my banana experiment

TodayIsAGreenday

TodayIsAGreenday

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lol not my intentions at all my friend

this is a place to share information the only reason i said anything about your rank is that IF you had more posts and were known then i could have an easier time believing you without any pictures, thats all

not saying that i think your lying. if you say that you got mostly females using this method then thats awesome and i can definately see myself using this technique in the future because hell it cant hurt. right?

thank you for sharing your information its not like i dont appreciate your input its just that im a strong seeing is believing person and i like to see results myself or a mast majority agreeing on a common idea
 
LiveVibe

LiveVibe

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Sounds smelly and mushy gross. Watch out for fruit flies.

I don't know because usually almost always - half are females. Unless you are putting the plants under a lot of stress....make sure you have a regular watering and nute schedule. I know that is tough to say but try to get it as regular as possible - lights, water, nutes, air, temp, everything.

I honestly do not know what influences the plants to be female but I know that half is about what happens. :-|
 
TodayIsAGreenday

TodayIsAGreenday

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a female seed (not feminized) can definitely go hermi if not full blown male if you fuck it up enough with lights

weed and other plants can change there sex for the purpose of preserving their species some even say, which means that in some way there aware of each other not sure about that

but if a light traumatized plant can go hermi or male then perhaps a plant that was meant to be one sex whether male or female, can have a better chance at being female because of certain chemical persuasion
 
TodayIsAGreenday

TodayIsAGreenday

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LiveVibe said:
Sounds smelly and mushy gross. Watch out for fruit flies.

I don't know because usually almost always - half are females. Unless you are putting the plants under a lot of stress....make sure you have a regular watering and nute schedule. I know that is tough to say but try to get it as regular as possible - lights, water, nutes, air, temp, everything.

I honestly do not know what influences the plants to be female but I know that half is about what happens. :-|
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their shit is on clock , my first grow was completely noob and half of it was in a window seal in the same pot lol...

but yah they are stress free, my plants definately have a higher standard of living than i do right now, like i said if all 4 of em are female then thats the only way that i would raise an eybrow at this but what could it hurt?

and it actually adds a nice fragrance to the grow room i think as long as they dont get really really black
 
undo

undo

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phosphorus is another key you touched on it before plants need to make seed that is all they are into not any bullshit that we chose to put them through make conditions right for female development and they will out number males vastly it only takes one male to pollinate 100 females in the wild!
 
GrowSpecialist

GrowSpecialist

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undo said:
phosphorus is another key you touched on it before plants need to make seed that is all they are into not any bullshit that we chose to put them through make conditions right for female development and they will out number males vastly it only takes one male to pollinate 100 females in the wild!
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Wow. that was a LONG sentence. Were you out of breath when you finished saying it?
 
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cannabisstoker13

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TodayIsAGreenday said:
okay consider this an experiment... because i dont have two separate places to grow, well just consider my last grow the control of this experiment.

my last grow resulted in 5 males and im going along with my current grow fairly well and would just be devastated if i ended up with no females again... let alone 1

i read on here before tho rotting bananas emit a methane? gas or something that helps persuade plants to be female

so, if i get all females then we can say that having bananas in your grow room can significantly increase your chances of having a female plant... if i don't get any females then we can safely assume that bananas have no affect on your plants sex what soever, anywhere in between there results in the answer being maybe and further testing is needed

and please dont say your experiment is invalid and does not qualify as a true experiment because of etc etc etc

or you need to have more controls and have the conditions being the exact same blah blah blah

i know all this thank you

but wouldnt it be something if i did get all females?

1 banana per plant
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Thats what I was trying to tell these jack asses!
no one beleived me though!
The gas you want is Ethylene (if thats spelt right)...
Breeders have used it in concentrates (now illegal i believe) to force a female to put a few male flowers, which are needed in the production of Feminized seeds... however when applied to seeds it increases the chances of growing females by 10-25%... according to the book "Marijuana cultivation" by Mel Thompson.
 
TodayIsAGreenday

TodayIsAGreenday

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cannabisstoker13 said:
Thats what I was trying to tell these jack asses!
no one beleived me though!
The gas you want is Ethylene (if thats spelt right)...
Breeders have used it in concentrates (now illegal i believe) to force a female to put a few male flowers, which are needed in the production of Feminized seeds... however when applied to seeds it increases the chances of growing females by 10-25%... according to the book "Marijuana cultivation" by Mel Thompson.
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sweet man, thanks for giving the right name on the gas... did you ever try this personally?
 
undo

undo

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not at all but i suppose now i will write things clearly and use short words for all the folks in the states.
 
TodayIsAGreenday

TodayIsAGreenday

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undo said:
phosphorus is another key you touched on it before plants need to make seed that is all they are into not any bullshit that we chose to put them through make conditions right for female development and they will out number males vastly it only takes one male to pollinate 100 females in the wild!
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your definatley missing some words or something in there buddy...

but im sure that every person not from the states understood that perfectly
 
undo

undo

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Phospherous is another key - you touched on it before. Plants need to make seed, that is all they're into and not any other bullshit that we choose to put them through. If you make conditions right for female development they will vastly out number the males. After all, it only takes one male to pollinate 100 females in the wild! To simplify; phospherous is quite an important nutrient in the female flowering cycle, and an abundance of this can help to create more females.
 
GrowSpecialist

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undo said:
not at all but i suppose now i will write things clearly and use short words for all the folks in the states.
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Just use punctuation. When a sentence has no stop (a period, a question mark or an exclamation mark), it will run-on to the next sentence and look like one very LONG sentence.
 
TodayIsAGreenday

TodayIsAGreenday

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hello all its an update time


well they went into 12/12 one week ago today and i have one confirmed female. so as it stands 1 is a female and all 3 of the other ones are looking female as well (being that the preflowers all look exactly the same on all of the plants... unfortunately the g/f is out of town and took the camera with her so i only have shitty shitty shitty cam but you can see sum huge growth none the least...

the camera is way to shitty to get a close up of the first pistils (thats what you call the white hairs right?)

IM SO EXCITED THE CONFIRMED FEMALE IS MY BIGGEST ONE THAT IS SUPER BUSHY AND A SATIVA DOMINANT back right hand corner
 

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okay so i now have 3 confirmed females

everyone except the back left one has showed their sexy little white hairs
and its looking really good that the back left is a girl aswell... thats the one i topped so i suppose its a little behind because of that



BUT FOR ALL OF YOU THAT DONT MIND HAVING A BANANA NEXT TO YOUR PLANT IT CANT HURT

LAST GROW 5/5 MALE
THIS GROW 3/4 FEMALE
1/4 UNCONFIRMED
 
Proph

Proph

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what about the last one greenday did it go female also? This really makes alot of sense once you guys explained it, i dont understand why it is so hard for people to understand lol. Gonna try this on my next for sure, cant hurt right?
 
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