bob talbert
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so has it worked out, im very curious to know
Easy Way To Get Good Female Plants
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vishall kaistha
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Yea!! I wanna kno as well, about EP's 7 plants. ha
Dominathan
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Does NOT work, lol.
texaskilla
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If the plants are sprayed with Ethel early in their growing stage, they
will produce almost all female plants. This usually speeds up the flowering
also, it may happen in as little as two weeks
will produce almost all female plants. This usually speeds up the flowering
also, it may happen in as little as two weeks
texaskilla
Active Member
Here some other shit:
HOW TO ALTER THE PERCENTAGE OF FEMALES
From literature it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. For growers who are well experienced, percentage of female plants is 60% - 90% female, but less experienced growers can end up with 100% male plants. The environmental factors that, according to literature, influence gender are:
- a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- a higher potassium concentration will give more males (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- a higher humidity will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- a lower temperature will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- more blue light will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- Fewer hours of light will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- In later stage, as you increase the light, the plants grow faster and show more females/less males.
Sixteen hours of light per day seems to be the best combination, beyond this makes little or no appreciable difference in the plant quality.
- Another idea is to interrupt the night cycle with about one hour of light, This gives you more females.
- Spray dilute Fish Emulsion ( 1 tablespoon per gallon ). When the plants have three sets of true leaves, plus the top sprout, give them a wetting spray of Fish Emulsion. Do it once a day for three of four days. Top and bottom of the leaves.
- To achieve 100% female plants is to expose young seedlings for several hours to an atmosphere of Carbon Monoxide. It doesn't hurt the plants, but it could kill you.
- Treatment of hempseed with ethylene gas will increase the resulting number of female plants by about 50%. Ethylene is produced by certain plants (i.e., bananas, cucumbers and melons), and these can be used to treat hempseed in a simple manner. About two weeks before you plan to sprout the seeds, place them in a paper bag or envelope and put that in a plastic bag with the peels of a ripening banana or cucumber.
Replace the peels after a couple of days, and change the bags to prevent mold.
- When hempseed is treated with the female hormone estrogen, percentage of females that are produced will increase by about 10%.
Dissolve a birth control pill in water and soak the seeds overnight in the solution. After the initial soaking, continue to treat the seeds by sprouting them on a paper towel soaked in the solution.
courtesy of cannabis-seed-banks.com
HOW TO ALTER THE PERCENTAGE OF FEMALES
From literature it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. For growers who are well experienced, percentage of female plants is 60% - 90% female, but less experienced growers can end up with 100% male plants. The environmental factors that, according to literature, influence gender are:
- a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- a higher potassium concentration will give more males (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- a higher humidity will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- a lower temperature will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- more blue light will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- Fewer hours of light will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).
- In later stage, as you increase the light, the plants grow faster and show more females/less males.
Sixteen hours of light per day seems to be the best combination, beyond this makes little or no appreciable difference in the plant quality.
- Another idea is to interrupt the night cycle with about one hour of light, This gives you more females.
- Spray dilute Fish Emulsion ( 1 tablespoon per gallon ). When the plants have three sets of true leaves, plus the top sprout, give them a wetting spray of Fish Emulsion. Do it once a day for three of four days. Top and bottom of the leaves.
- To achieve 100% female plants is to expose young seedlings for several hours to an atmosphere of Carbon Monoxide. It doesn't hurt the plants, but it could kill you.
- Treatment of hempseed with ethylene gas will increase the resulting number of female plants by about 50%. Ethylene is produced by certain plants (i.e., bananas, cucumbers and melons), and these can be used to treat hempseed in a simple manner. About two weeks before you plan to sprout the seeds, place them in a paper bag or envelope and put that in a plastic bag with the peels of a ripening banana or cucumber.
Replace the peels after a couple of days, and change the bags to prevent mold.
- When hempseed is treated with the female hormone estrogen, percentage of females that are produced will increase by about 10%.
Dissolve a birth control pill in water and soak the seeds overnight in the solution. After the initial soaking, continue to treat the seeds by sprouting them on a paper towel soaked in the solution.
courtesy of cannabis-seed-banks.com
BustedParaphernalia
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Best solution: buy or create feminized seeds. a lot less trouble 
https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/446034-does-manually-pollinating-lower-buds.html
Read everything on that thread, should be sufficient.
https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/446034-does-manually-pollinating-lower-buds.html
Read everything on that thread, should be sufficient.
cowell
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A lot of bad info from my own growing experience.
BustedParaphernalia
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Is all of that bogus? I mean... can it hurt? Most of those things are good for plant growth anyway, minus the chemicals.
cowell
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Another sure fire way to have 100% female plants is for the grower to eat his own shit then breath on the seeds to give them a natural burst of Nitrogen. Give er' a go.. may make a big difference!
Yes it's all mumbo jumbo. And yes some of it could hurt...
read this up there?
he said "a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks)."
I said - I've never - ever given nutes before week 3..
( I lied... I did on my first grow... not since then - nute burn sucks and you can kill your plant.. search "is this nute burn" and take a look at the seedlings that are scorched to shit.)
He said "Fewer hours of light will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks)."
-all that fewer hours of light is going to do is trigger MJ to go into flower.. hence producing hairs IF it's a female, and then you are going to increase lighting to re-veg your plant.
It's one way to find out if the plants are male of felmale, BUT you can also put a few clones of your plants into flower to force the plants to show sex, and not stall their growth.
He said "Sixteen hours of light per day seems to be the best combination, beyond this makes little or no appreciable difference in the plant quality."
Again, 15 hours can be used to flower some strains from my own experience. 16 hours just forces plants to show their sex. NOT make more or less of them male or female. It will stall your grow if you are doing it for the sole purpose of "making more of them female". If you want to do it to sex your plants.... fine. But because the whole reason for this site and for posting is to pass on GOOD information, I am just trying to save some of you from some BS. Try it out if you want to... I'm not a pot guru or shit, I have just grown enough to know how it works, and read enough crap out here and tried it out myself to know it doesn't.
He said "- Another idea is to interrupt the night cycle with about one hour of light, This gives you more females"
It also interrupt's the night cycle, and causes stress in your plant.. stress CAN actually increase the chances of your plant turning hermie.
I don't feel like going on.. but there's more that IS likely a bad idea... he says it himself.."- To achieve 100% female plants is to expose young seedlings for several hours to an atmosphere of Carbon Monoxide. It doesn't hurt the plants, but it could kill you."
another one of his suggestions... could... kill you.
LOL...
I just am in the mood to type tonight - and I am just trying to help save a few people the time and energy if they don't already know better.
BustedParaphernalia
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Well then, one more load off my back. Less to worry about :3
Thanks dude. It all did sound a bit bogus-ey.
cowell
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All good bud.. I've just tried out a few of these "sure fire" grow techniques for my own piece of mind to see what works for myself and by all means try some of them out if you are curious - you learn by doing. But these are old "wive's tales" from old growers that have been around for a long time and have to stop - lol.
hi i have been trying to get info about figuring out plant sex during growth, anyway you mentioned:
(show me ANY post where someone says they got 100% male plants please.. never heard of it happening) -
well i have had 3 grows and all males except 1
25 seeds planted and all germed and all (except 1) were male. all different strains from different breeders. I find hard to believe that this is just bad luck, there must be a environmental issue here, any way i can't discredit cowell's info cause at this point I will try anything.
(show me ANY post where someone says they got 100% male plants please.. never heard of it happening) -
well i have had 3 grows and all males except 1
25 seeds planted and all germed and all (except 1) were male. all different strains from different breeders. I find hard to believe that this is just bad luck, there must be a environmental issue here, any way i can't discredit cowell's info cause at this point I will try anything.
BustedParaphernalia
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I don't know how I did it, but I've been growing six plants, and they're all female. First grow, too. Not sure how it happened, really.
BustedParaphernalia
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Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil, no nutes until like week 3 or 4, Flora Nova Veg and Flora Nova Bloom nutes, flowered after vegging way too long, all in 8" 1.8 gallon pots under a 400W MH bulb until flowering, and then under a 400W HPS bulb.
the dark period in your lighting schedule allows the plant to produce the chemical it needs to be female. The long dark before switching to flowering could, in that sense, create a higher probability of a female. Flushing the growing medium of the nutrients used for veg stage before flowering may help as well. Mary Jane babies require a strict schedules with alot of TLC. Show your plants love and they will give it back...lol. Hope this helps and good luck with your grows.
clone them and you will never have a male or harvest some female polline and make your own feminized seeds.
TheChemist77
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i get a 7-8 out of 10 seed female ratio most times...not sure if its enviroment or the predetermined sex thing, but i would gues even if they are predetermined a seeded plant will create more female seeds than male as 1 male can pollenate hundreds of females...
i do 18/6 light sced, use blue spectrum, 65 degree temp, maxi gro nutes higher nitrogen,always have a fan blowing on them to strengthen stems, and thats it.. ive tried many times popping hundreds of seeds, and almost always get more females than males even in male friendly enviroments...so they may be predetermined i dont know? but it seems there are always more females than males in every 10 pack of seeds...
i do 18/6 light sced, use blue spectrum, 65 degree temp, maxi gro nutes higher nitrogen,always have a fan blowing on them to strengthen stems, and thats it.. ive tried many times popping hundreds of seeds, and almost always get more females than males even in male friendly enviroments...so they may be predetermined i dont know? but it seems there are always more females than males in every 10 pack of seeds...
TheChemist77
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as long as u dont stress them....stress can make a female herm..
Cobnobuler
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When working with reg seeds is it not already determined if or not the seed is male or female ? Like, its already a done deal regarding the sex. Its just that the grower wont know until he flips his plants or they otherwise show pre-flowers or something ?