Why Breeders Still Buy Regular Seeds

Browse through most seed shops today and the regular section is the shelf at the back: smaller every year, marked lower than the feminized packs next to it, and picked up by a shrinking number of people who understand exactly what they are after. It is easy to read...

Inside the Breeding Room: Feminized Seeds

Tear open a pack of feminized seeds and you are holding the result of a quiet biological trick that needed breeders the better part of the 1990s to get right. Each one of those seeds has two parents, and both of them were female. Not a single male plant was involved...