That's right, I'm tired of buying seeds all the time and want to produce my own. I have a chocolope strain I love, it comes in feminized seeds. My question is: is there a way to turn the plant male before flowering? What about once it has already flowered? I'm talking about cloning a flowering plant, revegging it and then do something to turn it to male. Possible?
Can I turn my feminized/flowering plants into males?
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MickFoster
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You can't turn a female plant male.
What is the purpose of turning a plant male?
Male plants don't produce seeds.
You can use the colloidal silver method or rodelization to make feminized seeds.
What is the purpose of turning a plant male?
Male plants don't produce seeds.
You can use the colloidal silver method or rodelization to make feminized seeds.
TheManicOrganicDK
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Complete Guide To Using STS To Make Fem Seeds
Recently i have been searching for a decent STS fem guide and found a very comprehensive one at 420mag, so thought i´d share it here. So, i didnt write the guide, i am just quite good at copy/paste. :-) Make Your Own Excellent Quality, Feminized Pollen/Seeds Using Silver Thiosulfate Solution...
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It's not oregano
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I followed the simple to follow advice on this thread by @Budzbuddha and ended up making a female plant turn male, collected the resulting pollen and then pollinated two other plants and got hundreds of seeds.
Seed making made easy
Seed making made easy
xtsho
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Yes you can take a clone, reveg it, and use one of several different chemicals to reverse it to produce pollen, pollinate a female, and make feminized seed. One method is in the post linked by @TheManicOrganicDK
Thanks so much for your reply, guys. I also found this really good guide> https://www.growbarato.net/blog/en/how-to-feminize-cannabis-seeds/#:
I have one question, though. The guide says you should spray the STS compound 4 or 5 days after flipping the lights, but what happens if you're growing autos, when should you apply the STS?
I have one question, though. The guide says you should spray the STS compound 4 or 5 days after flipping the lights, but what happens if you're growing autos, when should you apply the STS?
xtsho
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I spray photoperiod plants prior to flipping, at the flip, and after the flip in tervals of 5 - 7 days. With an auto you're going to want to start spraying before they start flowering. You should probably start at about 3 - 4 weeks with similar intervals every 5 - 7 days until pollen sacs start forming. I have never reversed an auto but that's what I would do. I'm going to try it this summer on auto's I grow outside. Someone that's reversed an auto might have a better schedule.
Good luck.
Jimbo the Gael
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Hope you're far away from any outdoor growers running autos. I'll be running a mix this year, autos and photos outdoors. Problem for me is a bunch of LPs have greenhouses and outdoor grows around here, and some aren't as careful as they should be. Picked about 20 seeds out of a Blue Cheese plant so far, and I'll certainly find more after I make hash with it. My other outdoor plants had a few seeds in them too.
I'm not too bothered. I don't mind seeds, but my neighbour was pretty pissed off.
xtsho
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I had planned on bringing the reversed plant indoors under my T5 fixture once it started showing pollen sacs so I could collect the pollen in a controlled manner. I'll then bring the target female indoors to pollinate by hand before putting it back outside.
Jimbo the Gael
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Do you mean potassium salts of fatty acids? Like insecticidal soap? I used it once. It worked, but it smells. I suppose in low concentrations it would be okay. Certainly no worse for your plants than dish soap.
Edit: I used it as a surfactant for potassium bicarbonate, I have no idea how it would work with any of the chemicals for producing feminized pollen.
Edit: I used it as a surfactant for potassium bicarbonate, I have no idea how it would work with any of the chemicals for producing feminized pollen.
xtsho
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You don't need it.
But if I have potassium soap would it help to provide better results?
printer
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I never took too close to one of the outdoor plants, It was disappointing as I wanted to compare growing this one outdoors as compared to the plants I had indoors. But in the end,
We will see what they can do, I am germinating some of them now. I need to produce my own CBD seeds as I only have my clones. Going to have to try the above.
Jimbo the Gael
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I'm a little too high to understand exactly what you mean here?
Shitty about the seeds. First outdoor grow I had was ruined by one of my neighbours, he had a male plant that seeded the entire neighbourhood. I was majorly pissed off. Upside is I have about 3000 seeds. Hindu kush x cherry bomb, blueberry kush x cherry bomb, Master kush x cherry bomb, and black domina x cherry bomb.
printer
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I never it was pollinated and growing seeds. Sorry. I just have a light buzz on.
Jimbo the Gael
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More than a light buzz here, lol.
xtsho
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I don't know if it would help or not. I've never used a surfactant and have been successful every time. I prefer to keep things simple so that if something doesn't work you don't have as many factors to deal with when determining what caused the failure. I don't see any reason to use a surfactant and I've never seen it mentioned when doing research on using STS to reverse a female plant.
As for better results, I get excellent results with just the STS solution. I don't see how they could be any better.
Thanks for the advice, bro. Do you spray the sts? I was thinking on soraying the lower leafs only and with the pollen they would produce fertilize the top forming flowers. Is this the way to go?
xtsho
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Yes you can spray just part of the plant and pollinate the rest. Many people do just that. I prefer to use 2 clones. Spray one and pollinate the other. I do it that way because I like to produce enough pollen so I can save some in case I want to use it on other strains in the future. But the method you describe will work just fine to make feminized seeds using just one plant.
Good luck.