Bob Loblaw
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I'm not seeing anyone mention that you can sex your seeds before you grow them. Is this not a viable method? It seems to work for me. I will add that this should be able to be done with a machine.
Sexing seeds
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BooMtoLate
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Never seen this before.
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Bob Loblaw
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I find that odd.
Behind me in my avatar is organic hemp, I used to work for a farmer. We had a specialist from the USA helping us and we eventually tried producing essential hemp oil (produced with steam), anyway female plants would be preferred for this but bulk seed does not come sexed. That expert told me that there indeed was a way to have an all female crop... so I was told.
Expert's gone, I quit and time moved on. Anyway I think I found this on another forum which is now gone. I've been 100% correct when I tried. I use a 10X eye loupe.
Behind me in my avatar is organic hemp, I used to work for a farmer. We had a specialist from the USA helping us and we eventually tried producing essential hemp oil (produced with steam), anyway female plants would be preferred for this but bulk seed does not come sexed. That expert told me that there indeed was a way to have an all female crop... so I was told.
Expert's gone, I quit and time moved on. Anyway I think I found this on another forum which is now gone. I've been 100% correct when I tried. I use a 10X eye loupe.
Billpopy79
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I find sexing seeds very easy.
I go to the feminised section on the vault website and click buy
I go to the feminised section on the vault website and click buy
I've tried
It's pretty hard...and gave up
They don't look as ODVIOUS as in that pic...I have it too
It's pretty hard...and gave up
They don't look as ODVIOUS as in that pic...I have it too
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Bob Loblaw
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If they ain't perfectly round they ain't female. Any imperfection is either male or hermi. Use magnification, I find it mostly easy and any questionable ones are rejected. I put a questionable one in once and marked it... sure enough it was a boy. Thus I can say it 100% works for me.
Interesting
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Bob Loblaw
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Use all your seeds but check and mark them. That should tell you if it works.
Dankman_420
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I'll have to give it a try. Seems like fems would not be worth the process of making it this works. Thanks it's interesting
Lol
Problem I had wasn't seeing them it's seeing them.....lol
Holding the seed, or positioning it...then viewing it...
Was a pain for sure....guess a mini retractor or something might help....dunno
Dankman_420
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I have a usb microscope. Probably would work pretty good. Checkout this sm I was battling them last year
Jackalope
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Kind of like a nasty wreck. It is ugly but you can't look away. Great picture. Which one of those USB microscopes are you using? Do you like it?
Dankman_420
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Dankman_420
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It's stand is junk and it's kinda pain to use. But works like a champ
Jackalope
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Interesting I may have to look into it. I hated the first one I tried.
Your experience is very interesting. I tried selecting seeds based on this method in my current grow. As Chris Scorpio also mentioned, they were a bit of a pain to try and see, so I photographed them and blew them up on the computer screen to get a better look at them.
However on re-reading what you posted including the original method pics and text. I realize that I only focused on a uniform appearance of the 'crater'. I germinated 4 which turned out as 2 female and 2 male, 50/50. I also gave some to a growing friend who on germinating 5 or 6 and either got all females or only 1 male. So the seeds I selected for him did much better than the ones I selected for myself. He probably thought I was quite clever as I told him I had selected seeds based on this method that was supposed to identify females, altho I wasn't so smart in the picks I made for myself.
But the big difference with what you have done compared to what I did, was you (like the original method says) picked them on also being as perfectly round as possible. I didn't do this so much, instead spending more time peering at the craters and selecting based mostly on that criteria. Your results are very interesting for achieving 100% females. Next season I will try this again, and hopefully do it properly like the instructions specify and see what happens. As it seems to me you can't really lose in giving it a go, unless you get it wrong and pick out the males by mistake!
Just for interest, here are pics of the seeds that I selected for germination based on this method for this season's grow largely based on what I thought were 'good' craters, altho as stated I overlooked the importance of the overall roundness of the seeds. I wonder if these pics are enough for you to see which if any are obviously female by this method as opposed to being questionable in appearance.
BooMtoLate
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I was looking at some seeds under a microscope and I have female seeds that look more oval.
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Bob Loblaw
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Pic 1 the one on the right is female unless that tiny spot at 11 o'clock is an indentation and 1 o'clock?, the center one is male (nowhere near perfectly round), and the left one is hard to tell from that angle is it round or oval I'd likely give it a try looks pretty uniform.Your experience is very interesting. I tried selecting seeds based on this method in my current grow. As Chris Scorpio also mentioned, they were a bit of a pain to try and see, so I photographed them and blew them up on the computer screen to get a better look at them.
However on re-reading what you posted including the original method pics and text. I realize that I only focused on a uniform appearance of the 'crater'. I germinated 4 which turned out as 2 female and 2 male, 50/50. I also gave some to a growing friend who on germinating 5 or 6 and either got all females or only 1 male. So the seeds I selected for him did much better than the ones I selected for myself. He probably thought I was quite clever as I told him I had selected seeds based on this method that was supposed to identify females, altho I wasn't so smart in the picks I made for myself.
But the big difference with what you have done compared to what I did, was you (like the original method says) picked them on also being as perfectly round as possible. I didn't do this so much, instead spending more time peering at the craters and selecting based mostly on that criteria. Your results are very interesting for achieving 100% females. Next season I will try this again, and hopefully do it properly like the instructions specify and see what happens. As it seems to me you can't really lose in giving it a go, unless you get it wrong and pick out the males by mistake!
Just for interest, here are pics of the seeds that I selected for germination based on this method for this season's grow largely based on what I thought were 'good' craters, altho as stated I overlooked the importance of the overall roundness of the seeds. I wonder if these pics are enough for you to see which if any are obviously female by this method as opposed to being questionable in appearance.
Pic2 Left male right looks to be female.
I'm just a dumb old farmer, the info here is on my original post and it's just a save and share.. The key to that post are the underlined words, perfectly round and be very selective. The overall roundness of the seed is not the determining factor more like a tendency. The volcano is the determaing factor and perfectly round is the answer.
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Bob Loblaw
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It does say generally the males are flat the females are round. Not the determining factor. Most all my seeds are oval the round ones tend to be the immature ones in my view. I think of it as the females being a little fatter... how you say? bun in da oven.
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Bob Loblaw
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Oh yea I claimed 100% success, what I didn't say was I've only tried a few seeds... it's not like I went through hundreds or even dozens for that matter.
Last summer I used bag seed to start my next crop, I vegged one then cloned it..... turned out to be an autoflower... I went and bought some feminized seeds and been cloning that since.
Last summer I used bag seed to start my next crop, I vegged one then cloned it..... turned out to be an autoflower... I went and bought some feminized seeds and been cloning that since.
