The Banana Method
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Ravioli
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Doesn't sound too promising... Maybe just one of those old wives tales.
Erysichthon
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wow its SO HARD not to make an off color comment about this thread. but i will restrain myself to only saying ive heard nothing about this and can think of nothing that would warrant such claims.
put my banana in your mouth for 100% females
i couldnt help it..
put my banana in your mouth for 100% females
i couldnt help it..
Ravioli
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RaginCajun420
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The theory behind this is that when ripening a banana gives of ethylene gas which has been studied with feminizing cucumber plants. I highly doubt that a banana would give off enough of the gas to feminize it. Plus the study was done on cucumber plants and not marijuana plants. There is some info if you search google. I don't remember if it worked or not on the cucumber plants.
BeverlyRollins69
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1 major problem would be making sure the bananas are sterile when put in your grow room.
Every noticed that there's no fruitflies in your house....then the banana gets old and ripens and if the banana sits in the kitchen long enough fruit flies appear out of nowhere...then one day there's fruitflies in the kitchen?
That's because there's Drosophila eggs on the bananas, too small for us to see. I don't know about feminizing your plants, but bananas give off significant amounts of ethylene and as someone with a Botany degree I'd feel confident in saying that lots of overripe, brown bananas in your grow room would definitely cause your fruit/buds to ripen faster when waiting for the trichomes to turn color. Again, you just wanna make sure those bananas are sterile or there will be fruitflies gallore in your grow room. And that just can't be good for a hydroponic environment.
Every noticed that there's no fruitflies in your house....then the banana gets old and ripens and if the banana sits in the kitchen long enough fruit flies appear out of nowhere...then one day there's fruitflies in the kitchen?
That's because there's Drosophila eggs on the bananas, too small for us to see. I don't know about feminizing your plants, but bananas give off significant amounts of ethylene and as someone with a Botany degree I'd feel confident in saying that lots of overripe, brown bananas in your grow room would definitely cause your fruit/buds to ripen faster when waiting for the trichomes to turn color. Again, you just wanna make sure those bananas are sterile or there will be fruitflies gallore in your grow room. And that just can't be good for a hydroponic environment.
AZHOMEGROWN
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Never heard of it either.
born2killspam
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Farting would release primarily methane, but probably some ethane (ethylene) as well, but no CO2.. On the otherhand, your breath can contribute alot to a small environment..
I hate to say it, but gender is determined at the time of fertilization, just as with humans.. Any shift to produce female flowers would be hermaphroditic in nature.. Hermaphrodites tend to shift toward male though due to the flowering effort being less, since hermaphrodism most likely developed from stressful conditions lowering the probability of natural polination, its logical to assume they tend towards the path of least resistance.. That means anything shifted towards female is quite likely robust, and interesting to say the least.. I would expect it to produce good (unfortunately) masculinized seeds..
I hate to say it, but gender is determined at the time of fertilization, just as with humans.. Any shift to produce female flowers would be hermaphroditic in nature.. Hermaphrodites tend to shift toward male though due to the flowering effort being less, since hermaphrodism most likely developed from stressful conditions lowering the probability of natural polination, its logical to assume they tend towards the path of least resistance.. That means anything shifted towards female is quite likely robust, and interesting to say the least.. I would expect it to produce good (unfortunately) masculinized seeds..
crazyoutlaw
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the whole theory is based on an observation thats someone posted in icmag forums..your supposed to wrap banana peels in paper to absorb the extra moisture..then wrap the SEEDS in some paper so they dont get wet or germ....then you seal the seeds wqith the banana peels in a glass mason jar...then once every day,you open the jar to "burpo" it..kinda like curing the seeds...after about 2 weeks..its supposed to feminize the seeds...alot of people claim it works....i did it once...i can def say tha after a couple days..the seeds looks swollen and more healthy than before...some even turn black..remeber to change the peels eveery 2=3 days so they dont rott...ethylene is a ripening agent..so that can explain why my seeds looked "overripe"...i only flowered once seed out of all my plants..and it turneds out to be FEMALE!!!!i think it works..and i just finished putting my ak48 seeds in a jat with peels right now...ima keepo em in there for 1-2 weeks...remeber you do it with SEEDS not SEEDLINGS....and whoever said sex is determnined when the seeds fvrom..theyr WRONG....you can apply GIBBERLIC ACID to make them female..or there is a product out there thats called SENSA SOAK..and guess what the main ingredient is?????? ETHYLENE!!!!!!!!!!!
growwwww
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The whole idea is that u buy green as fuck bannanas and when it starts to get brown spots u chuck it oout and replace.
I havent tried it but its my first grow and im going to try it.
Peace.
uptosumpn
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seriously.....? it worked??!!! i wanna try it but dont know which way to try....ie; banna method, gibberlic acid, or that sensa soak...
...where can i get some gibberlic acid??
...where can i get some gibberlic acid??born2killspam
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I'd suggest searching out 'colloidal silver' via electrolysis.. You can make it yourself if you have a silver source.. Works as well as gibberelic acid..