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In many seed banks you will see feminized seeds for sale which guarantee a high amount of females. Feminized seeds are made when female plants are pollinated by hermaphrodites, which are females that grew male sex organs after being stressed. The resulting seeds are much more likely to be females, however, these plants are also much more likely to turn into hermaphrodites when given the smallest amount of stress, such as a power outage. This means seeds and less potent weed. GROSS. Because of this, it is more economical to use clones from a female mother plant to get multiple females, opposed to buying seeds that can easily become eh. We prefer to not have seeds in our marijuana for obvious reasons and it does in fact decrease the potency of your marijuana when the plant has to deflect energy into seed growth opposed to buds.

Cloning is an easier option which can be done to any degree of insanity to reach the produce you need. Of course, you take clones from a very favorable female plant which can be up to thousands since you are able to keep one marijuana plant alive for years by keeping it on a vegetative life cycle. This is great because you always know what kind of plant it is going to be and won't have to risk males at all. Hermaphrodites can always be caused by stress, but it will be a lot harder than if starting with a feminized seed prone to it.

Silver Thiosulfate Solution is sprayed on female plants to turn them into males, which will produce all female seeds.