smokeybandit22
Well-Known Member
very nice work panhead. I have read though all of the posts. Have a strain that always spits out 30-40 male flowers during it's 2ndn and 3rd week of flowering at he internode where a female flower should be. Like it is confused. Usually have to pluck them all off and never had a problem with them reappering.
I picked up some revers and was suprised to find there were no mixing instructions on the bottle. anyways, I sprayed 2 plants real good right before flower and middle of 2nd-3rd week. Go for my inspection today and find the sme exact amount of balls as usual. 35-40. No difference I could see whatsoever. The one thing I did notice was the balls plucked off much easier, some fell off when I hit them. I have a strain that likes to go full bore hermie-kept it to try the reverse on. Sprayed them before flowering and going to spray again in a few days. Should know in about a week if any effect.
The only info I could find on manipulating plant sex was the use of Ethylene gas, the kind a rotting banana peel will give off. Supposofdly, the excess of this gas will encourage female flowers and the complete removal will encourage male flowers. Think there was a product called Staminit! for breeders.
I too have found out that most strains will try to pop out some banana's late in flowering. plucked one off today, was a calyx with 2 pistols and a nice green banana finger. Intersexe I believe it is called-not necessarily hermi. I think hermie relates more to plants that have equal parts of male and female flowers and intersexed mostly female with occasional male.
In conclusion, I will post my results and fortunately can say that pollinating another plant is not as easy as it sounds. I have had full bore hermies in with straight up fems all at same age of flowering and the fem maybe, maybe had just one seed.
I picked up some revers and was suprised to find there were no mixing instructions on the bottle. anyways, I sprayed 2 plants real good right before flower and middle of 2nd-3rd week. Go for my inspection today and find the sme exact amount of balls as usual. 35-40. No difference I could see whatsoever. The one thing I did notice was the balls plucked off much easier, some fell off when I hit them. I have a strain that likes to go full bore hermie-kept it to try the reverse on. Sprayed them before flowering and going to spray again in a few days. Should know in about a week if any effect.
The only info I could find on manipulating plant sex was the use of Ethylene gas, the kind a rotting banana peel will give off. Supposofdly, the excess of this gas will encourage female flowers and the complete removal will encourage male flowers. Think there was a product called Staminit! for breeders.
I too have found out that most strains will try to pop out some banana's late in flowering. plucked one off today, was a calyx with 2 pistols and a nice green banana finger. Intersexe I believe it is called-not necessarily hermi. I think hermie relates more to plants that have equal parts of male and female flowers and intersexed mostly female with occasional male.
In conclusion, I will post my results and fortunately can say that pollinating another plant is not as easy as it sounds. I have had full bore hermies in with straight up fems all at same age of flowering and the fem maybe, maybe had just one seed.