hello everyone.
thanks for the hellos and hello right back at ya. 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