Gibberellic Acid or Colloidal Silver?

it1sasecret

Active Member
what's the key difference between the two? i have read many articles of the two but haven't found one that really compares them. can anyone elaborate this for me?
ps...i don't need to be taught a 12 year edu on them don't worry, just some clarification.
thanks
 

B?!

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I'm no expert, but gibberellic acid is a hormone that is used differently by different plants. You can get supersized pumpkins and melons by using the stuff at various stages of the plant's growth but it doesn't work for all. With many plants it actually has a negative effect. My understanding is that it can be used to induce male flowering in cannabis -- unless you want hermie seeds you probably don't want to use it unless you know what you're doing.

Colloidal silver is just microscopic silver particles in a water suspension. It was used back in the day as an antibiotic before the good antibiotics were invented. I'd imagine it would have similar affects on plants in keeping the little microbugs away, but there are far cheaper things available like neem that will do the same stuff for less cash.
 

M4A1

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I have used Colloidal silver to force a female to grow male pollin sacks,. It works. I have no expirence with Gibberellic Acid. I used CS cause it was easy to make with stuff I had here around the house.

As far as making hermi seeds. The batch of fem seeds I made I have several growing right now. All of which are female and none are hermis. You really need to make sure the plant you force to grow pollina sacks gives you a hard time. You don't want a plant that turns really easy. If it turns really easy that is not a good choice for harvesting it's pollin to pollinate another female with. Chances are if it does it will pass that trait of hermi'ing really easy onto it's off spring. I think I just happen to luck out. The plant I used took 3 weeks of stressing to turn.
 
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