Regs (regulars) is slang for regular seed: seed made by pollinating a female with pollen from a genuine male plant. Expect roughly a 1:1 ratio of males to females, though any single pack can vary.
In practice
Breeders and preservationists prefer regs because they carry the full genetics of a line, including the males needed to make the next generation. A grower who pops 10 regs and gets 6 females and 4 males has a normal result; the males can be culled, or kept, assessed and used for breeding. Sexing happens at pre-flower, from about 4-6 weeks of veg from seed, or earlier by forcing a clone into flower.
Don't confuse with
- Fems: feminised seed, made with pollen from a sex-reversed female, almost all female.
- Autos: day-neutral plants; they can be regular or feminised.
- Bagseed: unknown, often accidental seed.
Myth check
"Regs are worse than fems." Not on genetics. Regular seed is how cannabis has always reproduced, and males are half of every line. GenetixBay encourages and rewards keeping males (see the Stud Book). Fems save space, not quality. See seed types.
Pollination is the transfer of pollen onto a female flower's stigmas; in cannabis it is usually by wind, or by hand when breeders pollinate chosen branches to make seed.The first individual flowers that form at stem nodes during late vegetative growth, letting a grower tell male from female before full flowering.Fems is slang for feminised seed, made with pollen from a chemically sex-reversed female so nearly every plant grows female.Feminised seed is seed made by pollinating a female with pollen from another female (or itself) that was chemically reversed, so nearly every seed grows into a female.A day-neutral cannabis plant that starts flowering by age, usually a few weeks after germination, regardless of light schedule; the trait is mainly recessive.Bagseed is a seed found in purchased flower, of unknown parentage and often the product of accidental pollination, including by intersex plants.The Stud Book is GenetixBay's showcase of documented male plants, with selection journals, keeper details and sire credits; males are encouraged and rewarded.Regular seed comes from a normal cross of a female and a male, so it produces roughly half female and half male plants.Beans is slang for cannabis seeds; "popping beans" means germinating them.
