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Yes there is a way to insure you get more females. Just put all your seeds in dry ice for a day. 24 hours exactly no longer than that, it has to be exactly 24 hours to work. It will change all but about 5 percent to female. Sounds like pretty good bro science hey? It is just that, no different than anything else on earth. Once the DNA has sequenced the sex of the plant is set so I am just commenting on something I find hard to believe was even asked!!!Other than buying feminized seeds what can you do to get more females?
The age old question.
I’ve never done more than to just put them in either rockwool. Perlite and vermiculite or soil and cross my fingers.
Lol
I’ve got 12 Oishii seeds that I bought from Archive seeds in USA and I forgot about the conversion. I had light speed as well.
It was around $400. Then it was around $600 total on my credit card. I looked and said wtf!!!!!!! I contacted Archive seeds.
I said what’s going on?
You charged me $600 when the seeds were only $400. Sent him a picture.
He said he’d look into it that it didn’t make sense.
About 2 hours b later it hit.
I apologized.
I got fucked by forgetting the exchange rate and I made an ass of myself…lol
The never ending game of weed
That's really cool you tried that.Actually, there is some bro science out there that I tried. I heard this from an old California grower on a now-defunct grow site, like this one, so I thought I'd give it a try. Also, maleness and femaleness in cannabis seems to be not quite set in stone, sometimes.
He said to do two things. One is to keep the seedlings no warmer than about 70 F (21 C) for the first week after they break the surface of the soil. The second is to supply a source of ethylene, like a ripe apple or banana.
I tried various combinations of these treatments over 4 grows, and this is what happened:
For two grows I kept temperatures low and provided an ethylene source. I got about 60% females total, but some strains were more like 80%, while a Bubba Kush cross was only 40%.
For one grow I supplied the ethylene source, but the temps were not kept low. It was about 80 F. I had about 40-45% females.
For my current grow, I kept temperatures low and did not provide an ethylene source, and got 60% females.
I still suspect all of this is bro-science, even though what I have seen points to cool seedling temperatures having an influence. I think a much larger experiment would show that none of this has an influence.
I read that in Barry's voice. Mmmmmm. You just did too.barry white 6 hours m,w,f - i've heard of good success using a jazz adaption of al green's hit's called "al green - smooth jazz plays"
At what point does a female plant with balls and bananas become a dude?Yes there is a way to insure you get more females. Just put all your seeds in dry ice for a day. 24 hours exactly no longer than that, it has to be exactly 24 hours to work. It will change all but about 5 percent to female. Sounds like pretty good bro science hey? It is just that, no different than anything else on earth. Once the DNA has sequenced the sex of the plant is set so I am just commenting on something I find hard to believe was even asked!!!
At those prices you better back up those genetics! You got a plan in place to make clones / moms or whatever?12 reg seeds Oishii
6 feminized light speed
Oishii mean’s delicious in Japanese
Light speed was one of the top 5 strains I’ve grown. 30 years growing.
Looking forward to justifying the money spent. Archive seeds rock but pricey
If the plant hermits as a result of genetics it is because of the DNA. DNA can get damaged or there can be splicing issues. This even occurs in humans. I only know this because a person I worked with had a child with Down syndrome. Down syndrome is caused by an extra pair of chromosomes. Plant DNA can get damaged as well. I believe the sex of the plant is set once the chromosome pair up.At what point does a female plant with balls and bananas become a dude?
If I was to convert a female to 100% boy parts, you couldn't really say the sex of the plant was all in the dna, could you?
Probably bro science, but maybe not... an alligator's sex is determined by what temperature the eggs are incubated at... my brain's store of useless knowledge didn't make note of the exact temps, but I believe lower temps make females, while higher temps make males... so it's not totally off the wall that it could happen in seedlings.Actually, there is some bro science out there that I tried. I heard this from an old California grower on a now-defunct grow site, like this one, so I thought I'd give it a try. Also, maleness and femaleness in cannabis seems to be not quite set in stone, sometimes.
He said to do two things. One is to keep the seedlings no warmer than about 70 F (21 C) for the first week after they break the surface of the soil. The second is to supply a source of ethylene, like a ripe apple or banana.
I tried various combinations of these treatments over 4 grows, and this is what happened:
For two grows I kept temperatures low and provided an ethylene source. I got about 60% females total, but some strains were more like 80%, while a Bubba Kush cross was only 40%.
For one grow I supplied the ethylene source, but the temps were not kept low. It was about 80 F. I had about 40-45% females.
For my current grow, I kept temperatures low and did not provide an ethylene source, and got 60% females.
I still suspect all of this is bro-science, even though what I have seen points to cool seedling temperatures having an influence. I think a much larger experiment would show that none of this has an influence.
What if not dna?If the plant hermits as a result of genetics it is because of the DNA. DNA can get damaged or there can be splicing issues. This even occurs in humans. I only know this because a person I worked with had a child with Down syndrome. Down syndrome is caused by an extra pair of chromosomes. Plant DNA can get damaged as well. I believe the sex of the plant is set once the chromosome pair up.
I 100% agree with this that if a plant’s sex can change based on environmental stresses dna is merely a suggestion. A plan to follow in a good growing season.While there's no denying genetics, is there a reason to believe maleness and femaleness in cannabis is black and white, as it usually is with mammals? I don't think so.
When I determine which plants are male, I base it 100% on morphology. I don't know if I'm seeing a male flower on a "female" plant, similar to a female that was sprayed with silver thiosulfate. Obviously environmental factors influence flower morphology.
This could be an evolutionary feature. The plant's interest is getting its genes out to a new generation. Perhaps evolution has stumbled onto the observation that a warm spring means a hot, dry growing season, where many female plants will not survive to full seed production. In that case, the best chance of getting those genes out there in the world is sending them out as airborne pollen.
Bottom line is that when I see a male, I'm not checking DNA, I'm only looking at morphology.
Well anyway, that's the reason I didn't totally blow off the notion of influencing plant sex with environmental factors. All it would take to prove it is a large experiment.
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