Can I feminize my seeds?

[VerdantGreen]

I have a batch of non-feminized seeds, (they end up as males and females). My big question is if there is something I can do to make the seeds feminized? I saw this ad (link below) where you could soak the seeds, then they are feminized. But does it work? Does anyone have experience or know how to feminize my seeds?

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That won't work.
So you have a lot of seeds ? If you germinate a bunch of seeds together and treat them the same... then when they have a few leaves, discard the tallest 50% of the young plants , you will usually find that most of those discarded were the males, and the shorter ones that you kept are the females.
This is not 100% accurate but a lot more accurate than many would think. You will still need to keep an eye on them but you should at least have mostly females.
VG

 

[So Hai]

ethephon is said to be able to reverse a male but I have never seen anyone actually do it

 

[mr.brunch]

Soaking the seeds in calmag and then hitting them with high P/K will make them grow plants that produce seeds without any pollination and the seeds will all be fem.

Sounds more like that procedure would stress the hell out of them and cause a self pollination resulting in fem seeds

 

[Cvh]

Here's an excellent guide on making your own STS (which is very easy and cheap) and also on how to produce female seeds. STS is the industry standard.

Tutorial - DIY STS Mixing/Using Guide for Feminized Pollen/Seeds R.C.Clarke Method as Base

Feminized Seeds are Awesome Hermaphrodite plants are not awesome. Fortunately, it's possible to create cleanly produced feminized pollen. This pollen can be used to create seeds which are 99.9% female. As long as logical safeguards are taken, these seeds will not be any more sensitive to...

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[xtsho]

Sounds more like that procedure would stress the hell out of them and cause a self pollination resulting in fem seeds

I wasn't being serious. Calmag and P/k will not cause a non-pollinated plant to make feminized seeds.

You'll need to reverse a female using STS or CS to make feminized seeds.

 

[mr.brunch]

I wasn't being serious. Calmag and P/k will not cause a non-pollinated plant to make feminized seeds.

You'll need to reverse a female using STS or CS to make feminized seeds.

Sorry…. You never know these days

 

[JetLife175]

Really? do you have a link to this? sounds unlikely.

Beat me to it. I'd like to see the science behind this myself.

 

[xtsho]

 

[xtsho]

Beat me to it. I'd like to see the science behind this myself.

I'm sorry. I thought my humor was evident. But from some of the stuff people claim it's understandable. I probably should have included a "grin" emoji to identify it as sarcasm.

 

[GMT]

ethephon is said to be able to reverse a male but I have never seen anyone actually do it

Yeah it's pretty well documented scientifically, but I haven't seen a demo on here. A few people have claimed to have done it, most notably Sam. If you selfed a male in this way I guess you'd get 2:1 male to female seeds. How viable the seeds would be I have no idea. Theoretically it's sound.

 

[Hammerhead]

I have seen a male reversal thread on another site. In the end, the seeds were not viable.

https://www.beanbasement.nl/threads/male-reversal.1865/

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Male clones transformed to Female to judge male smoking quality

Has anyone done this? -SamS Fertile female flowers can be induced in male plants by ethephon (2-chloroethanephosphonic acid) and NIA 10637 (ethylhydrogen-l-propylphosphonate). Interestingly, stamens could be seen arising even from fruits. Stopping the application of growth regulators caused...

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[EnjoyingLife]

There's a thread on.... OG? that talks about temps, nutes etc playing a role on having more females pop up vs males when it comes to regular seeds.
If I had my other phone I'd post the link...

 

[Cvh]

Make plants can indeed also be reversed. This will not result in all male seed but in regular seed (male and female). This because of the XY x XY chromosomes cross of male plants.

Our very own member/moderator Sam The Skunkman has indeed provided some information about this how this can be accomplished. (But I'm not so sure he actually did it himself).

Male Cannabis plants can be reversed to give female flowers (with XY chromosomes) using the plant hormone Ethephon.

Here is a thread about it by Sam The Skunkman.

Male clones transformed to Female to judge male smoking quality

Has anyone done this? -SamS Fertile female flowers can be induced in male plants by ethephon (2-chloroethanephosphonic acid) and NIA 10637 (ethylhydrogen-l-propylphosphonate). Interestingly, stamens could be seen arising even from fruits. Stopping the application of growth regulators caused...

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