The Banana Method

Dude, it isnt an old wives tale, just a misunderstanding! The only bananas that help feminize seeds would be the banana that grows from Mary! If you find one and pull it in time, you can greatly increase yer chance of fem seeds. But yer regular banana does nuthin, srry bro! Keep burnin!!!

Except higher ethylene (a plant hormone) levels during very early vegging have been linked with female sex 'expression' in dioceous/pseudodioceous plants, and a ripening banana produces ethylene..
We typically only notice sex 'expression' effects in hermaphrodites caused by stress.. Flip that scenario around, and provide really positive conditions, and its possible that an XY plant could be enticed to express as female and the grower may never know..
Its possible that some herms are the result of an XY seedling that tried to express female, but reverted back..
Has anybody ever come across a plant that produced essentially masculinized seeds?

regardless, the peel aint gonna help you!

Based on?????

a peel is not a ripening fruit!

They still evolve ethylene..

There was a big thread on this a while back....the idea was you put Banana peals in a ziplock with your seeds in DRY paper towels (so as not to germ them). You would switch out the the Banana peals every two days....so as not to get flies, mold, etc. Any fruit will do, but Banana's biodegrade (and release ethylene gas) faster than most fruits. After a week (or more) of doing this you would get "feminized" seeds. Now I'm not easily taken in, and I did a test more as a "mythbuster" effort for myself. I kept the seeds and swapped out Banana's for four weeks straight. Of the ten seeds I planted.....three were female. I'm not saying ethylene gas doesn't feminize marijuana...but the banana method imho is a crock. I would have posted in the thread I read before but could never find it again.....(yes it does take a while to get your babies to show sex) glad someone brought it up so I could bust this myth for everyone.

Oh.....and I know I've been guilty of the same misinformation...but MJ doesn't have an X or a Y gene......thats a mamilian characteristic and the horticultural world has yet to find a "single" gene that expresses sex in MJ plants (although a myriad of genes do seem to be "markers" for sex).

Granted, but the only difference with our own chromosomes could be that we've pegged the primary marker.. 99% of the time cannabis passes on its genetic sex expression in a way that is absolutely analogous to an XX/XY punnet square..
Furthermore, mammalian abnormailities exist that result in female expression of XY and male expression of XX (among others)..
Its well understood that in mammals, female expression is the default, until a trigger (that typically resides on the Y chromosome) is activated..
So regardless of the actual cannabis genome, if this type of determination occurs in the plant kingdom, then its highly likely that expression can be altered early on..

wow..........