Making feminised seeds..........., Anyone ever tried it? Options

[Bad Penny.]

Thanks for that Link Stone,it worked for him,producing the seed part anyway,he isnt using colloidal silver nor Giberellic acid but Photographers STS aka Silver thiosulfate I actually have a cousin who is a pahrmacist,she should be doing this not me Its PP seedbank who are currently working on feminising UK cheese.

[Delta2012]

I read up on feminising techniques about a year ago and most mentioned chemical used was the Silver Thiosulphate Penny, why i mentioned it back there instead of repeating colloidial Silver.

It seems to be the preferred chemical next to Gibberelic, though Gibberelic seems to have been the chemical included in most feminising solutions i believe was found to be the case but mass feminising was Silver Thiosulphate.


Paxus.

[Bad Penny.]

Thanks Delta,Silver Thiosulphate is a photographers chemical so it shouldnt be so difficult to source,I just found this kit....http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/GibberellicAcid.htm

[Delta2012]

jlhudsonseeds seems to check out ok.

Learn something new everyday man.

I already use H2O2 when germinating but didn't know and never tried Malt extract, occurs to me that tip on the page you indicated there, may be usefull for some of the Indica seeds which have hard as hell hulls which require abrading, as well as energising the embryo, softening the hull.

Bit of Marmite/Vegimite.

Paxus.

This post has been edited by Delta2012: May 30 2009, 03:47 PM

[agito]

Good idea for you Lr strains (Dont shoot me now) or hard to clone strains. Wonder crossing 2 seeds from the same pack will give you less chance off a hermie compared to a clone/cone, was a guy on here doing grapefruit with the silver on here dont know how he got on?

[green dreemer]

i have made plenty of my own femmed seeds this was why i got into buying femmed beans
ok what i did was to exposse an individual femal plant tp one hour of light in the middle of the dark cycle so the light went on for 12 hours of for 5/12 hours on for 1 hour then of for 5/12 hours this streses the plant and makes it produce male flowrs you then simply use the plant or just the pollen to mate a normal female plant and bobs your uncle there you have it
no need for nasties like colodial silver or gibberelic acid
this way i have never had a male or a hermie
e2a spelling

This post has been edited by green dreemer: Jun 6 2009, 05:47 PM

[green dreemer]

no mate youhave miss understood i take a batch of ordinary female plants they dont have to be femmed mums just any female plants.
i take one plant out but if you want only seeds then you can do this to the whole batch but i only use one mum as i only want a few seeds.
i then take this ordinary female plant and give it one hour of light in the middle of the dark period this will make it go hermie.
then you can take the pollen from the plant and germinate the other ordinary mums that are still being given a 12/12 light patern or you can then place the plant in amogst the othrers to pollinate the other mums if you want more seeds.
the ordinary mums have then been pollinated by hermie pollen and will produce only female seeds

[green dreemer]

no mate youhave miss understood i take a batch of ordinary female plants they dont have to be femmed mums just any female plants.
i take one plant out but if you want only seeds then you can do this to the whole batch but i only use one mum as i only want a few seeds.
i then take this ordinary female plant and give it one hour of light in the middle of the dark period this will make it go hermie.
then you can take the pollen from the plant and germinate the other ordinary mums that are still being given a 12/12 light patern or you can then place the plant in amogst the othrers to pollinate the other mums if you want more seeds.
the ordinary mums have then been pollinated by hermie pollen and will produce only female seeds

this has been my biggest problem over complcating fings .. so as long as i turn a female to male then the seeds will be female from the pollen of the turned plant is used on any female ???

yes youve got it

[agito]

Got me 99.99 silver this morning so im going to do some femmed short ryders for next outdoor grow probs next year. also i like the idea you can just use a regular 9v battery rather that messing about with 240v adaptors for the silver generator

[Bad Penny.]

Agito,keep us informed how it goes please?

[agito]

Can do i plan on doing a diary so ill post the details when i get the seeds germed no problems

[lazi]

Some people drink colloidial silver because of its perceived health benefits and there is a US senator whose skin has turned blue from drinking it.

My son asked me how long that would take as he thinks it would be cool to turn up to a party or a festival with blue skin.

This post has been edited by lazi: Jun 7 2009, 12:23 PM

[Bad Penny.]

Yup,it would probably do a kids street-cred a world of good looking like a human smurf Dont give him any Lazi,remember,we are using this stuff to try and produce a hermaphroditic plant Best just to use blue body paint for the party or festival,it showers off immediately afterwards,its a lot safer

[agito]

Agito,keep us informed how it goes please?

Ok started my diary now, but a while before i can use the silver

[Chilli-CON-Charl...]

We grew a load dutch passion plants (all fems i think plus some critical mass which were regular seeds), anyways there were one or two male flowers appeared on some plants, (we dont know if it was gentics or just to dam hot and they stressed out and hermied slightly, however as u can imagine the males pollinated the female flowers and thus seed production happened, anyways every seed turned out to be female so in a nutshell we was happy..Dont know it that helps