Fems and Hermies (changed title from 'feminize your own seeds')

[blackdragon]

This is what I use.

[blackdragon]

This sounds to me as if Perfect growing conditions produce almost always females. Males were grown under less then perfect conditions.
If thats the case then There would be no natural females in harsher climates. But since there are I must say that its the seed that is male or female.

excellent deduction watson.

[Scarper]

The females should be fertilized and wait a few days for the seeds to ripen.

I'm wondering if a few days is long enough?

I have a hermie and the seeds have been green for over a month.. Do you wait untill seeds begin to go brown, stripey? Or do you pick and as they dry they get their more familluar brown colour?

I have grown children from a hermie before and 50% of the plants were morphed. Is that not a sighn of the seed not being grown fully as a majority of them were green when harvested.
All female of course..

please clarify the correct time to pull seeds?

[Scarper]

lol

ok so iv been reading this site for about 2 weeks and after I posted the above I continued to space out a magnified font and continue thread hunting.
I thank Rusty for answering my question within another thread..

"Ow! My ears!

Green seeds are not nearly ripe. Wait until they are fat and brown, with noticeable dark stripes before harvesting. You can flush at any time. If you are more than 2 weeks from harvest, go back to feeding until about a week from when you plan to chop. "

For anyone who is reading and is in doubt.
And apologies for not having such atrocious spelling above.

Off out to the shed for another :rastasmoke:

[Rusty Trichome]

please clarify the correct time to pull seeds?

After harvesting the plant and it's been dried.
Seeds take between 4 and 6 weeks on the plant to mature and be viable.

[ch33ch]

do you have any info on the method to produce silver nitrate / collodial silver?

if you want to make silver nitrate (AgNO3 if i remember correctly) you would need silver and nitric acid, and just let them react. there are other ways, but im sure silver nitrate is easier to buy than nitric acid, since nitric acid would be an ingredient in some people's drug manufacture.
but of course that just came out of my brain, no googling involved. google it and i'm sure you can find plenty of methods for producing silver nitrate.

[stevemeade]

wow thats crazy, im going to try this out when i get the chance(already killed them i had a 50%male/female rate and im hoping this works for me so i can get a 100% female rate,:rastasmoke:

[MrTeas]

I like your style, and tend to agree with you on some of the things you mentioned in your post. Bringing the "Hay Day" strains back would be awesome, but sorry to say far fetched, unless there are still a few wise crackers holding on to there prized
beans to throw down. I enjoy a good purple Thai from '76 that has high thc AND cbd levels! I thought Mary was always in favor of one or the other, but in this case its the best of both worlds, and every color of the rainbow with a fruity purple-berry-mango-melonesque bouquet and you taste all of the rainbow every hit you take ;D

Guess we need to follow our better judgement and start looking at Mary as part of our herbal repertoire~

[williboy]

Dear Rusty,
Thanks for all the info so far, I would like a little clarification if possible. Are those aspirin the little 83mg kind or the regular 325mg. The entire thread is very facinating to me as I can see reasons to clone as well has want to plant a seed and know that it should grow into a fine lady. If you could refer me anyone or where to find more specifics on Ph, Heat, Light, Pruning, etc. to 'herminize", I will try these methods out, DAMN this is so fun. I live in NorCal, got a too big house, and finally living the 'Vida Loca' (sp?) So why not?

[williboy]

By now, I hope you have been seeing many more of what I think you are describing; the first caylx at the base of the first or second 'alternating' branch nodes, hopefuly you are only seeing preflowering.