Female plant = hermie

[Weedhound]

Wow....don't mind discussion either....but don't need rude remarks from boneheads like you as well.

Guess what....that's my own opinion and I honestly couldn't give a shit what they sell barrels of in Holland.

All human beings get colds too....good genetics would lean toward those who get sick less and get less sick.

Go stick your head back up your ass so the rest of us will be better off.

[oldmac]

Wow....don't mind discussion either....but don't need rude remarks from boneheads like you as well.

Guess what....that's my own opinion and I honestly couldn't give a shit what they sell barrels of in Holland.

All human beings get colds too....good genetics would lean toward those who get sick less and get less sick.

Go stick your head back up your ass so the rest of us will be better off.

So, all of your rhetoric supports your opinon how???

If you like my use of "reverse" you'll just love my use of "vertical growth inhibitor". Yup, I screw with the plants chemical balance; but I can grow a pure Thai sativa (udorn thani '71) that grows 12+ feet normally and grow it in my flat roof greenhouse that has only 8' floor to roof clearance. Better living thru chemistry.

Note to Weedy: I've lived my entire life with one philosiphy; try to learn something new everyday. And in the 78 years I've been on God's green earth I have actually learned a thing or two. Just recently tho' I've learned, I have a very low tolerance for people, who for whatever reason, don't want to learn. Sorry. -oldmac

[Rusty Trichome]

In regards to passing 'hermie' traits thru feminization, I personally have experience, and do so quite sucessfully.
If you have not tried this technique, you really shouldn't try to pass bad info along to those of us that sucessfully use this technique. Good luck convincing me I can't do something that I consistently do.

I've used aspirin, I've used GA, (gibrellic acid) and I've used light poisoning. There's other methods, but these are what I have personally done.

The seeds I have now are from stock last purchased/recieved over 5 years ago.

The strains I have are:
Swazi Skunk
Potent Purple
C-99/Sweet Tooth
Bubblegum
Reefermans un-named R&D strain (I call it Pokerface)
Inca Spirit
and last year a friend gifted me some Diesel

Through multiple generations I have grown seeds using the normal male-female methods, and I've femmed all of my strains at least a couple of times.

Never...Let me repeat NEVER have I ended-up with a crop of hermie seeds. (knocks on wood, lol)

Most plants in nature have a survival technique or two imprinted in their genes. Going hermie is one of cannabis' survival techniques, and can be manually forced to express itself. This does not mean the strain is now tainted. In my experience, if the strain is strong to begin with...there will be no problems. In my later sucessions, still no problems. Trait is triggered when over-stressed.

Too many folks screwed-up attempting this with no prior growing knowlege or experience, and thusly reported a bad result. Now, this old wives tale about forced hermies being the devils spawn continues.

If you know your crop, and can sucessfully grow a plant from start to harvest...you are on the way to sucessfully pulling off the miracle of feminization.

If you have problems bringing a plant to harvest, or keep finding 'nanners', likely your technique needs improving. This does not necessarily mean the plant is a genetic hermie.
Plants have no ego, so they accept the ego-driven claims of an inexperienced grower, like they were fact.

But, from what I hear, bad strains are out there. I just don't grow any of 'em. :jointsmile:

[WeLuvGreenTg]

A friend of mine has an excellent strain of Purple Kush. He was wondering if there was a way to create a hermie {stress, aspirin, etc} as to produce a male Kush for breeding.

Thats funny that you say that because one of my PKs was a hermie so im waitin to see if i find any seeds, hoping not alot but enough to be able to save that strain for later uses.

[stinkybudz]

the reason you dont want to breed hermies is you pass on the hermie trait to its offspring, even with reverse its still a pain, best with the best, not the best with a foliar spray..