can topping create more males

I topped four of my plants and three have turned male. I have'nt had this high of a male to female ratio in the year that I have been growing . I experimented with root stim and had more males, now experimented with topping and the same. is it the added stress? Because I would give up the extra yield for reliable females. any help?

dahamma said:

I topped four of my plants and three have turned male. I have'nt had this high of a male to female ratio in the year that I have been growing . I experimented with root stim and had more males, now experimented with topping and the same. is it the added stress? Because I would give up the extra yield for reliable females. any help?

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Stress usually make hermies not males, i think your just having bad luck. Lots of people top and fim and naver have problems. Root stims are a new deal but most of them are just phosphorus with something similar to h2o2 so the roots get high oxygen. Its prolly like P2O2. Also some contain yucca, which has no scientific evidence in plants but some anecdotal. Yucca has a chemical that stimulates mucus in humans, and so the anecdotal evidence is the same for plants roots.

I really dont see why either would lead to more males. The topping could lead to more herms though. Lamp

Yea i had one going once, topped it and it turned into the john holmes of mj plants, big healthy bastad. I really would have loved to have it around as a house plant but figured wasnt worth the risk. It had like 30 shouts on it and shaped like a bonzi. Needless to say it was like scarface met edward sizzor hands cuttin that fucka to shreads.

yeah probably bad luck . I'm just trying to find an answer. I'm getting sick of haulin males out of my flower room, i'm starting to feel like a bouncer at a lez bar. haha

dahamma said:

yeah probably bad luck . I'm just trying to find an answer. I'm getting sick of haulin males out of my flower room, i'm starting to feel like a bouncer at a lez bar. haha

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HAHA, try putting bananas at the base of all the plants in veg. the ethylene gas that is emitted by bananas will help promote females. Change them out after they brown. Also 12/12 while they are seeds until they have true leaves will help the number of females. And finally you can also put your seeds in a bag with banana peels, the ethylene gas will help them decide to be females. Lamp

wait till it shows sex then top

damn thats shitty luck

weedyoo said:

wait till it shows sex then top

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I thought that stressing it during flower would herm it?

dahamma said:

I thought that stressing it during flower would herm it?

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Pruning really doesnt stress plants, just a tiny bit. Stressed plants are really just plants in poor health or that have been shocked by rapid changes in temp or lighting, or water even excess nute burn. Lamp

lampshade said:

HAHA, try putting bananas at the base of all the plants in veg. the ethylene gas that is emitted by bananas will help promote females. Change them out after they brown. Also 12/12 while they are seeds until they have true leaves will help the number of females. And finally you can also put your seeds in a bag with banana peels, the ethylene gas will help them decide to be females. Lamp

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Thats sick dude, i have never heard of that, i might have to give it a try. peace.

Northernlights4 said:

Thats sick dude, i have never heard of that, i might have to give it a try. peace.

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Ya it works pretty well too. If you have a commercial grow i would just buy a tank of ethylene and then get a regulator to slowly release it throughout the day. Lamp

lampshade said:

HAHA, try putting bananas at the base of all the plants in veg. the ethylene gas that is emitted by bananas will help promote females. Change them out after they brown. Also 12/12 while they are seeds until they have true leaves will help the number of females. And finally you can also put your seeds in a bag with banana peels, the ethylene gas will help them decide to be females. Lamp

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Wow, all the urban myths in one post?

Solstice07 said:

Wow, all the urban myths in one post?

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Its not an urban myth. Ethylene does work look up a book call "Girls and boys come out and play: a study of diploid plant sex".... or something like that i will find the real title if you want. Its a scientific publication about plant sex, reversal and influence. It also uses the plan cannabis sativa in a few studies. and it clearly shows that ethylene and auxins are the hormones that stimulate female sex in cannabis. Since cannabis does NOT have a predetermined sex, it does not use the XY system, but the XA. Lamp

All previous information I have found seems to debunk ethylene gas as a sex determinant for marijuana. I'll look into that. Thanks!

Solstice07 said:

All previous information I have found seems to debunk ethylene gas as a sex determinant for marijuana. I'll look into that. Thanks!

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Please do i know that bananas arnt the best source a tank and regulater would be best, But it does work. Please check into it.

"Ainsworth reviews that treatment with auxin and ethylene have feminizing effects, and that treatment with cytokinins and gibberellins have masculinizing effects."--
Ainsworth, C. 2000. Boys and girls come out to play: the molecular biology of dioecious plants. Annals of Botany 86(2): 211-221. Retrieved on 24 February 2007

lampshade said:

Please do i know that bananas arnt the best source a tank and regulater would be best, But it does work. Please check into it.

"Ainsworth reviews that treatment with auxin and ethylene have feminizing effects, and that treatment with cytokinins and gibberellins have masculinizing effects."--
Ainsworth, C. 2000. Boys and girls come out to play: the molecular biology of dioecious plants. Annals of Botany 86(2): 211-221. Retrieved on 24 February 2007

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Ah, I thought we were talking about the gas generated from banana peels. An ethylene gas tank changes the playing field. Perhaps.

Solstice07 said:

Ah, I thought we were talking about the gas generated from banana peels. An ethylene gas tank changes the playing field. Perhaps.

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No you said "all the info i have seen debunks ETHYLENE" the ball park is still in sight bro.

lampshade said:

No you said "all the info i have seen debunks ETHYLENE" the ball park is still in sight bro.

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Also ainsworth could have been using bananas. We dont know the source of ethylene. Also ever heard on bad apple spoils the batch. This is b/c as fruits rippen they produce more and more ethylene. Eventually until they rot and will quickly rot the surrounding fruit. This is why fruit farmers pick unripe. Then when it gets to market they spray with ethylene to make them rippen. So fruits produce enough on there own to rippen i imagine that its enough to influence sex. Just like CO2 though you would need to stop circulation for a while. Lamp

lampshade said:

Also ainsworth could have been using bananas. We dont know the source of ethylene. Also ever heard on bad apple spoils the batch. This is b/c as fruits rippen they produce more and more ethylene. Eventually until they rot and will quickly rot the surrounding fruit. This is why fruit farmers pick unripe. Then when it gets to market they spray with ethylene to make them rippen. So fruits produce enough on there own to rippen i imagine that its enough to influence sex. Just like CO2 though you would need to stop circulation for a while. Lamp

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Very interesting stuff lamp. thanks

Realclosetgreenz said:

Very interesting stuff lamp. thanks

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Anytime just tryin to help.