Banana Method?!?

purplekitty7772008

Well-Known Member
why the arguing guys?
:confused:

lets be peaceful potheads.

smoke a bowl and calm down.
or better yet, take a nice big
bong hit and eat some snacks.

you'll feel better. trust me.
 

tusseltussel

Well-Known Member
why the arguing guys?
:confused:

lets be peaceful potheads.

smoke a bowl and calm down.
or better yet, take a nice big
bong hit and eat some snacks.

you'll feel better. trust me.
the wifes parents are hear visiting i havnt smoked since monday and they are in the other room watching sex in the city the movie, maybe im a lil harsh for those reasons but this character kept goin, i tried to be nice, then they left cause miss miss moffitt called him out on being under 18, guess couldnt handle it. im still willing to help
 

purplekitty7772008

Well-Known Member
the wifes parents are hear visiting i havnt smoked since monday and they are in the other room watching sex in the city the movie, maybe im a lil harsh for those reasons but this character kept goin, i tried to be nice, then they left cause miss miss moffitt called him out on being under 18, guess couldnt handle it. im still willing to help
Lucky you. I haven't smoked since the first (this month). So almost a month now.
Getting clean because I'm looking for a job.

Well, I just hope there will be no more arguing. At least you tried
to help.

I wonder if he was under 18? Guess we'll never know.:bigjoint:
 

johanrichards

Active Member
Just finished an organic agriculture class at school and ethylene gas is used for plenty of applications in farming, from getting pineapples to fruit to ripening bananas. I could see it also having an affect on sex. If anyone has any first hand results please post!!! also this post was awesome to read. (wanted to find results but was kept entertained by bickering and one one bonehead)
 

gotot

Well-Known Member
im willing to help you if ya want, whats yer normal germination technique.. might be as simple as just not putting em in a paper towel and keeping em warm to get your success rate up
i did the same exact thing i always do but with bananas and a different strain and it worked magnificient:bigjoint:
 

chicagokushman23

Well-Known Member
well i have 10 narkush/hindu kush veggin now that i had put in tupperware with banana peels as seeds. hopefully i get all fems. i also have a sog of diesel ryder gowin now that i did the same method with. hope i get a high ratio of fems. i did this for two weeks. didnt get one bug either.
 

gotot

Well-Known Member
that information has been around for manny years and can be found all over... but has nothing to do with this thread this thread is about ppl trying a new method useing ethyleen gas, good info though.
oh, i thought the forum was about raising female rates through the use of ethyleen gas... like you said
Quote:
Originally Posted by tusseltussel
easy ther haus.. ive been with this thread for awhile and thought the idea was not to germ in a bag with bannana peels but to ripen in a bag with bannan peels for a lot longer than 3-5 days.. its not a germing methode, its a ripening method. you are not gonna know if it worked untill you sex them and they all are female then you can say it worked... thats why i say it didnt work because you only had em ripening for 3-5 days and they poped, the op says at least 2 weeks. only reason i was bein a lil bit of a dick was because of the fucking stupid ass negative signature you have. so whats your fucking excuse


Isn't that mentioned in the link?:confused:
"- Treatment of hempseed with ethylene gas will increase the resulting number of female plants by about 50%. Ethylene is produced by certain plants (i.e., bananas, cucumbers and melons), and these can be used to treat hempseed in a simple manner. About two weeks before you plan to sprout the seeds, place them in a paper bag or envelope and put that in a plastic bag with the peels of a ripening banana or cucumber. Replace the peels after a couple of days, and change the bags to prevent mold."
 

tusseltussel

Well-Known Member
oh, i thought the forum was about raising female rates through the use of ethyleen gas... like you said
Quote:
Originally Posted by tusseltussel
easy ther haus.. ive been with this thread for awhile and thought the idea was not to germ in a bag with bannana peels but to ripen in a bag with bannan peels for a lot longer than 3-5 days.. its not a germing methode, its a ripening method. you are not gonna know if it worked untill you sex them and they all are female then you can say it worked... thats why i say it didnt work because you only had em ripening for 3-5 days and they poped, the op says at least 2 weeks. only reason i was bein a lil bit of a dick was because of the fucking stupid ass negative signature you have. so whats your fucking excuse


Isn't that mentioned in the link?:confused:
"- Treatment of hempseed with ethylene gas will increase the resulting number of female plants by about 50%. Ethylene is produced by certain plants (i.e., bananas, cucumbers and melons), and these can be used to treat hempseed in a simple manner. About two weeks before you plan to sprout the seeds, place them in a paper bag or envelope and put that in a plastic bag with the peels of a ripening banana or cucumber. Replace the peels after a couple of days, and change the bags to prevent mold."
im sure thats where the op got ther info from but who has done it and proved it true????????????? if i grew from seed more often i would try it but i dnt so im waiting for sumone on thes thread to come back with results not just information thats been around for many years with no proof..... i didnt read every post on that thread but i dnt think anyone has proven it , so wheres the proof, thats why were here.... oh yea and did you read the whole thread from what i read there was not one posative post adout these methods so who is gonna prove it???????????? you said you germed a shitload of seeds maybe if you were able to keep em from poping for more than a few days you could have been THE ONE who proved it right or wrong and been a hero to all growers ............such a shame...........you could have been a hero:clap:

i have done an interupted dark cycle and got 4 out of 4 females but i only did it once so i couldnt say it worked
 

gotot

Well-Known Member
im sure thats where the op got ther info from but who has done it and proved it true????????????? if i grew from seed more often i would try it but i dnt so im waiting for sumone on thes thread to come back with results not just information thats been around for many years with no proof..... i didnt read every post on that thread but i dnt think anyone has proven it , so wheres the proof, thats why were here.... oh yea and did you read the whole thread from what i read there was not one posative post adout these methods so who is gonna prove it???????????? you said you germed a shitload of seeds maybe if you were able to keep em from poping for more than a few days you could have been THE ONE who proved it right or wrong and been a hero to all growers ............such a shame...........you could have been a hero:clap:

i have done an interupted dark cycle and got 4 out of 4 females but i only did it once so i couldnt say it worked
with all those other factors that could effect the outcome, how are you to know if it works or not though?
 

tusseltussel

Well-Known Member
with all those other factors that could effect the outcome, how are you to know if it works or not though?
thats why im on this thread..... there will always be manny factore but if you put 100 seeds in with a bannan and get 90% females then take 100 of the same strain from the same batch of seed and get 40% female i would venture to say that it works.... your environment needs to be perfect with the same exact conditions for both grows it would prolly take a lot of research and testing to come up with a definate answer... in the long run just having your envirnment right will increase females, then some say the seeds genetics are the determining factor so it would make sense that treating the seed first then haveing a good environment would help but i dnt know for sure more research needs to be done. really i think this thread is prolly dead due to all it has gone through im sure most ppl have unsubscribed....... but im gonna stick with it til sumone has at least one experiment, then you still dnt know if ther envirnment is right cause you see ppl all the time sayin how great ther grow room is then they tell ya how for ventilation they open the door for 20 min a day and are growin with a 23w cfl and a halogen, so really unless a proffessional grower that has credability does it we will never know

so who wants to be a hero


maybe in a few months when i start looking for a new mother i'll try it
 

Cyndrindale

Active Member
I will have my new plants sexed in about two weeks. Here is how I did the "banana method". I placed a bunch of seeds in a small one inch round Tupperware container (the ones meant for salad dressing and such) and left the cover off, then placed that container in a larger Tupperware container with the banana peels and sealed it off. I "burped the container three times a day and changed the peels once a weeks and had zero mold or bug problems. If you are having bug problems or the peels are rotting too fast then the container is not air tight. I did this for three weeks and then germinated as normal. So far the plants seem healthier than the last few grows but I can not say for certain that it was due to the banana peels or maybe just a good batch seeds. Oh yea I only used bag seeds for this experiment and I should start to see signs of sex in two weeks max. This is a great little experiment for us growers to play around with, we could be on the forefront of pioneering a method that could save growers of the future many headaches and money lost on feeding males.
 

GlassFreak

Well-Known Member
k for sure on my next grow im going to try the banana method since ill be growing from seed. i have alot of bag seed and n e thing that may increase results of females is worth a shot to me.
 
Top