Colchicine treating

Hey Dog,

Thanks for the earlier compliment, I'm flattered but Rusty is in a league of his own. I have been here only a short time, and have not contributed nearly as much as Rusty has to these boards.

Ain't it a real bitch when you want to get a plant to turn and it won't. Mean while some will herm if you give them a nasty look. The colloidal silver method is used especially with the auto flowers because it is suppose to very quick acting and I thought would work with most strains. I have not tried to use it tho, I usually have success with screwing with the dark period. When I was using my greenhouse, where I could not easily do light poisining, I'd use large doses of aspirin to chemically poisin selected plants. It works pretty reliably.

Oldmac this girl is a semi autoflower...That explains why the silver works... Thanks for the great info.. I will pass it along to my uncle...:thumbsup:

good thread i love the advanced techniqes section:jointsmile:

Many years ago, aspirin was the first technique I used for forcing nanners. :thumbsup:

Use care if you re-use any portion of the aspirin-laced soil. It can screw with the next crop.

Tried to up-rep ya Oldmac, but the server seems to think I do so too often. I appreciate the compliment though. :thumbsup:

hi all, have done the cholchicine trip &have growen out the next generation. found it increased the thc but tasted like shit. read up on it before trying . i wasted the first crop as advised cheers bugsey

It is my understanding that gibberellic acid is used to induce male flowers on a female plant.

Colchicine is a gout medication that purportedly can induce polyploidiy in plants, the advantage of polyloid marijuana being that the double female chromisome will make superbud.

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Originally Posted by Mustelid

It is my understanding that gibberellic acid is used to induce male flowers on a female plant.

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Depends on the dilution rates prior to application. Use a weaker solution...it's a growth hormone aiding in internode stretch. Use a stronger solution and you stress her to hermaphrodism. Either way, I wouldn't want to smoke the results. Nor would I want to risk any adverse reactions in my family or friends.

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Originally Posted by Mustelid

Colchicine is a gout medication that purportedly can induce polyploidiy in plants, the advantage of polyloid marijuana being that the double female chromisome will make superbud.

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Would like to see some data on that.
Also, IMHO, touting the use of these products on a medical cannabis site is unethical, as nobody knows the results of smoking the residue contained within the plant.
Wanna risk killing someone suffering from AIDS, cancer or hep-c...? Just have 'em smoke some steroids or hormones, or other toxic compounds that you have no clue about, but freely tout as effective.

If you are a medical grower, think hard before subjecting yourself to the unknown drug interractions, and the possible assault these unknown compounds will have on your current treatments the doctor has you on.

Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) or light poisoning are the only methods I would ever consider endorsing.

Time and experience will make your buds grow better and safer than any steroidal or hormonal additive.

Good point!

I'm not endorsing their use, certainly not consuming, or letting anyone consume the treated plants.

As far as using the seeds from gibberellic acid treated plant, I understand that it is safe, at least that is where femenized seeds come from.

As far as colchicine, it has mostly been abandoned as gout medication due to horrible stomach cramps and other problems. A treated plant is probably very unsafe to consume.

A clone from a mother treated with colchicine? I'm not sure, and don't own a GCMS machine to see what the concentrations of colchicine are either.

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Originally Posted by daihashi

WTF are you talking about?

Female plants do not produce pollen. To produce pollen you need pollen sacs.. and if your plant has pollen sacs then it is either A. a Male or B. a hermaphrodite.

A female plant will make pollen if you let it flower until it dies in which case it makes a last ditch effort to survive by going hermie and self pollinating.

You can't change the biology of a plant no matter how you try to spin your story. Female plants DO NOT make pollen.

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Sorry there is another. It is a full female plant with female nanners or banana's. It is a female genetic flower that has pollen. The only way to get female seeds.

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Originally Posted by Deejay2163

I've read from a few sources that crushing Colchicine tablets or extracting the raw colchicine from the winter crocus bulbs and soaking your seeds in it is the most preferred and used method to feminize seeds....anyone have any input as to this method of feminization?

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Crocus bulbs were crushed and plants treated with the juice in order to make a plant with way more flowering sites. Once treated the plant could not be consumed. It was only good for taking clones. With new breeds and genetic it fell by the roadside for being too dangerous. It's called polyploid. Do a web search you'll find it.