Thanks Jogro. I have read about spraying it with colloidal silver to do this. I was going to go that way, but I'm not sure where to get it.
You can buy it on Ebay.
You can Google it, and find out how to make your own.
I'm pretty sure you can even buy it at a pharmacy, though you'd probably have to fiddle with concentrations to get the right one for this application.
Then I read the other day that if you switched your lights to 12/12, then right in the middle of the dark cycle, give it an hour of light. Causing it to freak out and herm so it could still reproduce. Any knowledge about that ? It didnt not say, but implied this would work with any strain. I'm also not one to believe everything I read, until I have at least someone with first hand experience to verify it
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That might work. . .it might not, depends on the plant in question, how far along it is in flowering, etc.
The problem is, instead of making just one branch put out male flowers, "light stressing" it might made the ENTIRE plant put out male flowers, and that might not be what you're after.
Go google "Rodelization" for another chemical-free way of inducing male flowers for breeding purposes in a plant.
I have a personal trick for doing this I'm going to share here. I'm probably not the first one to discover/do this, but here goes.
Take your sexually mature female plant out of veg then and put it in TOTAL DARKNESS for three full days. Then put it into regular 12-12 flowering, and the first flowers it puts out "may" be light-shocked male flowers, then female afterwards. Use can use the pollen from the male flowers any way you like.
We can call this "JoGro-ization".
This might work on just one branch of a plant if you cover it with a light-tight bag. . .don't know. . .never tried it.
Im wondering if this is where the banks selling GSC seeds are getting them.
The GSC in ceed form is one of two things:
GSC S1, that is GSC crossed with sex-reversed GSC (eg via colloidal iron), or
GSC x something else.
Since patents are a federal thing, and pot is not legal federally. I would imagine they can't patent it.
Its quite a bit more complicated than that, but as a matter of practice, you can't patent a drug cannabis strain in the USA.
There is also specific judicial case law that you can't TRADEMARK a strain name either (and that's probably more important).
On another topic discussed in this thread. The GSC genetics. According to the High Times interview with James Loud. He said they crossed Cherry Pie, with Durban Poison to get GSC. He said they went through 10,000 plants, and took over a year to get it stable, and create the 4 phenos they work with today. So it seems it's not so secretive like some think. As it shouldn't be secretive. Since there is pretty much zero chance of creating it, even if you did cross those two strains yourself. It still would turn out different.
I've heard different stories, and don't know the truth about how GSC was created.
Don't much care, either.
