White Widow Regular Seeds: Males and Females for Breeding and Mother Plants

Specifications of Regular White Widow and How Male Plants Differ

The table gives figures for the female plants in a regular pack, which are identical to the feminized plant in potency, yield and timing.

Male plants are listed separately because they behave differently: they flower a week or two earlier, grow taller and thinner, and produce pollen rather than resin. Ranges reflect phenotype variation, which is wider in regular seed than in an inbred feminized line — that spread is part of what breeders are buying. The grow and sexing guide explains how to tell the two apart in time.

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Why Regular Seed Is the Closest Thing to the Original White Widow

When Scott Blakey — Shantibaba — crossed a Brazilian sativa landrace with a South Indian indica in Amsterdam in the early 1990s, the result was a regular seed line, because no other kind existed. Green House Seeds released it, Arjan Roskam built the company’s reputation on it, and the 1995 High Times Cannabis Cup win fixed it in the canon. Every plant that competed, every clone that passed between Dutch growers, and every parent used to breed White Russian, Blue Widow, Moby Dick and White Rhino came from regular seed.

Feminized seed, which arrived at the end of that decade, is produced by reversing a female plant to make pollen. It is reliable, but it narrows the line to the two females involved and removes the male half of the gene pool. Regular seed keeps that half. This is why breeders and preservationists insist on it: a male White Widow carries traits — vigor, branching, resin inheritance — that cannot be recovered from feminized stock. It is also why Shantibaba, after leaving Green House for Mr. Nice Seedbank, continued his original selection as Black Widow in regular form only. The regular line sold here is maintained by open pollination among selected males and females every few generations, which keeps the population broad rather than inbred.

The male White Widow: what breeders look for

A good male shows the traits a breeder wants to pass on: early vigor, tight internodes, strong branching, and — the test that matters — resin glands on the stem and calyx-like structures of the male flowers, which correlate with resin in the daughters. Males that stretch excessively, flower very early or show any female flowers are removed. Of ten or twelve males in a pack, a breeder typically keeps one or two for pollen; the rest are culled before they open. Pollen from a chosen male, dried and frozen, remains viable for a year or more.

Descendants bred from regular White Widow

• White Russian — White Widow × AK-47 (Serious Seeds); regular and feminized.
• Blue Widow — White Widow × Blueberry (Dinafem); sativa-leaning.
• Moby Dick — White Widow × Haze; tall, very high yield.
• White Rhino — White Widow × North American indica (Green House).
• Black Widow — Shantibaba’s continuation of the original (Mr. Nice); regular only.

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Effect and Potency of Plants Grown From Regular Seed

A female plant from regular seed is, in effect and potency, the same White Widow as any feminized plant — the genetics are identical, and only the sex-determination route differs.

What regular seed adds is variation: within a pack of twenty-five, a grower will see phenotypes that lean a few points toward sativa or indica, which is the raw material for selecting a keeper.

Phenotype spread: sativa-leaning and indica-leaning expressions

Most plants fall at the strain’s center — a quick cerebral onset followed by body relaxation, two to three hours, no couch-lock at moderate doses. Perhaps one in five leans sativa: taller, longer flowering by a week, a more energetic and talkative effect. Another one in five leans indica: shorter, denser buds, heavier relaxation in the second hour. A breeder choosing a mother decides which expression to lock in. Side effects across all phenotypes are dry mouth and dry eyes, with mild anxiety at high doses reported by a minority of low-tolerance users. Effects vary with tolerance, dose and cultivation, and reports of help with stress or appetite are user accounts rather than medical findings.

THC in regular-seed females

Lab-tested females from this line fall between 20% and 25% THC, within the family’s 18–26% range; the spread between individual plants is wider than in feminized seed — a 20% plant and a 25% plant can come from the same pack. CBD is below 1%. Males contribute no usable cannabinoid content. Growers wanting a milder plant can find the CBD 1:1 version in the seed types section; breeder figures are in the table below.

Terpene inheritance through the male line

Myrcene, caryophyllene and pinene define the aroma — earthy, peppery and pine — with limonene, linalool and humulene beneath. Terpene expression is heritable through both parents, and a male that smells strongly of pine when its stem is rubbed is more likely to pass a strong profile to its offspring. This “stem rub” test is one of the few ways to assess terpenes in a plant that will never flower. Female plants are strongly aromatic from the fourth week of flower; indoor rooms need a carbon filter.

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Growing Regular White Widow Seeds: Sexing, Selection and Seed-Making

The cultivation itself is the same easy, mold-resistant White Widow grow as any photoperiod plant. What changes is the workflow.

The grower must identify sex in early flower, remove or isolate males before they shed pollen, and — if the goal is seed — manage pollination deliberately. The guide covers both the standard flower-only path and the breeder’s path. Temperatures are in both scales; outdoor timings assume the northern hemisphere.

• Days 1–5GerminationPaper towel, dark, 21–25 °C
• Weeks 1–6VegPre-flowers may show at nodes 4–6
• Flip +7–14 daysSex and cull malesEvery plant declares; cut or isolate
• Flower weeks 3–10Buds, or pollinationFemales flower; chosen branches seeded
• +3–5 weeksDry, cure, or seed harvestSeeds mature in 5–6 weeks

Germination and vegetative growth

Paper-towel germination at 21–25 °C (70–77 °F) in the dark produces a taproot in one to five days and is the method the guarantee requires. Seedlings start in small pots on 18/6 light, 65–70% humidity, no feed until the third set of true leaves. Veg runs four to eight weeks at 20–28 °C (68–82 °F) with a nitrogen-leaning feed. Because half the plants will be removed, growers start twice as many seeds as they want finished plants and give each only moderate space until sex is known. Topping is held until after sexing so effort is not spent on males.

Sexing plants: pre-flowers and the first two weeks of 12/12

Some plants show sex in late veg: at the fourth to sixth node, a tiny structure appears at the branch junction. The reliable moment is seven to fourteen days after the flip to 12/12, when every plant declares.

Flowering the females for bud

With males gone, the remaining plants flower as any feminized White Widow: 8–10 weeks at 20–26 °C (68–79 °F), humidity falling from 50% to 40%, feed moving to phosphorus and potassium, carbon filter running from week four, stakes for heavy colas from week six. Harvest at mostly cloudy trichomes with 10–20% amber; dry seven to ten days at 15–21 °C (60–70 °F); cure two to four weeks.

Making your own White Widow seed

1. Week 3–4 of flower

   Isolate the male and collect pollen

   Move the selected male to a separate space with its own air; let it open and collect pollen on paper or foil, then dry it for a day.

2. Week 2–3 of flower

   Choose the mother

   Choose the best female (or several) at two to three weeks into flower, when pistils are fresh and white.

3. One session

   Pollinate a few lower branches

   Apply pollen with a soft brush to a few lower branches only, so the rest of the plant stays seedless; mist the room off for a day first and keep fans down.

4. 5–6 weeks

   Label and let the seeds mature

   Label the branch. Seeds mature in five to six weeks, turning dark and striped; harvest when they resist a fingernail.

5. 2 weeks

   Dry and store

   Dry seeds two weeks, then store cool, dark and dry. A single pollinated branch yields 50–200 seeds.

Indoor vs outdoor with regular seed

Plants and yield from a regular pack

The table applies the 90% germination figure and the 50/50 sex ratio to each pack size, then the indoor yield of 80–100 g per female plant. Ratios are averages: any single 10-pack can produce three females or seven.

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Regular Seed Against Feminized, Autoflower and Fast White Widow

Regular seed is the cheapest and the most genetically complete, and the only type that produces males. Feminized photoperiod seed gives the same females with no sexing. Autoflower seed finishes in 10–12 weeks at under a meter but cannot be cloned or bred conventionally. The fast version is a feminized photoperiod line a week quicker to finish. A CBD 1:1 White Widow with about 7% THC and 7% CBD exists in feminized and auto form for growers who want a mild plant.

Who should buy regular White Widow seeds

Breeders, anyone hunting a keeper mother from a wide phenotype pool, growers with space to start twice as many seedlings as they will finish, and growers for whom price per seed matters more than convenience. A grower who wants only flower, has limited space or cannot commit to checking plants daily in early flower is better served by the feminized or autoflower packs.

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Regular White Widow From the Breeders Who Still Offer It

Fewer seed banks sell regular White Widow than feminized, and the versions differ more, because regular lines are maintained by selection rather than fixed by reversal. The table reports breeder-published figures without ranking.

The in-house regular line is maintained as a population: every three generations, twenty selected females are open-pollinated by six selected males, and seed is taken from all of them. This keeps vigor and phenotype breadth that an inbred line loses. Growers seeking the narrowest, most uniform regular White Widow should look at Paradise’s IBL; those seeking the original selection, Mr. Nice.

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Buy White Widow Regular Seeds: Lowest Cost per Seed, Breeder Packs and Guarantee

Regular packs start at ten seeds — the minimum that reliably yields four or five females — and run to one hundred. Per-seed cost is a third of the feminized price, which is why regular seed is also the choice for large outdoor plots where a few extra seedlings cost nothing. Bonus seeds are added to every order, orders above the regional threshold ship free, and bulk and wholesale quantities are quoted on request. Stock is live from the seed bank’s own warehouse.

Germination guarantee on regular packs

Ninety percent germination on every pack. If fewer than nine seeds in ten sprout using the paper-towel method in the guide, support is contacted within 30 days of delivery with a description and, where possible, a photo; replacements ship free. Sex ratio is not guaranteed — it is biological and averages 50/50 across a pack, but a 10-pack can produce three females or seven. Growers who need a fixed number of females should buy the 25-pack or feminized seed.

Bonus seeds and bulk pricing

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Shipping, Tracking and Payment

Orders leave the warehouse within one business day in plain packaging naming neither contents nor sender. A tracking number is emailed at dispatch.

Delivery times by region

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Legal Status of Regular Seeds, Breeding and Responsible Use

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Breeders and Growers on Regular White Widow

Reviews are from verified purchasers of this seed bank’s regular seeds and include sex ratio and dry weight where reported. Negative reviews remain published and are answered; germination complaints are handled under the guarantee.

See regular pack options.

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Regular White Widow Seeds: Breeder and Grower Questions

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