Gibberellic Acid ?

**Kreyonic** · 11-18-2009, 10:56 PM

Actually, G. Acid causes the plant to produce male flowers during female flowering, in turn self pollinates which in turn also creates Feminized seeds. This is just research that I have looked into for creating Fem seeds BUT... Be very careful when messing with G. Acid. It is VERY toxic. If you want to use it, make sure you do all the research before fully jumping on the wagon. And I dont mean research as in asking on forums, look it up on the web, read it in horticulture books or marijuana techniques. There is a small article in the Cannibible about this same thing "Cannibible 3, Pg. 118" which explains this acid pretty well.

I hope I dont come off as an ass, I really am trying to help

**BigBudBalls** · 11-20-2009, 07:49 PM

Each seed pod is a pod that has been pollinated. No pollen, no seed.

GA will, as stated, cause the male flowers to start. AKA, a hermie. You don't want to self pollinate a plant. You want to use that GA pollen on a separate plant (not a clone from the same mother)

**Vindicated** · 11-20-2009, 10:34 PM

This is a good topic

So what are the risks when using this stuff for germinating seeds?

**skoobie dew** · 12-03-2009, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by BigBudBalls

Each seed pod is a pod that has been pollinated. No pollen, no seed.

GA will, as stated, cause the male flowers to start. AKA, a hermie. You don't want to self pollinate a plant. You want to use that GA pollen on a separate plant (not a clone from the same mother)

Why wouldn't you want to self pollinate a plant? What if you had an elite clone and wanted seeds? Wouldn't you be likely to get a close match to the origina?

**BigBudBalls** · 12-05-2009, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by skoobie dew

Why wouldn't you want to self pollinate a plant? What if you had an elite clone and wanted seeds? Wouldn't you be likely to get a close match to the origina?

if you have 3 plants, all clones from the same mother, its genetically, one plant. To force male flowers and using that pollen on any of the 3, the seeds will most likely be hermie seeds. (think inbreeding)

2 Different mothers is a much better/safer way to go.

If the plant is that special to you, just keep cloning her (plus it wlli always be a female.)

**skoobie dew** · 12-08-2009, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by BigBudBalls

if you have 3 plants, all clones from the same mother, its genetically, one plant. To force male flowers and using that pollen on any of the 3, the seeds will most likely be hermie seeds. (think inbreeding)

2 Different mothers is a much better/safer way to go.

If the plant is that special to you, just keep cloning her (plus it wlli always be a female.)

lol your icon and inbreeding!

**ggrrtt11** · 12-16-2009, 12:54 AM

god damnit has any one succesfully used it?

**ggrrtt11** · 12-16-2009, 01:06 AM

copy and paste
Gibberellic-acid a chemically produced natural acid, not a hormone preparation which stimulates the production of female flowering hormones that are already present in the plant. Every cannabis plant contains Gibberellic acid by nature in his/her system. Some very extreme Sativa's may show a tendency to hermafroditism.Preferably use the spray shortly before you turn off the lights. You can also suspend the light higher for a few hours.

A 1000 ml. bottle of GA-Special Spray is enough to treat 500 plants. Spray well above the plants - do not dilute.

Spray the plants once after they have been blooming for 23-26 days, or 23-26 days after you have switched the lights to 12 hours.

For insiders: the change from the first to the second internode flowering is the best moment for treatment.

Direct use in the nutrition solution is also possible. This way you can treat twice as many plants as compared to spraying. Use No Mercy Supply GA-Special only once in this case. For more info contact No Mercy Supply ( [email protected] ). The results of using GA-Special will show up rapidly and you will be surprised by the results!

Preferably use the spray shortly before you turn off the lights. You can also suspend the light higher for a few hours.

A 1000 ml. bottle of GA-Special Spray is enough to treat 500 plants. Spray well above the plants - do not dilute.

Spray the plants once after they have been blooming for 23-26 days, or 23-26 days after you have switched the lights to 12 hours.

For insiders: the change from the first to the second internode flowering is the best moment for treatment.

Direct use in the nutrition solution is also possible. This way you can treat twice as many plants as compared to spraying. Use No Mercy Supply GA-Special only once in this case. For more info contact No Mercy Supply ( [email protected] ). The results of using GA-Special will show up rapidly and you will be surprised by the results!

**ggrrtt11** · 12-16-2009, 01:07 AM

sounds good to me

**Hillcrest** · 10-23-2010, 06:42 AM

I Know this is an old thread and maybe many others regarding GA but a friend of mine pointed this thread out to me and thought I should clear a few things up regarding GA.

1)
The ONLY reason it is better to use the pollen on another female plant in flower over the one forced to produce male flowers is YOU GET FAR MORE SEED. There is NO evidence to show that seed actually from the herm would produce seeds that are more inclinded to herm. (@ Correct dosage)
2)
GA IS TOXIC TO PLANTS AT THE INCORRECT DOSAGE.... Start with a number of females and spray each with different strength doses recording each.
3)
Some cannabis strains interdodal distance is increase SERVERLY with GA .... You may need hieght. Prune... trim ...Top..Fim ... what ever you like ...I prefer over 5 weeks vegging keeping all stems down to 2-3 nodes...... before treatment.
4)
The increase in growth triggered by GA requires the plant to have a large amount of stored energy..... this means spray on well vegged plants (under Quality light) to get quality FEM seeds, plus spraying on well vegged plants means there is less chance of your plant dying on you. Your plant must be in PRIME condition and not recently cut.
5)
Soaking seed in GA can increase the germination rate (although experience beats GA). It DOES increase the female to male rate to some degree for alot of strains. Some I know it either kills out right or you end up at such a weak dilution it makes no difference.
(There is a rumour I heard many years ago which said that soaking cannabis seeds in a solution made from crushed chrysanthemum bulbs and water overnight has the same effect... I have not tested this theory, but I can find no scientific evidence to back it up, or show any significant increase in the bulbs naturally occurring GA)
6)
Using Ga to increase bud size.... forget it. Never heard of it, never seen it. Far better and safer options/products out there.

I have found GA a good and cost effective way of increasing my chances of locating and isolating a certain genotype from a strain where the strains seed cost was at a premium and there where many genotypes dominant over the one I required. (Produced more seeds instead of buying more, if geno not produced from original purchased seed)

To all that read this GOOD LUCK in your experiments.

From forums you can gain much useful advice ........ but remember true knowledge comes from personal experience... and Google Scholar