Make your own feminized seeds.

for anyone interested, i looked all over for a guide on this about a year ago and couldn't find anything for the exact process. i decided to just give it a shot and had great success. all you need is 1ft of 14awg 99% silver wire(from ebay), an old phone charger 5v, ac/dc adapter @~5v, or a 9v batter(with a connector for it) and alligator clips.

first you take the wires of your desired dc power source and connect alligator clips on each wire. you take the 1ft solid silver wire and cut it in half. hook the power source to each section of wire with the alligator clips(while power is off)and suspend them in a quart sized mason jar of tap water or RO water(not distilled) and don't let them touch each other. kick the power on and about every 2hrs wipe the gunk off the wires that builds up with sand paper or scrape them clean with a razor. let it sit for a total of about 8hrs or so. this process makes your own colloidal silver.

NEVER CONSUME A PLANT THAT HAS BEEN DIRECTLY SPRAYED WITH COLLOIDAL SILVER!
colloidal silver will force a female plant to produce male organs(female pollen sacks).

now you are going to want 2 plants, preferably the same plant(clones). one is going to be your female for budding, and 1 is going to be used to get your pollen from. you will want the pollen donor to be small, why waste time growing a plant that its only use is to get pollen from?

start flowering both plants around the same time. now you spray the colloidal silver on only the plant you want to gather the pollen from. spray it once or twice a day for the first 3 weeks of flower or until it forms pollen sacks. after they form you don't need to spray them anymore but you can if you want let them mature until they are about ready to pop open(about week 4-5). make sure they aren't anywhere near your other ladies so you don't accidentally pollinate your room. To make sure they have pollen in the sacks you can pop them open manually with tweezers and watch for powdery pollen to fall out. once you know they have pollen in them you can cut them off and start popping them open over a glass slide. a little bit goes a long way.

now you are ready to pollinate remember to move your plant being pollinated out of the room to help prevent pollinating plants you dont want pollinated... you can use a mini paint brush and rub the pollen all over a branch on the flowering plant. or you can put the pollen in a bag and secure the bag over a branch and shake it for a few minutes. the plant you are pollinating you want to be at around week 5-6 of flower and takes about 3-4 weeks to develop the seeds and ripen. if all is successful you will see the pistils turn a yellowish color within the next couple days on the branch you pollinated only. eventually they turn brown and fall off. the calyxes will swell quite a bit over then next week or 2 and soon you will be able to see your seeds in them. make sure to leave the branch on until the seeds are tan or brown, you can harvest the rest of the plant when you want.

when the seeds are fully ripe you cut the branch and hang it just like any other buds. give them time to fully dry and finish ripening while drying. once dry the seeds will pretty much fall out with slight agitation to the buds. collect your seeds and let them sit out for a few weeks. at first the germination rate will suck, but once they are fully dry they should have a high germination rate.

 

almost every female plant will grow pollen sacks when sprayed with cs. since the female was forced to grow pollen sacks, its still a female and has no male chromosomes. from what i understand it inhibits a chemical needed to grow female flowers. since it cant if the chemical is inhibited it grows male parts. the resulting seeds are about 99% female, from what i hear. ive never seen a hermie or a male out of the bunches ive made.

 

see, i think that most of the hermie problems are from breeders using other methods to get the plant to herm, such as letting it flower too long, or stressing them out to a certain point. imo it also depends on the breeder and how stable the plants being used are.

from what ive learned, most of the mj population has herm traits, and most will show under stress regardless of being feminized or regular. imo its always a good idea to put one of your female clones through a stress test to see how strong it is, and at what point it will turn herm, if at all, before you use it to breed. I personally prefer using males and getting regular seeds just for selective breeding. if i have a strain i love and cant find a male by the time i get to my last seed, ill make feminized seeds. if all you are interested in is feminized seeds and keeping seed stock of it, id suggest giving it try.

 

yeh i have had and seen several hermies from dutch passion, blue berry and strawberry cough feminized seeds. then again ive also seen lots of others have great success with them. imo different batches of seeds from using different females could be the culprit. and those were genetic hermies, no matter what you do with them they will end up hermie.

 

the ones i had, would always turn at week 4-5 in flower, with just tiny little nanners in the female bud which were very hard to find. :/ oh well, it happens sometimes.