Feminized Seeds Hermie Test - 14 strains, which are high risk; frequency; DM Reverse;

shit im always trying to get bannanas to grow on good females. i light stressed a deep chunk/strawberry cough and a jack the ripper and there producing some pollen it took a while though there almost at harvest im going to cross to tahoe og kush clone hopefully the resulting fems will be more or less herm free.its one thing to buy seeds and make a mistake that causes stress its another when you do everything right and it herms on you that sucks. i have heard of reverse i have not used it as i have not had issues but i wonder what the active ingredient is.

bicycle racer have you tried leaving part of your plant growing weeks past the harvest date to get late flower hermies? As I understand it they come out in all (most?) strains in late flower as a desperate attempt to pollinate itself. Some of the breeders on here mentioned that they collect pollen this way.

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"have heard of reverse i have not used it as i have not had issues but i wonder what the active ingredient is. "

I've been wondering that too, I'm going to put some more time into research now that I've got my garden rearranged. I'll see what I can dig up on Dutch Master Reverse and post what I can find over time.


Dutch Master Reverse


From Dutch Master: "the selected minerals and amino acids in this product assist the plant in channelling the correct metabolites in the pathways responsible for flowering, correcting any imbalances like the one that causes hermaphrodism (male flowers)."

Questions:

1. What are the minerals and amino acids in DMR? (can we make it ourselves inexpensively?)

2. How do they really stop hermaphrodism?

3. What internal processes cause hermaphrodism in genetic and stress hermies?

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yeah thats how i made my pre98 bubba kush fems and fem crosses. it works with most strains but is time consuming but yeah it works most the time. im testing gibberelic acid and coloidial silver also im trying to find the best way. i have heard some people use aspirin which is synthetic salicyclic acid which is found in willow trees people use it as a rooting compound or as a stress inducer to protect against insect problems. some say they have used aspirin on females as a way to force pollen production but im not sure on that one. if that was true it would be great i think the dosage is like 800 to 1000mg a gall as a foliar spray early or 2 weeks before 12/12 ill do a test with that method at some point. i have also heard of using ionized cobalt though i have done little research on that method. i figure there must be more ways not yet discovered to make fem seeds as basically most foliar spray methods have an effect on ethylene production. well see how the pollen i collected from light stress works in a cross and what % of herms if any it produces.

maybe reverse does the opposite of what people do when making fem seeds it may increase ethylene production im interested in any info you find on it. so do you feel the product works well? i have not used it myself. but if it works well it would be good to have on hand my local hydro store stocks it always.

Hey BikeR, I was wondering if you were using the colloidal silver or not. Seems like the way to go to me, but that is based on some ideas I'm not sure are true. I seem to recall someone talking about using it on one branch and the effect being isolated to that branch. That would be ideal because you could grow a whole crop and theortically finish a cycle with no extra hassles of extralong flower or two cycle to see the results.

One treated and bagged branch for pollen and One pollinated branch for seed. Plus making colloidal silver is cool.

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Hey BikeR, I was wondering if you were using the colloidal silver or not. Seems like the way to go to me, but that is based on some ideas I'm not sure are true. I seem to recall someone talking about using it on one branch and the effect being isolated to that branch. That would be ideal because you could grow a whole crop and theortically finish a cycle with no extra hassles of extralong flower or two cycle to see the results.

One treated and bagged branch for pollen and One pollinated branch for seed. Plus making colloidal silver is cool.

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i've removed branches that were infected and remove them ,the res of the plant done fine,lol.funny, i never got hermies till everyone started talkin about it.carma,lol.

yes you can treat 1 branch with coloidial silver and only that branch will be affected so the remaining crop can be smoked besides silver is relatively non-toxic compared to sts even ga is not really that toxic at all there is a lot of misinformation concerning ga. sts is very toxic but works the best but i dont use it because it is so toxic. i make my silver with a battery charger and ro or distilled water. its best if the ppm is around 1000 it should be sprayed at 3 day intervals a week or two before 12/12 and then for a few days in 12/12. i started spraying a tahoe late in flower so we will see if it works at all i have some pollen from a jtr and a deep chunk/strawberry cough i will use if i cant make s-1's of the tahoe. at least then i will have preserved the tahoe dna in a cross.

I ordered Nirvana feminized SEEDS!

im 1 week into flowering and saw that 3 plants out of 28 start to grow nuts! No white hair just nuts!

I mean when does it show signs of nuts + white hair so its hermies.

I only see signs of nuts!!! that means its 100% male. But how is it possible when i ordered feminized seeds from nirvana!!!!!!

Nirvana fem seeds and greenhouse fem seeds suck. Ducth passion fems arent so hot either... imo

I'm 5 weeks into flower for a Barney's Red Diesel clone. It's in the same res as a Bubblegum clone (same time in flower), and 3 Kali Mist which are 2 weeks younger. I had excessive hermieing in both the mother and a clone my last grow, this time I sprayed the Red Diesel with Reverse once a week for 3 weeks (roots as well) - so far not a hint of a banana.

Check in next week.

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I can vouch for this I had 2 Blueberry DP 2 Super Lemon Haze GH 2 Alaskan Ice GH and 1 Diesel G13 and 4 clones of Ultra Haze2 going and sure enough the fuckin DP Blueberry got to all but 3 of my females. I can def say watch the fuck out if you are interested in the BLUEBERRY Dutch Passion.

Haze2 were the Greenhouse or G13 strains feminized?

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Those are all very reliable companies from what i have read but i'm very surprised you have not included anything from Paradise Seeds mainly their feminized products.
The strains i use are whiteberry and sheherazade feminized. The results are fantastic with no hermie issue whatsoever in 18 months. I give them top marks in each of the categories mentioned in the seedbank reiews. Check out their product info from their website. Paradise does not ship to the USA. I currently operate 2 1000w HPS ballasts (air cooled) with Eye Hortilux bulbs in a 4x8 area for 80 plants and get between 40-42 ounces per harvest of whiteberry in 45 - 50 days. Fucking gorgeous babes they are. Btw, I AM CANADIAN AND LIVE IN ONTARIO AND LOVE IT. Peace fellas

Yes everything was female 100% Hobbes

I am personally growing a feminized big buddha g bomb.I'm 7 weeks into flower, so far, so good.I'm impressed with the size of the plant, even though it is only under a 150 watt hps.It blows my first grow of ice away.Both ice went hermie.

im growing some fems of my own creation some pre98 bubba kush crosses and also some bag seed og kush fems that were probably from a herm issue in a big grow. well see how the og's go i have grown seeds that were from similar situations that grew out fine with no herming well see. i normally would not bother but it might be a good og so worth testing.

I believe the problem is inferior genetics or just the method they use to produce female seeds. I have grown Warlock fem. several times never had a hermie. The last crop I had all kinds of issues. First of all it got nute burn really bad, then the 400 watt hps bulb burnt out (I had to switch it with a metal halide for about a week until I got my new bulb) Then we lost power for two days. After all that stress still no hermie. Then there is dp. blueberry you can do everything perfect dont check the growroon for two days and guess what nuts everywere. Around christmass I ordered some seeds for my old man and one of his friends from Attitude and I got 1 Seedsman fem. White Widow out of the deal. That seed was not fucking feminized it was a male. I really dont have too much exp. with feminized seeds but the only ones I have ever had that were worth a shit was Warlock.

there is alot of bad stigma about fem seeds, i have had a few strains go hermie but most of them i have grown seed too maturity with no problems. i reckon i have a 90% success rates with fem seeds. but you have to exspect some hermie traits when dealing with fems. i am on sog from now on so wont be dealing with many seeds anymore.

my worst herm experience was with normal male female seeds on the other hand i have grown out bagseed fems without issue go figure.