Female seeds?

[ProjectEight]

Just wondering how a plant can be made to only put out female seeds,"plants". Femenized.

They cost more for one but I am in the dark on how "humans" were able to get a plant to only put out female seeds.

[OR Freebird]

I think the process involves treating a plant with hormones -- but as to the details I'm not sure. It's not something that I think the casual home grower would be able to do

[llamaman666]

They treat a plant with an acid that makes the female plant turn into a hermaphrodite, so it can pollinate itself. Being a female it can only pollinate using the X chromosone, as females sex chromosones are always xx and they use one. Combine that with the egg that is always an x you will 100 percent of the time get an xx seed, making a female

[professer evil]

and dont be trying to have sex with them female plants!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[GTC21]

I think it's gibberellic acid.

[llamaman666]

right, I had it on the tip of my tongue

[OR Freebird]

So that's how they do it. I'll just clone for now, thanks.

[marimbas]

Guys i didnt wanted to post yet about this. BUT here is a tip, i talked like a few months ago with a BIG bad ass grower who has been growing for decades in europe, i asked him how could i get more females out of normal seeds.

He told me that there is one way to get toons of females, he said to spary your plants once or twice a week with a foliar fertilizer with very high lvls of nitrogen, and also put in the soil high nitrogen fertilizer, since like it gets it real leafes, until it show it sex...

I did that as an experiment, guess what... i am growing 7 plants at the moment and THEY ALL BECAME FEMALES!!! so well maybe it was good luck, but i really dont think so...

[annac]

there is also a method used called "Rodalization"
A female plant will produce male bananas on its own flowers at the end of it's blooming cycle. This is not to be confused with a hermie plant. The male bananas do not show up until 2 weeks or more after the flowering cycle has peaked. You sacfrice one of your plants for quality smoke but you eventually get female seeds.

Once you collect the pollen you simply re-distribute it on a unpollinated female and it gives you organically grown female seeds. Soma uses this method. Here is a link from High Times
click here (http://www.hightimes.com/ht/grow/content.php?bid=151&aid=2)

image 1 is a somatooth # 2 that is now 28 days past peak. I removed the top half and am rodelizing the bottom half. She is starting to produce male bananas to try to keep herself alive.

image 2. The male bananas are starting to appear on the buds at 14 days past amber/bursting trichomes/peak. Some strains take longer and I have seen some not produce any at all.

[annac]

i guess it helps to hit the upload button.
sorry about that.

[llamaman666]

great to see you still check up on us annaC :p

[Da1KrayzieThug]

Thanks for that annac I wasn't sure if it was true the first time I read about the extra flowering time. Would it work if you took a clone and once it rooted started it to flower immediately and have it still get the male organs? If that worked then it would eliminate the need to waste an entire good female plant to get a few male organs. Thanks.

[annac]

hello everyone.
thanks for the hellos and hello right back at ya. :D This always has been and always will be my homebase no matter how far I roam!

Da1KrayzieThug,, I don't see why you can't go straight into flowering with a rooted clone. I have never done it with a clone and it seems to be harder to get a unpollinated female to produce the male bananas. This is the first time I have actually gotten a sinsemillia plant to produce them. Normally it is a pollinated female that has run its course and is dying. I think I just didn't wait long enough for the unpollinated female to run its course.

I would take a clone for each method that was brought up in this discussion. I would raise one and use the gibberellic acid, I would take another and use the rodelization method and if I had a spare closet I would throw a 3rd clone into light stress to see if she would produce a male flower or two. One way or another you should produce those much desired male bananas and you would also cover all the angles.
sincerely
annaC