Growers, of any species of plant, whether professional or amateur, are cut from a different cloth than most. Seeds are not a problem, but a boon with enormous potential.
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Regs and pheno hunts for this guy preferably, I still enjoy fem seeds as well but the large majority of my collection is geared towards heirloom/oldschool stock. Although I’ve been tossing in a few fems with each run recently
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I only buy regs. I have a system to sex out plants for before OD spring planting .
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I’m an equal opportunist… I even buy reg autos from time to time and considered focusing on them as a breeder. You want to talk about not selling… 
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stay-at-homers loved the fem beans.
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I have 2 friends who grow and have children, and basically all they do is fems or clones because they can’t justify the time commitment to cull the males.
I can’t blame them. I’ve told them about Bluemats, 12/12 from seed, and how soil doesn’t become useless from veging a small plant for a few weeks, but at the end of the day, I spend dozens of hours a week on forums, and they got other shit to do. I live for this, they have to make time for it.
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I love reg’s.
I’ll run a fem, if I can not find that strain in a reg.
I, personally have zero desire to run auto’s.
And, I also see why auto’s are very popular, drop a bean, mark the calendar, set a timer, look in on it, once a week or so, cut, dry, fill jars.
Reg’s are just my thing, maybe due from my bag seed beginnings hunting for plants.
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I don’t entirely see how this works… most genes aren’t sex-linked, so logically you could get fems with all the same genetic markers at the same place as males, other than specifically sex-linked genes. The males would express differently, so with fems it’s actually easier to see standout phenos and select them, if you want to do selection-based breeding. With an OP, if your numbers are sufficiently high in the first place it should make no difference whether you’re breeding with fems or regs. Of course, almost no one actually uses sufficiently high numbers in the first place, so in practice you’re right - but it’s not because fems are deficient somehow. We bottleneck our lines through luck of the draw because we can’t plant fields of ten thousand without getting thrown in cages. Culling males increases that bottlenecking, but only because of the lack of diversity we’re working with in the first place, IMO. That, and it removes sex-linked genes, which should make no difference because we only care about males for breeding. You can keep them in the gene pool but you’ll never get the females to carry them anyway.
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@Cormoran
Maybe I misspoke… 
You make some good points, I was only spit ballin’ there…
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Same here! I usually choose Regs if given the choice, but I don’t mind fems. I used to avoid fems like the plague back when they first hit the market but they’ve definitely come a long way since then. I still probably run more regs but I do run a lot of fems now too.
I have never run autos. No real interest. Like you said, I get why others like them. But when I run a strain, my goal is usually to find a keeper mom. That’s not really an option with autos (afaik).
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The best use I ever heard of for autos is to throw a couple in you veg tend when popping seeds, so that way you have something to puff while the rest of your plants get big, cloned, flowered, etc…
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Most growers I met bought fems then complained about never finding keepers
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I’ve found keepers in a lot of fems. I complain about either not taking a clone, or killing my clones. 
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All my purchases are Regs
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If you want to truly see the value in autos, you give them great conditions, ideally hydro, 24 hour photo periods, and train them for max yield. Yield wise a photo doesn’t stand a chance, and the buds can be indiscernible from a photo in many cases.
Growing them as fill in during a photo run or treating them as any other cannabis plant doesn’t do them justice.
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Iv lost alot of good clones. I quit using cloning machines and rockwool and domes - I take 10 or so now in wet starter plugs put them in a small bucket cover and seal with cling wrap put it on a heating mat under light and wait a week or two without opening. Soon as roots poke thru the plug it goes in a solo cup with soil. Has worked pretty solid
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Legalization and regulations are already here. As a coloradan where reefer is legal dispensary weed is heavily regulated, and no matter how good it looks in the jar or bag the effects are gone in like 30 minutes…
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This 30 minute high thing confuses me to no end
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As a Californian, They even cardboarded Mothers Milk. 
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When water is placed under a microscope it is supposedly said to have a unique structure. These structures changing with the energy around it. Words said to it and so on. I’d speculate that the plants don’t feel the required emotional connection and companionship needed to produce a truly transformative array of cannabinoids and secondary metabolites. Water is so much of a plants life and being. So much of it’s structure is shaped on the water passing through it’s cells. This is a hypothesis I believe is true of all living beings. True of all water. Many blessings and much love
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