Light Hermies males and females

[BobBong]

Thanks Bob you have showed everyone you are a total pro, and that you know everything about growing cannabis.....

Chappie you are right, on must of the things you say, i totaly agree, thats what ive been trying to say, you can mutate the plan or afect the gender, but not with light...

Even so i would say that mustly all hermaphrodites are caused because of the genetic of the seed...

you see. the thing is, i'm NOT a pro at growing.. i'm very far from it... but i've read enough reliable sources to contradict what you are trying to state as fact.

this is my very first grow...but it's funny how after simply reading a book, i can very easily say i know more about growing indoor plants ( not just marijuana ) than half the people that claim they know.

P.S. you wouldn't ask a agronomist about marijuana.. you'd ask a horticulturist..

[kuri]

wow! i learned something in this thread. and im going to go google it and see if i can find places that back this up.

so if i'm in 12/12 and i interrupt the dark with an hour of light that it will cause a hermie. some may laught at me, but i want a hermie so i can get seeds. i don't have a male.

so my question is if i cause a hermie in this way, will the seeds become hermies? or will they be feminized? thanks to anyone with replies on this.

[marimbas]

I might be wrong, ive readed a book, and i have some more exp in outdoor than indoor, even so, In mexico i dont know if an horticulturist with a bachelour even exists, i got a friend who i a agronomist and i asked him...

even so i dont think light can afect but still i might be wrong, About the common sense i dont see how it is a common sense thing, that light can affect the sex of a plant??


I think the bottom line is that kuri make the experiment, but dont do it with 1 plant, do it with at least 3... so if its real youll get only hermies... and ill shut my mouth totally

[kuri]

no dont' shut your mouth, i'm not trying to do an experiment to find answers, i'm trying to grab as many opinions from people and then try what i think may work. i'm just trying to get seeds from my plants that are luckily all female.

i was planning to do a plant with gibberellic acid to see if i can induce male flowers AND after today when the time comes, i'm going to try the 5.5 hours off 1 hour on and 5.5 off for the 12/12 night cycle to see if that is easier to get male flowers.

so no, PLEASE don't shut your mouth, it is ALL of our opinions and separate knowledge that helps us all progress, now when it gets out of hand and there is name calling, then i would agree on the shutting of mouth . thanks again

[the happy chappie]

hi again all, may i suggest that if your gonna break the light cycle like you say then maybe extend that hour to 90 mins, it would work i think with one hour, but 90mins is sure to confuse them gals, i feel for you kuri, aint it poss for you to get normal randomly selected seeds mate, is there know where you could ponce some, you would do far better to select male plants from normal seeds than to try and create seeds from a mother with forced male jender, you might end up with all hermie babys, now that would be sick, normal randomly selected seeds on average are gonna give ya 50 / 50 m/f offspring, at least then you will have better stock to start your projects, having said that you could still come up with a hermie or two, just that your chances are gonna better, some hermies dont give ya that much stash mate, it would depend just how queer they have turned, if ya have got a hermie thats only got a little bit of male gender, that dont mean that its offspring will also be so lightly altered, in my humble opinon i would keep away from hermies and try to create somthing more relaible,i throw thousands of seeds away if just one of the mothers show any sign of male jender, hermies are good to learn from mate, but they can be a real pain in the arse, and can fuck a grow without ya knowing, all the best

[phillykid420]

I wouldn't force a hermie to produce seed. Reason being, like I said above, each plant will have a different predisposition to go hermie. So if you screw with light cycle and find that a plant hermies easily and then you use that hermie to produce seed, you have a higher probability of getting hermies since the mother had a high predisposition to turn hermie.
I think STS is a better method of producing male flowers on a female plant. It's works through a chemical pathway (something to do with ethylene) rather than a mutation. I just buy seeds each time, I don't feel like wasting my time. I don't have the room nor am I willing to take the risk of large scale growing needed to find really good phenotypes to make my mom and pops. Selection is a big part of breeding and creating seeds. which is why I'd rather let the pros breed them, you might grow 10 of a certain strain and select, the breeder might grow 100+ for their selection, which do you think has a better chance of creating genetically superior seeds?

Well, IBLs would be a different story.

[kuri]

what is STS? as a method to produce male flowers? the reason i'm thinking about doing this is because i only have two females and there will come a time when i have to take a break from growing and the i will have nothing to start up growing again, therefore i would like seeds. i found these two seeds i a bag i got and luckily both of them germinated and were females.

what about using gibberellic acid? will that be better than forcing hermies with stress or light cycle changes?

i would buy seeds and start with that, however i'm in a country where it is not legal so i would have to buy from abroad and i'm not comfortable with that. any suggestions?

[KanMan]

Collect pollen from the hermaphrodite and pollinate female only plants. The resulting Kannabis seeds will produce female Kannabis plants with out the male genes. Gibberellic acid will produce male flowers on a female Kannabis plant.

Good Kannabis Growing!

[Nosehit]

normaly its the oposite, youll get male flowers first then female, but after all a hermie is a hermie and may go the other way, i dont think that what happend to you was because you caused it... I think those were predisposed plants, what i mean that the mother seeds were hermies...

Thats what I thought, thats why I was so shocked when I saw the male flowers after I thought it was a girl (the damn tranny) . Oh well I seem to do everything bass akwards at first.

SSS that seems so logical, I never thought about it like that.

[KanMan]

Light stress can cause a female Kannabis plants to hermaphrodite period. That is a fact folks. I have been around Kannabis grows since the 1980's so my experience is not limited. Also check most any Kannabis FAQ's they will confirm light stress can cause hermaphrodites in Kannabis plants period.

Good Kannbais Growing!