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leafchick · #1 (**permalink**) 05-06-2008, 11:38 PM

I want to make one of my plant's a hermie so I can make feminized seeds. Is it possible to stress the plant enough to do this, or is it just luck?

I just went into flowering yesterday.

Headless Hornet · #2 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 01:40 AM

no guarantees, but stressing it will most likely work...

Unclenugs · #3 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 02:07 AM

From my research, I've learned that the "soma method" of createing feminized seeds is to force hermi by continuing to flower 1-2 weeks past the date of optimum harvest, where the female will form a special pollen sac that looks kinda like a banana. use this pollen on another female plant to create fem. seeds.

I've also read about using gibberilic acid to create fem. seeds, but dont know much about it.

I've never done this myself, but it seems to work for others.

BKKG · #4 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 03:32 AM

It's easy to stress plants into going hermie (in fact, unless the seed itself came from a hermie plant stress is pretty much the only thing that will cause hermaphroditism).

Messing with the light schedule is probably the easiest way to do this, since playing around with fert concentration or pH can outright kill a plant.

But a true feminized seed is a second generation seed, not the product of a single hermied plant. There was a thread here on GC about it a while ago, if I have time later I'll see if I can dig it up.

P.S. Did you use your photoshop skills on your avatar pic too?

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#1 (permalink) 05-06-2008, 11:38 PM
leafchick Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 53	Can I increase the chance of having a hermie? I want to make one of my plant's a hermie so I can make feminized seeds. Is it possible to stress the plant enough to do this, or is it just luck? I just went into flowering yesterday. __________________ Anything posted under my alias is purely from my imagination. I do not use, manufacture, sell, trade, or transport so-called 'illegal drugs', nor do I condone this practice. Drugs are bad news. All images posted under my alias are rendered in Photoshop. If they seem too detailed, it's the result of my j33t sk1llz, and any accusation that my pictures are photographs of non-fictional objects and places will be taken as a complement of my mind-blowing artistic ability.

#2 (permalink) 05-07-2008, 01:40 AM
Headless Hornet The guest of the tortoise Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 143	no guarantees, but stressing it will most likely work... __________________ My Grow Cab (The Hornet's Nest) Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man.

#3 (permalink) 05-07-2008, 02:07 AM
Unclenugs All Glory to Hypnotoad! Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: So Cal Posts: 465	From my research, I've learned that the "soma method" of createing feminized seeds is to force hermi by continuing to flower 1-2 weeks past the date of optimum harvest, where the female will form a special pollen sac that looks kinda like a banana. use this pollen on another female plant to create fem. seeds. I've also read about using gibberilic acid to create fem. seeds, but dont know much about it. I've never done this myself, but it seems to work for others.

#4 (permalink) 05-07-2008, 03:32 AM
BKKG Mayor of Grass City Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: In the lab Posts: 582	It's easy to stress plants into going hermie (in fact, unless the seed itself came from a hermie plant stress is pretty much the only thing that will cause hermaphroditism). Messing with the light schedule is probably the easiest way to do this, since playing around with fert concentration or pH can outright kill a plant. But a true feminized seed is a second generation seed, not the product of a single hermied plant. There was a thread here on GC about it a while ago, if I have time later I'll see if I can dig it up. P.S. Did you use your photoshop skills on your avatar pic too? __________________ I'm not a stoner, and I'm not a hippie, but my life is absolutely better with marijuana in it than it was without. Last edited by BKKG; 05-07-2008 at 03:38 AM.

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