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I have a batch of regular/random freebies- seeds and attempted to sex the seeds by the seed shape and attachment point appearance.

While I have no idea if there is any creedence to this hocus/pocus- It won't hurt to try by planting the identified Fems first- and then grow all of them following the recommendations listed above.

I'm a very small personal grower and plan to begin this in a couple of months, but may take a year to complete- and retest.
 
Feminizing seeds involves transforming a once female into a male. Using the she-he, you pollinate a normal female. Since the female was turned into a male it carries no male chromosomes. The resulting progeny is theoretically female. Seems nature can be manipulated but you'll still find a rare male from now and then, from my research.

Mother nature seems to always hold the trump card. She will always be the exception to the rule, IMO.
 
Unfortunately there's no way to know for sure what the gender is just from looking at the seeds. There's a graphic that's been floating around since the 2000s that claims it shows you how to do it but it's been basically debunked. I also find it telling that in nearly 10 years I've only ever see this one graphic and never a real grower showing how to do it with real seeds in pictures or video.

From the growers I know who've tried using following the graphic, some say it doesn't work at all, and some say it's not perfect but works more than half the time. I guess that is better than random, but not good enough to bet your grow on. The other problem is sometimes you'll get regular seeds and none of them will "look" female, even though you know half of them are.

If you use the seed identification method on regular seeds you'll always grow a bunch of boys and unintentionally throw away some girls. Thats why breeders and commercial growers never use it and stick with feminized seeds or clones when they're growing for bud instead of breeding.

In fact, even the temperature and humidity during the first few weeks of life can change the ratio of males and females from a regular batch of seeds! So gender doesn't even seem to be set from birth anyway! If it's cool and humid during the first 3 weeks you'll get more female plants, and if it's hot and dry (or plants get stressed), you'll end up with more male plants.

We have a discussion going on about it here if you're interested!
 
I definitely would recommend at least trying to germinate them! I've had seeds that looked questionable but turned into great plants. If they don't germinate make sure to contact the seed bank! Most of them will resend them for free if there's a problem with the seeds.
 
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