Does it matter if seeds are reg or fem if you’re only keeping ladies?
Does it matter if seeds are reg or fem if you’re only keeping ladies?
No.
Sort of.
Some context:
Earlier this week, I made a post about sex testing.
Among the responses, one piece of advice stuck out:
If you grow feminized seeds, you don’t worry about sex testing.
But there’s a lot of growers who say the exact opposite:
Never grow feminized seeds; regs only!
So who is right?
And does it matter?
Short story:
When I first started growing,
I thought “reg” packs were “breeder packs”
(For finding a stud TO BREED WITH)
If you weren’t looking for a male, feminized was the route.
This is highly reductive.
But it shows the assumptions we all make.
›› Fast forward ›› through the “bag seed” cycles
When I started popping seeds from actual packs
I noticed this bias continue:
