greenghost420
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i just read in cervantes bible you can use high concentrations of ethylene to force pistils on a flowering male. anyone done this?
forcing males to grow pistils
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greenghost420
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hell yea fem seeds from males lol or would those be strictly male seeds hmmm
racerboy71
bud bootlegger
if you got it to grow pistils and pollinated it, would it grow all maninized seeds like a plant sprayed with collodial silver would grow feminized seeds?? 
racerboy71
bud bootlegger
damn it, beat me to it.. second time tonight that's happened.. hate that shit..
greenghost420
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yea i hate that shit too 
racerboy71
bud bootlegger
think i coined a new term though, so that's got to count for something right?? wonder if maninized seeds will catch on..yea i hate that shit too
greenghost420
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if for only tonight, it has!
Adrosmokin
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I wonder if you could grow smokeable bud from it to test potency for breeding.
greenghost420
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first things first, anyone recommend an ethylene solution for this experiment? i have males i will try this with...
greenghost420
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i saw in another thread lastnight,scarhole posted up a reference in another thread about neville spraying males with ethylene to reverse them and observe the traits they express. interesting! i wonder if he put a fruit basket in there lol
MrEDuck
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I've been doing some reading about it today. http://www.jubilantindustries.com/ethaphone.html This stuff breaks down to produce ethylene.
If you click the look inside link you can read the experimental and some of the results from a study in the 80s http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01895593
It makes sense. Silver blocks the action of ethylene in female plants and causes the formation of male flowers. I'd still rather work with fems.
If you click the look inside link you can read the experimental and some of the results from a study in the 80s http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01895593
It makes sense. Silver blocks the action of ethylene in female plants and causes the formation of male flowers. I'd still rather work with fems.
greenghost420
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i just copied those same pages to my hdd, the click look inside. very interesting! i have nothing against fems, just grabbed a gal of distilled. time to find my charger n silver!
Psyphish
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I know this thread is pretty old, but I just witnessed Male to female hermaphroditism and was wondering if anyone had any additional information about the subject.
I have a TGA Subcool Plushberry that I kept in 12/12 for a little while, just till the male pre-flowers appeared. After that I moved it back to my 18/6 tent where it has stayed for about a month now. Few weeks of 18/6 and the plant started growing clusters of pollen sacks and I was going to use it for breeding, but today I noticed the plant has started trichome production and stigmas have begun to appear. So basically I freaked a male plant into producing female flowers. Would the pollen still be viable for breeding or would the offspring be freaks?
I have a TGA Subcool Plushberry that I kept in 12/12 for a little while, just till the male pre-flowers appeared. After that I moved it back to my 18/6 tent where it has stayed for about a month now. Few weeks of 18/6 and the plant started growing clusters of pollen sacks and I was going to use it for breeding, but today I noticed the plant has started trichome production and stigmas have begun to appear. So basically I freaked a male plant into producing female flowers. Would the pollen still be viable for breeding or would the offspring be freaks?
greenghost420
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tough to say, might not pass on the trait but it might, only way to know is grow it out
greenghost420
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iv come to the conclusion ill have to flower out the progeny to best know what male is worth deeming a stud. i will be cloning my males from now on till i know if hes a keeper or not.