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Autoflowering cannabis seeds

January 8, 2010 Posted by admin

In the marijuana seeds industry there is a new trend that seems unstoppable: the autoflowering cannabis seeds. But what does it mean autoflowering, and why are they so requested? To answer this question we need to look a little bit closer at the lifecycle of a female cannabis plant.

A long summer of waiting

In nature, the cannabis seeds germinate in mid-late spring and each female plant grows for the whole spring and part of the summer. Then after june 21 (assuming we are in the northern hemisphere) the lenght of the night start to grows. The plant react to the longer period of dark and in the begin of august it start to show the sign of the flowering. The flowers mature then in about 2 further months. For a marijuana grower, this mean one of these 2 things:

- to wait till the end of the summer before having the flowers ready to be harvested

or

- to provoke artificially the flowering.

The second solution means that each plant must stay in the dark for about 12 hours a day for the whole flowering period. If this condition is not satisfied, the plant will simply not flower. Or it will even stop the flowering process and re-start the vegetative growth.

Autoflowering cannabis seeds: a fast growth solution for a world that run faster and faster.

After 2 decades of selective inbreeding, the cannabis industry has managed to produce seeds that generate female plant that will complete their lifecycle in about 60 days, from seedling to a perfectly ripe marijuana bud. They deserve the adjective autoflowering because they flower independently from the number of hours of dark received every day. They complete the flowering even under 24 hours of light per day. For the growers, this mean to get a very fast harvest under the most different conditions and in the most various locations, indoor and outdoor. Autoflowering cannabis seeds have given the possibility to grow to people that for reason of space or time had never grown marijuana seeds before. The techniques of productions of these kind of seeds are now mature. Compared to the traditional strains, it is today possible to get 90% of the harvest of 85% of the THC content and at the same time, to save 33% of the time.

Paco Lanciato is a breeder of the Ministry of Cannabis team, specialized in the autoflowering cannabis seeds production.

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Why did Feminized Cannabis Seeds become so popular?

January 8, 2010 Posted by admin

Most of the websites that sells cannabis seeds nowadays have in stock only feminized cannabis seeds. 10 years ago they were considered something for professionals, but now everybody grows them. Why did they become so popular? To answer this question, we have first to know a little more close the cannabis plant, and consider the purpose of the production.

The marijuana is the mature, unfertilized (not pollinated) flower of specific cannabis strains, selected for their high contents (>5%) of THC and other cannabinoids. Given this definition, it is easy to understand why the growers are only interested in female plants.

The revolution in the cannabis seeds industry

Each cannabis plant in nature can be male or female – the male produces the polm that fertilize the female plant, that develops seeds. This is quite unusual for an annual plant, but so it is. These “regular” cannabis seeds can generate both male and female plants, in various proportions. There is no way to pre-determine the sex of the plant looking at a seed.

The only way to select female plants was, till a few years ago, to grow a larger number of regular seeds, give them time enough to flower till the sexual characters showed up. At that point the male plants were manually eliminated. This meant to grow more plant than necessary and throw away many of them. What a waste of cannabis, time and money!

Feminized cannabis seeds have been created to satisfy the need to have only female plants out of the seeds. The experiments started in the early ’90 but the technology start to be fully mature around 2005.

What are exactly the femminized cannabis seeds and how are they produced?

The feminized cannabis are produced starting with selected clones of plants of very high quality. In the Netherlands it is common choice to start with plants that are used for coffeshops production. These female plants are sprayed with special silver salts, this provokes the production of male flowers. But the polm in these flowers will only carry the female chromosome. Once crossed with another female, the offspring will only be female.

Are there other advantages?

Beside the fact that feminized seeds generate only female plants, there can be other advantages. One of them is that is possible to “clone a plant as a seed”. Of course this expression is scientifically ridiculous, but it gives really good the idea: crossing a plant with itself will carry out to the offspring a great number of the characters of the mother-plant, resulting really similar to a clone. The growers of a plant that is illegal in most of the planet seems to appreciate the predictability most of all!

Paco Lanciato is a breeder of the Ministry of Cannabis team, specialized in the feminized cannabis seeds production.

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