I have a little book called "Hydroponically speaking, Cloning" written by Steven Carruthers.
I have just been reading through it because i plan to take quite a few clones from my next grow.
I got to a section called 'Plant Regulators' where it reads:-
When a clone is forming flowers or fruit as a reaction to the change in the light cycle, it is especially susceptible to outside influences regarding its sexuality. When ETHRYL is applied, which the plant recognises as a female hormone, the scales are tipped in favour of femaleness, and then the plant itself starts to produce the hormone on its own to maintain sexual stability.
A fruiting plant will produce its own ethylene naturally.
The application of ETHRYL will not cause sexual reversal. However, a male oriented clone, if caught at the proper time will suddenly have its youthful sexual hormonal ratios altered toward feminization and will proceed along that path. It too will begin to make its own ethylene just like a natural female in order to maintain the hormonal inertia. Sometimes clones get a little confused by all this and end up hermaphroditic, but that only happens to a small number of plants.

So, basically this guy is saying you can almost certainly change a male clone to female if given ETHRYL at the right time..?

What do you all think about this?
GunBarrel Reviewed by GunBarrel on . Sex of plants, can be manufactured? I have a little book called "Hydroponically speaking, Cloning" written by Steven Carruthers. I have just been reading through it because i plan to take quite a few clones from my next grow. I got to a section called 'Plant Regulators' where it reads:- When a clone is forming flowers or fruit as a reaction to the change in the light cycle, it is especially susceptible to outside influences regarding its sexuality. When ETHRYL is applied, which the plant recognises as a female hormone, the Rating: 5