'm not sure, I'd love it though for others to try this technique with other strains and let us know how it works, I just had heard rumor a couple years back and thought I'd give t a whirl. Maybe it was just the seeds I bought and started from that are doing this in the first place *shruggs* But I encourage others to try and let us know what happens! Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any constructive critisicm anyone has to offer.
BKS is a very talented indoor lady gardener and has a great green thumb most off this info is hers, as i did not feel like typing it out again, but i personally have used these types of methods with great results myself outdoors in my outdoors history.

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so how do you stress a female to become male.

[TheHempMan]

how big does the plant have to get until you know what it is male or female.

[gingerman]

I have also read somewhere that the most vital time... when the seed is sort of initiating gender so to speak.....is the 3rd -4th week of veg ...when,if your growing conditions are as near to perfect and your plants are not under any stress ie....under/overwater,under/over fert etc,etc,etc .....more females..upto 90%...i will try to find where i read it and post it

BTW probably wrong,..but i was under the impression that seeds were sort of asexual or whatever????

[gingerman]

Easiest way to stress a female is to mess about with the photoperiod or a light leak or summat

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I just dont see how it is possiable to turn a budding female plant in to a male with pollen.
or does the female grow male flowers making it a hermi

[gingerman]

yea it's a hermie but a hermie has got pollen

[gingerman]

I grew some plants from feminised seeds that hermied late on and the seeds all turned out female